About this episode

This episode features a daily roundup of top stories including health inspections at a detention facility, increased drug arrests by Seattle police, and research on bacteria affecting apple orchards.

State officials are demanding that health inspectors be allowed inside an immigration detention facility in Tacoma, Seattle police have increased drug-possession arrests despite a recent law meant to bring arrests down, and WSU researchers are fighting bacteria that's threatening our apple orchards. It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Paige Browning.

People in this episode

Host: Paige Browning

Topics covered

• health inspections
• immigration detention
• drug possession
• bacteria
• apple orchards
• news roundup

Keywords

• health inspectors
• immigration
• drug arrests
• bacteria
• apple orchards
• news

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KUOW, WSU

Places: Tacoma

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