It's the end of the school year for many colleges and universities around the northwest.

A couple of graduates at a Walla Walla school went out with a breaking news bang.

Last fall, reporters at Whitman College's student paper, The Whitman Wire, published an investigation into the school's alleged mishandling of sexual violence and prevention.

The students later received a cease and desist letter and now have it published in full.

For the full report on that.

Find our Walla Walla community reporter Susan Shains article online.

Cannabis is a $1.1 billion industry in Washington.

There are all sorts of careers related to it and more higher education opportunities.

Gonzaga University has partnered up with a company called Green Flower to offer certificate programs in cannabis health care and medicine, as well as cannabis compliance and risk management.

Here's Green Flower CEO Max Simon.

“They take these programs, mostly because their patients are asking them information and they don't really have good credible knowledge and oftentimes, you know, in medical schools or traditional schools, these subjects are not taught at all.” Find out what other colleges, and even a state agency, offer certificate programs for cannabis.

That's online at NWPB.org.

Wildfire season is a months-long endeavor in the northwest, and much of the nation and has a wildfire coverage plan from now through October.

And a one stop shop webpage with air quality links to fire maps and helpful reminders on fire season lingo.

For NWPB, teams are scheduled every day of the week to keep an eye on the fires, and we'll let you know about ones that block roads, threaten property or human life.

Go to NWPB.org/Wildfire-Coverage for those Northwest fire resources and reminders in English and Spanish.

How is one Washington County making progress on homelessness?

Collaboration.

Join NWPB to explore that county's work, as well as our work in reporting on it at a free event in Walla Walla.

This is part of NWPBs efforts to report not just on the problems in our communities, but how they're being addressed and what's working.

‘Portraits of the Housed will be on June 12th from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Walla Walla Public Library.

Hope to see you there.