After FEMA denial, Small Business Administration loans offer new avenue for Whitman County fire recovery

by admin | Feb 11, 2021 | Stories

This article first appeared in The Spokesman Review on February 11, 2021. By Emma Epperly, emmae@spokesman.com (509) 459-5122 The Small Business Administration will offer federal disaster low-interest loans to individuals and businesses affected by devastating...

Malden mayor confident President Biden will sign wildfire relief following lawmakers’ calls

by admin | Jan 24, 2021 | Stories

This article first appeared on January 22, 2021 at KREM2. By Kaitlin Riordan. Washington lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to sign Governor Jay Inslee’s requests for a Major Disaster Declaration and supplemental federal assistance. MALDEN, Wash. — Pine City...

Trump is blocking aid to Malden, Pine City fire victims over beef with Inslee, McMorris Rodgers aide says

by admin | Jan 17, 2021 | Stories

This article first appeared in The Spokesman-Review, on Saturday, January 16 2021. By Emma Epperly and Orion Donovan-Smith from The Spokesman-Review More than four months after a wildfire tore through Malden and Pine City, President Donald Trump is withholding federal...

Three months after the fire, Malden’s recovery effort is on the shoulders of local leaders

by admin | Dec 7, 2020 | Stories

This article first appeared in The Spokesman-Review on December 5, 2020. By Emma Epperly, emmae@spokesman.com,(509) 459-5122 The effort to rebuild Malden and Pine City began at the lone, surviving picnic table. Town hall was gone. So was the library. And post office....

Wildfire-Ravaged Farming Town In Limbo As It Awaits Aid To Rebuild

by admin | Nov 29, 2020 | Stories

This story first aired on November 25, 20203:55 PM ET, on NPR’s All Things Considered by Kirk Siegler/NPR 2-Minute Listen Download  When historic wildfires overwhelmed the West Coast in September, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington followed...