The city sold its water. No one wrote it down.

The Narrows outflow, 1988

Records obtained by the Review show the utility board approved a forty-year lease in one unminuted session — then spent two years insisting no such document existed.

By Dana Okonjo & Peter Vaszary Documents obtained under the Open Records Act after an eleven-month appeal.

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Business

Freight rates fall for a sixth straight week

Carriers that added capacity in the spring are discounting to fill it. The shipping index has given back its 2025 gain.

By Ruth Halvorsen · Page 14

Science

The lichen survey that redrew the northern tree line

Two decades of volunteer records, digitised by a retired postmaster, now anchor the valley’s best warming evidence.

By Amir Sanpetro · Page 27