Tom Banse
Regional Correspondent
About
Tom Banse covers national news, business, science, public policy, Olympic sports, and human interest stories across Washington state. Now semi-retired, Banse is an Olympia-based reporter with more than three decades of experience covering the Pacific Northwest. Most of his career was spent with public radio's Northwest News Network, but now in semi-retirement his work appears on multiple nonprofit news outlets including KUOW. His recent areas of focus range from transportation, U.S.-Canada borderlands, the Northwest region's planned hydrogen hub, and emergency preparedness.
Previously, Tom covered state government and the Washington Legislature for 12 years. He got his start in radio at WCAL-FM, a public station in southern Minnesota. Reared in Seattle, Tom graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with a degree in American Studies.
Location: Olympia
Languages: English, German
Stories
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Business
Canadian shoppers use Washington border towns for Prime orders
Amazon customers and other mail-order patrons are turning small towns on the northern border into the P.O. box for Canada.
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Almost everything leaving Northwest ports for China soon to be hit with tariffs
The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that it would impose tariffs on $60 billion more of U.S. exports. This widens the range of Pacific Northwest...
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Olympic mountain goats are being moved by helicopter, ferry, and crate
Wildlife biologists have relocated the first two dozen of hundreds of non-native mountain goats slated for removal from Olympic National Park. The...
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Northwest's ancient earthquakes may help predict future quake risk
One way to predict the risk of earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest is to look at how often they occurred in the past – and, for several groups of...
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Washington wildlife agency gets green light to kill cattle-hunting wolf
Washington state government marksmen now have clearance to go out this weekend to shoot a wolf from a pack that has been preying on cattle in the...
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Ocean scientists count 1,000 methane seeps off Pacific Northwest coast
The bubble streams could be a sign of offshore energy potential, represent a greenhouse gas threat — or be neither of those things at all.
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Have you planned for number two after the Big One?
Horror tales from recent earthquakes overseas are moving people in Seattle, Portland and along the Pacific Northwest coast to give a crap about where to...
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Take A Gander At The Earthquake-Hardened Building Now Under Construction In Newport
Construction is underway on the Oregon coast for a new earthquake-hardened marine science building. It will have Oregon's first tsunami vertical...
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Pacific Northwest cities hire outside vendors to police Airbnb-type rentals
The cities of Portland and Salem made eyebrow-raising discoveries earlier this month when they compared the number of formally licensed short-term...
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Coastal towns grapple with the growth of Airbnb-type rentals
Hot housing markets in major cities like Seattle and Portland have pushed the cities to regulate short-term rentals like Airbnb. But small Pacific...