Cascade PBS (Formerly KCTS 9)

News Summary:

Cascade PBS opened submissions for its Origins grant on March 4, 2026, offering funding to Pacific Northwest and Canadian filmmakers for docuseries that reflect the region's makeup from an insider's perspective, grounded in ancestry, connection, culture, influence, and rootedness. Previously, on December 22, 2025, its program "The Newsfeed," hosted by Paris Jackson, detailed a new series where Cascade PBS partnered with KNKX to review thousands of pages of ChatGPT conversation logs from city officials in Everett and Bellingham, examining artificial intelligence use by Washington cities and departments for government business. Concurrently, "The Newsfeed" reported on Washington's new rent stabilization law, which for the first time in the state's history, includes a 5% annual limit on rent increases for manufactured home owners. Earlier, on November 14, 2025, Knute Berger and Rachel Belle explored Seattle's culinary history, from teriyaki to clam nectar, in "Mossback's Northwest: Taste-testing iconic Seattle foods past & present," a segment that updated topics from previous episodes as part of its "Upon Further Review" series. This followed October 16, 2025, when the Cascade PBS Investigations team concluded four years of reporting, noting its impact on state law and policy reforms in Washington by casting light on youth labor violations, housing abuses, and pandemic-aid fraud throughout 2025.