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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is making up to $5 million in grant funding from Montana’s bed tax fund available to…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte is making up to $5 million in grant funding from Montana’s bed tax fund available to…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he will push for a state constitutional amendment to…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are warning recreationists to be wary of risky waterways as hot weather hits part of the Pacific Northwest. The…
Continue ReadingBy DANIEL BEEKMAN The Seattle Times SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has started work on a new pedestrian bridge that will connect Pike Place Market to the…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and ADAM BEAM Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Democratic leaders across the nation vowed Friday to help women who travel to…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The overturning of Roe v. Wade by the U.S. Supreme Court with a 6-3 vote on Friday triggers a…
Continue ReadingBURLEY, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman has been sentenced to up to 12 years in prison for attempted murder after prosecutors said she put a plastic…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon said Thursday it is providing $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s 44 counties will receive a combined $35.8 million under a program intended to offset…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state jury on Wednesday awarded the Lummi Indian tribe $595,000 over the 2017 collapse…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged Congress to suspend federal gasoline and diesel taxes for three months and urged states to do…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service has approved a new rule waiving fees for unauthorized grazing under…
Continue ReadingMEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man who illegally imported and exported hundreds of live scorpions was sentenced in federal court for violating the…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Revenue projections for Washington state increased by about $1.46 billion more than expected through the current two-year…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (AP) — Throngs of tourists gleefully watched the legendary Old…
Continue ReadingBy SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Firefighter groups are applauding the Biden administration’s steps to raise pay but warn…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Some Oregon business groups are suing over the state’s new job site rules mandating that employers take steps to protect…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Cooler and wetter weather this spring has alleviated drought concerns in much of Idaho but…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — While the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a 2018 state law that…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials on Tuesday voted to sell at auction a 14-acre “high-end” island in Payette…
Continue ReadingDan Rinaldi, a firefighter in Providence, Rhode Island, leaned on his state’s fresh seafood for this dish. He says battered squid tossed with…
Continue ReadingBy MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — America has perfected the stressful TV cooking competition, pitting amateur or professional…
Continue ReadingRENO, Nev. (AP) — Police in northern Nevada say a 47-year-old man is sought in the weekend shooting death of his wife and the wounding of a…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle is facing a projected $117 million gap between revenues and expected expenditures in 2023, and the city’s budget chief…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press GARDINER, Mont. (AP) — Most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within the next two…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press FROMBERG, Mont. (AP) — With Yellowstone National Park pushing to reopen to tourists more…
Continue ReadingBy EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer When the gender equity legislation known as Title IX became law in 1972, the politics of transgender sports was not…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has increased the Port of Morrow’s groundwater contamination fine to $2.1…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A labor contractor denied 165 farm laborers more than $83,000 collectively in overtime pay for cleaning the Gorge Amphitheatre in…
Continue ReadingBy KALIE GREENBERG, JULIE CALHOUN KING5 SEATTLE (AP) — While the nation waits for the Supreme Court’s opinion on a blockbuster abortion case that…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Seattle tech worker of several charges related to a…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee is now among a growing number of people saying elected Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. is adding $103 million this year for wildfire risk reduction and burned-area…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle resident critically injured by a driver during a Black Lives Matter demonstration has filed a lawsuit against the state,…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — As punishing floods tore through Yellowstone National Park and…
Continue ReadingNEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — Two members of the a school board in Oregon have announced their resignations at a board meeting this week, citing…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials have reported the first probable case of monkeypox in the state. The Oregon Health Authority said in a…
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The organizer of a weekend gun show scheduled at an arena north of Seattle has postponed the event after public concerns that…
Continue ReadingOROFINO, Idaho (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced $9 million for 40 projects in Idaho and seven other Western states for…
Continue ReadingKEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Nez Perce Tribe and U.S. Forest Service have signed an agreement allowing the two to team up…
Continue ReadingSTAR, Idaho (AP) — Police in a small southwestern Idaho town shot and killed a 39-year-old man Wednesday morning, authorities said. Star Police…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — This gateway town to Yellowstone National Park has become a dead end, a…
Continue ReadingSANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — A judge has dropped a cannibalism charge against a northern Idaho man after finding that there wasn’t enough evidence…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Devastating floodwaters that wiped out miles of roads and hundreds…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials say the impacts of climate change, including more…
Continue ReadingRED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone official says park has evacuated all visitors except a small group of backpackers following massive…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Six environmental groups sued officials of the Biden administration Tuesday, saying a…
Continue ReadingLAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (AP) — A Democratic candidate for Oregon House District 38 has won his party’s primary by just 28 votes. The OregonianLive…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A popular state-owned recreation area in southeastern Idaho will close to camping and utility terrain vehicles due to visitors…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As hate speech targeting LGBTQ people increases among some far-right influencers and others…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as…
Continue ReadingTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say three members of a Puyallup, Washington, family have been charged with a series of misdemeanors for their role…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly…
Continue ReadingBy AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday,…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Citing low wages and COVID risk, King County and the City of Seattle will grant $7 million in one-time payments to child care…
Continue ReadingKENT, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say officers in Kent, Washington, fatally shot a man who had stopped a car in the middle of a roadway, then drew a…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced Monday…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on whether the state’s constitution…
Continue ReadingSAN LORENZO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities were investigating a possible hate crime after a group of men allegedly shouted homophobic and anti-LGBTQ…
Continue ReadingBy LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SAM METZ Associated Press After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern…
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Forensic psychiatric evaluations of Caleb Sharpe, who pleaded guilty to killing a classmate and injuring others in a shooting…
Continue ReadingBOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) — Officials in Oregon’s Morrow County along the Columbia River have declared a local state of emergency after private…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The rain that fell on the Seattle area Thursday was so much that records for the date were set across all six climate-reporting…
Continue ReadingIDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Officials in the eastern Idaho city of Idaho Falls have agreed to pay $11.7 million to a man who spent about two decades…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a U.S. Army…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing Irish hiker in Grand Teton National…
Continue ReadingMERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) — A man involved in two shootings with law enforcement agencies and who stole two vehicles fleeing from police was shot and…
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