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By CLAIRE RUSH and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Local governments in Oregon can’t declare themselves Second…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Local governments in Oregon can’t declare themselves Second…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A record 193 homeless people died in Oregon’s Multnomah County, home…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill criminalizing gender-affirming healthcare for minors overwhelmingly passed the Idaho…
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Bronny James, the son of NBA career scoring leader LeBron James, was one of 26 players announced Tuesday as members…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Raequan Battle’s 15 points helped Montana State defeat Idaho State 58-52 on Saturday night. Battle added five…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Tyson Degenhart scored 20 points, Naje Smith added a double-double and Boise State beat Wyoming 75-63 on Saturday night.…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Ethan Price scored 16 points and Eastern Washington ran its win streak to 15 with a 73-66 victory over Idaho on Saturday.…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID SHARP Associated Press The IRS announced Friday that most relief checks issued by states last year aren’t subject to federal taxes,…
Continue ReadingBy MARGERY A. BECK Associated Press LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers are following the path of other conservative states in considering a…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Dischon Thomas had 16 points to lead Montana to a 69-61 victory over Idaho State on Thursday night. Thomas was 6-of-12…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court has again refused to overturn a lower court ruling blocking a voter-approved gun measure from taking…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A U.S. judge has upheld Washington’s residency requirement for involvement in the…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A thirst for rare bottles of bourbon appears set to cost the executive director and other top…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A herd of city goats well-known in Portland, Oregon, were temporarily set free Tuesday morning in what appeared to be an act…
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The city of Eugene, Oregon, will join other local governments throughout the country in phasing out gas appliances in some…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Thirty news organizations have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to overturn a gag order in a…
Continue ReadingFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Brayden Parker scored 17 points to help Idaho State fend off Northern Arizona 75-70 on Monday night. Parker added five…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Junior Ballard scored 20 points and Dillon Jones made a layup at the buzzer in the second overtime to lift Weber State over…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Divant’e Moffitt scored 30 points as Idaho beat Sacramento State 82-76 in overtime on…
Continue ReadingBy HEATHER ARNDT ANDERSON Oregon Public Broadcasting ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) — When brothers Golden and Francis Nephi “Neef” Grigg began renting a…
Continue ReadingBy BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nathan Mensah scored 17 points as No. 22 San Diego State raced past Boise State 72-52 Friday…
Continue ReadingHOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — A man who allegedly fired gunshots Thursday in a busy area of Hood River and then barricaded himself in his house for hours…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — A bill introduced in the Oregon Legislature that would ban lawmakers from hiring family members as aides has sparked a debate…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration took a first step Friday toward ending federal protections for…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — US takes first step toward lifting protections for grizzly bears in some Western states, which would open door to…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Cameron Parker scored 22 points as Portland State beat Idaho 69-66 on Thursday. The Vandals missed a…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon man has been charged with murder in the killing of a man who had accused him of stalking after the defendant…
Continue ReadingHOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) — Gunshots broke out as police in Hood River, Oregon, responded to a call at a home in the scenic vacation town, prompting an…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than 600 city employees in Portland, Oregon, walked off the job on Thursday as they went on strike for better pay.…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers introduced a bill Wednesday that would eliminate Idaho’s only bipartisan…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee has tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time. Inslee’s office said in a statement…
Continue ReadingCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Max Rice scored 22 points and Boise State beat Air Force 59-52 on Tuesday night. Rice added seven rebounds for the…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s recently inaugurated Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek plans to ask…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Police have released the name of a Seattle police officer who was responding to a medical call when his patrol SUV hit and killed…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man at the center of an intense police search in Oregon after a violent…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Tyson Degenhart scored 22 points as Boise State beat Colorado State 80-59 on Saturday night. Degenhart…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Brock Mackenzie scored 30 points as Idaho State beat Idaho 95-91 in overtime on Saturday. Mackenzie was 11-of-19 shooting,…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A man suspected of breaking into a Seattle home has refused to come clean about his intentions, even though police found him fully…
Continue ReadingTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — One of the two men charged with vandalizing electrical substations in Washington state over the holidays to cover a burglary…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN RYAN KUOW SEATTLE (AP) — The largest glacier between the high peaks of Mount Rainier and Glacier Peak has melted away after a long battle…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Four white men with white supremacist ties were sentenced in federal court in Seattle Friday for a 2018 assault on a Black DJ at a…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Inside a warehouse at the industrial Port of Portland lies what some…
Continue ReadingCHENEY, Wash. (AP) — Angelo Allegri scored 17 points as Eastern Washington beat Idaho State 81-68 on Thursday night for the Eagles’ 11th…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Dillon Jones had 21 points in Weber State’s 73-65 win against Idaho on Thursday night. Jones also contributed 14…
Continue ReadingYAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — The names of the three people killed in a random shooting Tuesday at a convenience store in Yakima, Washington, have been…
Continue ReadingBy RIO YAMAT and ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Police in southern Oregon were searching Thursday for a man accused of torturing…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A jury has awarded an Oregon woman $1 million in damages after finding she was discriminated against by a gas station…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An effort to balance what is considered the nation’s most regressive state tax code came…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Abortion rights proposals have been front and center in Olympia, Washington, this week as state lawmakers heard hours of…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho lawmaker has introduced legislation that would ask voters to change the state’s…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A state lawmaker in Oregon is using thousands of pages of redacted documents he sought for…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Marcus Shaver Jr. scored 16 points as Boise State beat Fresno State 63-53 on Tuesday night. Shaver added six rebounds for the…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have identified the man who was shot and killed by a police officer on Monday as a 32-year-old Boise resident.…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Police located the suspect in the random killing of three people at a convenience store in Yakima,…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A bill that would ban the sale of kangaroo parts has been introduced in the Oregon Legislature, taking aim at sports apparel…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho. (AP) — A Boise police officer shot and killed a man Monday while law enforcement officials were trying to take the man into custody…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is launching a new abortion hotline offering free legal advice to…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH and HARM VENHUIZEN Associated Press/Report for America MADISON, Wis. (AP) — From beach cities to snow-covered streets, abortion…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Cameron Parker had 17 points, Isaiah Johnson scored 16 and Portland State beat Idaho State 72-65 on Saturday night. Parker…
Continue ReadingGREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Dalton Knecht scored 34 points to spark Northern Colorado to a 73-67 victory over Idaho on Saturday night. Knecht had seven…
Continue ReadingMEDFORD, Ore (AP) — An Oregon-based media group has announced it will start a newspaper in a southern Oregon city that saw a longstanding newspaper…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jamal Mashburn Jr. led New Mexico with 25 points and Morris Udeze scored the game-winning layup…
Continue ReadingBy LISA BAUMANN The Associated Press A bill under consideration in Washington would make it the second state in the country to lower the legal limit…
Continue ReadingBy JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the design for what will be the United States’…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Twenty-two regional and national news organizations have formed a coalition to ask a judge to…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Brayden Parker scored 22 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Idaho State beat Sacramento State 65-61 on Thursday night.…
Continue ReadingST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge says a couple accused in a bizarre triple murder case will not be allowed to meet face-to-face to talk…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, the most senior member of the Council and the city’s only elected socialist, will not…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization has had a rocky start, but Secretary of…
Continue ReadingWARRENTON, Ore. (AP) — A baby gray whale washed up on the northern Oregon coast on Wednesday, making it the third dead whale to beach on the…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. is directing $930 million toward reducing wildfire dangers in 10 western states…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Medical Commission has accused a medical doctor in Idaho of violating standards related to COVID-19 and…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Investigators seized stained bedding, strands of what looked like hair and a single glove —…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A school district in Oregon has quietly rescinded its ban on educators displaying symbols of…
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — A bestselling author of crime stories and other nonfiction works is working on a book about the stabbing deaths last fall of four…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Max Rice’s 29 points helped Boise State defeat Nevada 77-62 on Tuesday night. Rice also contributed five rebounds for the…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court has brushed aside the final remaining legal hurdle in the way of a $4 billion dividend by…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers in both the Democratic and Republican parties named housing,…
Continue ReadingPROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from across the nation were cheated out of a…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Divant’e Moffitt scored 32 points and Idaho held off Montana State 74-70 on Monday night. Moffitt had seven assists for…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A 40-foot sperm whale that beached on Oregon’s northwestern coast…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — A record 310 homeless people died in the Seattle area last year, highlighting the region’s struggle to house the thousands of…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — Chibuzo Agbo had 18 points in Boise State’s 85-68 victory against Wyoming on Saturday. Agbo also…
Continue ReadingMISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Brandon Whitney’s 18 points helped Montana defeat Idaho State 84-55 on Saturday night. Whitney was 7-of-9 shooting…
Continue ReadingCHENEY, Wash. (AP) — Angelo Allegri scored 18 points and Eastern Washington beat Idaho 95-74 on Saturday night for its seventh straight win.…
Continue ReadingBy CASEY MARTIN KUOW SEATTLE (AP) — The homelessness crisis in Seattle is often highly visible, with many people living in camps, tents, and RVs.…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The state attorney general has petitioned the Oregon Supreme Court to either toss out a circuit judge’s rulings that…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers will take up a full slate of legislation on pressing and…
Continue ReadingBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Raequan Battle scored 19 points as Montana State beat Idaho State 81-68 on Thursday. Battle was 7-of-15 shooting and went 5…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Jack Smith, an Associated Press photographer who captured unforgettable shots of the eruption of…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The criminal case against a man accused of stabbing to death four University of Idaho…
Continue ReadingUNION, Ore. (AP) — Oregon officials approved Thursday the killing of two wolves in a new pack that they said have been attacking calves in the…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tyson Degenhart’s 17 points helped Boise State defeat UNLV 84-66 on Wednesday night. Degenhart added…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press The man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students will have a preliminary hearing in late…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Colorado dentist accused of setting a fire that damaged a transformer at a solar power array…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Nearly two months after four University of Idaho students were killed near campus — and two…
Continue ReadingBy CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s newly sworn-in Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek signed three…
Continue ReadingHELENA, Mont. (AP) — The owner of a former vermiculite mine in northwestern Montana that spread harmful asbestos in and around the town of Libby…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged with conspiring to kill her two children and her new husband’s late wife…
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