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By 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…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park will partially reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday, after catastrophic flooding destroyed bridges and roads…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has increased the Port of Morrow’s groundwater contamination fine to $2.1…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press Created in 1872 as the United States was recovering from the Civil War, Yellowstone was the…

SEATTLE (AP) — A labor contractor denied 165 farm laborers more than $83,000 collectively in overtime pay for cleaning the Gorge Amphitheatre in…

By KALIE GREENBERG, JULIE CALHOUN KING5 SEATTLE (AP) — While the nation waits for the Supreme Court’s opinion on a blockbuster abortion case that…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Seattle tech worker of several charges related to a…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee is now among a growing number of people saying elected Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. is adding $103 million this year for wildfire risk reduction and burned-area…

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle resident critically injured by a driver during a Black Lives Matter demonstration has filed a lawsuit against the state,…

By MATTHEW BROWN and AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — As punishing floods tore through Yellowstone National Park and…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials have reported the first probable case of monkeypox in the state. The Oregon Health Authority said in a…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The organizer of a weekend gun show scheduled at an arena north of Seattle has postponed the event after public concerns that…

KEITH 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…

STAR, Idaho (AP) — Police in a small southwestern Idaho town shot and killed a 39-year-old man Wednesday morning, authorities said. Star Police…

By MATTHEW BROWN and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — This gateway town to Yellowstone National Park has become a dead end, a…

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — A judge has dropped a cannibalism charge against a northern Idaho man after finding that there wasn’t enough evidence…

By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Devastating floodwaters that wiped out miles of roads and hundreds…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials say the impacts of climate change, including more…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Six environmental groups sued officials of the Biden administration Tuesday, saying a…

LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. (AP) — A Democratic candidate for Oregon House District 38 has won his party’s primary by just 28 votes. The OregonianLive…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A popular state-owned recreation area in southeastern Idaho will close to camping and utility terrain vehicles due to visitors…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As hate speech targeting LGBTQ people increases among some far-right influencers and others…

By MATTHEW BROWN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press RED LODGE, Mont. (AP) — More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say three members of a Puyallup, Washington, family have been charged with a series of misdemeanors for their role…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A few weeks before 31 members of a white supremacist group were arrested for allegedly…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Massive floodwaters ravaged Yellowstone National Park and nearby communities Monday,…

SEATTLE (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…

KENT, 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…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A self-published romance novelist who once wrote an online essay called “How to Murder Your Husband” was sentenced Monday…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on whether the state’s constitution…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SAM METZ Associated Press After the arrest of more than two dozen members of a white supremacist group near a northern…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho pride event Saturday…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Forensic psychiatric evaluations of Caleb Sharpe, who pleaded guilty to killing a classmate and injuring others in a shooting…

BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) — Officials in Oregon’s Morrow County along the Columbia River have declared a local state of emergency after private…

SEATTLE (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…

IDAHO 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…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A government panel has renamed a Yellowstone National Park mountain that had been named for a U.S. Army…

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of intentionally providing wrong information in the search for a missing Irish hiker in Grand Teton National…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A 29-year-old Idaho woman convicted of torturing and killing her 9-year-old stepson has been sentenced to life in prison…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle has paid $500,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the father of a 19-year-old man shot and killed after police…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When Raevahnna Richardson spotted a woman standing outside a library in Salem, Oregon,…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A person’s race and ethnicity must be taken into account when deciding whether they were free to…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A wolf pack in northeastern Washington state has killed another calf, forcing the state Department of Fish and Wildlife to…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers have hired a Utah company to appraise federal land in three counties to…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The City Council in Vancouver, Washington, has passed a measure that would make it illegal to picket outside the homes of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Federal Communications Commissions has proposed a $34,000 fine against an Idaho man that…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Attorney General’s office has filed a complaint against a Sequim lawyer who has filed lawsuits making meritless…

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — Three men accused of killing a Washington state family five years ago pleaded not guilty Tuesday, as detectives asserted…

OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — The results of a state House race are still unclear nearly a month after Oregon’s primary election because of…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have initiated a licensing process for a water, wind and solar energy project…

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Three people have been arrested in connection with the quadruple murder five years ago of a prominent family that owned a…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Coronavirus cases are again on the rise in Idaho, according to data from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, but the…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington State trooper sustained minor injuries when he was struck by a vehicle while investigating a collision Sunday in…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Wapato man to nearly five years in prison for a 2019 driving under the influence crash that…

BONNER, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials captured two young female sibling grizzly bears, releasing one back into the wild and euthanizing…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A former lawmaker in Oregon who as a young woman flew a helicopter around an erupting Mount…

By BRADLEY W. PARKS Oregon Public Broadcasting The pond is full again at Upingaksraq Spring Alaska Schreiner’s high desert farm. It’s a welcome…

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildlife agency that lost key court rulings over its denial of petitions to protect Yellowstone National Park bison will…

By ALEX HASENSTAB Oregon Public Broadcasting PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — During migration season, millions of birds fly though Oregon as they head north…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws in approving exploratory drilling by a…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell says the police department’s low staffing in its sexual assault unit that has led to a backlog of…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An attack by two wolves panicked a flock of sheep and 143 died after they ran into a steep…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State assistant football coach DaVonte’ Neal has been arrested on suspicion of killing a man in Arizona and the…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Efforts to get millions of dollars in funding to treatment centers and related services as…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court will hear arguments in a lawsuit over the state’s newest…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A audit of Idaho’s May primary found only six variations from initial results of about…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Every public school district in Oregon last year was given the option to ban guns from their properties. Oregon Public…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison gored a 25-year-old woman in Yellowstone National Park. The bison was walking near a boardwalk at…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that pushes app-based companies like food delivery services to…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle will create a database of homeless camps and provide more than $100 million to a regional group trying to tackle the…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A cougar attacked a 9-year-old girl who was playing hide-and-seek at a church camp…

SEATTLE (AP) — Researchers say the newest member of a group of endangered southern resident orcas is a female. The Center for Whale Research says…

OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Officials in Clackamas County, Oregon, said Tuesday they have finished duplicating the majority of primary election…

RIGBY, Idaho (AP) — A 12-year-old girl who shot three people at an eastern Idaho junior high school last year will remain in juvenile detention…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Patrol says drivers are increasingly refusing to stop for troopers – and other law enforcement…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council will vote Tuesday on the first in a series of policies that would ask app-based companies like food…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A suburban Portland, Oregon, man was arraigned in court Friday for allegedly placing a white-supremacist, neo-Nazi sticker…

By AMY RADIL KUOW SEATTLE (AP) — People convicted under Washington’s longtime felony drug possession law are starting to get their records…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SARA CLINE Associated Press OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Voters in an Oregon county where a ballot-printing error delayed…

SEATTLE (AP) — Health officials in Washington state say a case of the monkeypox virus has been confirmed in the Seattle area. On Friday the state…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman charged in Idaho with killing her two youngest children and her new husband’s previous wife will be tried alongside…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jo Rae Perkins has won Oregon’s Republican U.S. Senate primary. Perkins, a frequent candidate for public office, has been…