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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A California man convicted of kidnapping an 11-year-old Idaho girl could be released from prison after five to seven months if…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle City Council has approved an ordinance freeing up more than $1 million to be used to recruit police officers to a…

By SARA CLINE and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Three weeks after Oregon’s third-largest county learned that a majority…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho woman was sentenced Tuesday to two months in jail for her participation in the Jan.…

MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration says transgender people can not change…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Scientists will set about 1,000 traps this year in their quest to wipe out the Asian…

SEATTLE (AP) — The police department in Vancouver, Washington, has agreed to improve services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing as part of…

By SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press As drought and climate change tighten their grip on the American West, the sight of fountains, swimming pools,…

SEATTLE (AP) — A “presumptive” case of monkeypox is being investigated in the Seattle area, local health officials said Monday. Dr. Jeff…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have released an environmental study for a proposed nuclear test reactor to be…

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The Mountain West Conference will eliminate its two-division format in football for the 2023 season. The conference…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s unemployment rate in April dropped a tenth of a percent to 2.6% to mark a third consecutive month of historic lows…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SARA CLINE Associated Press OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — A Democratic state lawmaker in Oregon is calling for an investigation…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and SARA CLINE Associated Press OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of ballots with blurry barcodes that can’t be read by…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — With bird flu hitting nine flocks scattered across seven counties, the Washington…

By SAM METZ Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republicans are coming out swinging against Wall Street’s growing efforts to consider…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Leaders of a Tennessee abortion clinic calculated driving…

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say an 8-year-old boy shot his 9-year-old brother while handling a handgun inside the family’s…

By MATTHEW BROWN and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s order to protect the nation’s oldest…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Drought is expected to impact much of the Pacific Northwest this summer, including areas in eastern Washington, southern…

By COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press DENVER (AP) — U.S. government lawyers on Wednesday asked the appeals court overseeing four western and two…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Voters in Multnomah County, home to Portland, Oregon, have elected a female sheriff for the first time in history. Current…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little won the GOP gubernatorial primary by beating a Trump-backed challenger…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration acted illegally in 2020 when it withdrew an…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Powerful Idaho House Speaker Scott Bedke has won the GOP primary for lieutenant governor. The…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The county clerk in Idaho’s largest county has won the GOP primary for secretary of state by…

Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The former president of the Idaho State Board of Education has defeated the incumbent superintendent of public…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador has won Idaho’s GOP attorney general primary, beating the…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador wins Idaho’s GOP attorney general…

WASHINGTON (AP) — David Roth wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Idaho primary…

By REBECCA BOONE, LINDSEY TANNER and JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press As Morgan Fabry drives around Chicago looking for baby formula that is…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The fate of seven-term incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader hung in the balance…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Simpson wins Republican nomination for U.S. House in Idaho’s 2nd Congressional…

By JILL COLVIN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL and MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Printing mistakes will force local election officials in Pennsylvania and Oregon to redo…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A challenger from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was leading late Tuesday…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s five-term Republican attorney general has handled his duties in the deeply…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Tuesday won the GOP gubernatorial primary, beating a Trump-backed…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek on Tuesday won the Democratic…

By WILL WEISSERT, MARC LEVY and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump’s preferred candidate in…

By BRIAN SLODYSKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s unexpected 2020 win made him the youngest member of Congress…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon remains poised to see a potentially “challenging” wildfire season this summer, despite a wet and cool spring in…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods…

By MARC LEVY and GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s winning streak in U.S. Senate…

By BRADLEY W. PARKS Oregon Public Broadcasting McDermitt, Ore. (AP) — Katie Fite crouched behind some waist-high sagebrush, and her dog Bell…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by several hundred Hanford nuclear reservation and Pacific Northwest…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials on Friday announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson &…

The Associated Press The 2021-2022 ski season was record-breaking in the total number of skier visits to resorts around the country, the National Ski…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Growing discontent over homelessness and crime in Portland is driving interest in a pair…

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The sponsor of a bill that would have subjected Louisiana women to murder charges for having…

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana women who have abortions won’t face possible murder charge after state House amends…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Randy Weaver, patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Foreign drug cartels that established illegal outdoor marijuana farms in Oregon last year are…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court ruled Thursday people can be cited for driving under the influence for driving while high,…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal prosecutors say an Idaho woman who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The insurgent candidate backed by former President Donald Trump appears to be…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho hospital that went on lockdown in March after far-right activists protested outside…

SEATTLE (AP) — A lawsuit was filed Wednesday seeking federal recognition for the Duwamish Tribe, whose forebears include Chief Seattle for whom the…

SEATTLE (AP) — The roof of Seattle’s iconic Space Needle has been painted “Galaxy Gold” – the original color of of the landmark…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Fish and Game Department is investigating how many illegally-stocked walleye fish are in Lake Cascade after a second…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Fewer than 10,000 of Idaho’s roughly 1 million registered voters switched their affiliation to Republican ahead of next…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Bend, Oregon, a mountain town that has seen a population boom due to its…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Lt. Gov. and gubernatorial candidate Janice McGeachin on Monday demanded that…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is running for governor against incumbent Republican…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Federal investigators confirmed that the buildup of ice on the wings and other parts of the plane was a key factor in a…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The city of Boise has agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Boise police officer for $400,000.…

By REBECCA BOONE and JOHN HANNA Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Angela Housley was halfway through her pregnancy when she learned the fetus…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Months ahead of Oregon’s Democratic primary, many believed the race…

CLACKAMAS, Ore. (AP) — Defective barcodes on an unknown number of primary election ballots in a Portland, Oregon, suburban county will likely delay…

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Democrats want the state to be one of the first five states to host an early presidential primary in 2024. A letter of…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho residents who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services by the company behind the TurboTax…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say two officers were seriously injured in an early Thursday shooting in Pocatello, Idaho, when a man opened…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho needs to be better prepared to defend against inevitable cyberattacks that could harm…

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma joined Texas this week to form a region that parts of a nation divided over abortion…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As homicides in Portland, Oregon, continue to increase and with resources…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee decried a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that would throw…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Months into a complex trial over their role in flooding Washington with highly addictive…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin’s association with what a group of retired Idaho county…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Coronavirus cases are again edging upward in parts of Idaho, prompting some health care…

By TOM BANSE Northwest News Network SEATTLE (AP) — Private electric utilities in the Pacific Northwest are planning tens of millions of dollars in…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — When a legislative intern came forward with rape allegations against an Idaho state lawmaker…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Friday approved an emergency drought declaration for 34 of Idaho’s 44 counties. The Republican…