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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former Idaho lawmaker found guilty of raping legislative…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane Valley City Council in eastern Washington in an unusual move has banned newspapers from the City Hall lobby. The…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press Tribal and local authorities and volunteers from a Minnesota-based missing persons foundation will search the…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker was convicted Friday of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern after…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Archdiocese of Seattle said Thursday it will pay $375,000 to settle two separate claims of sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s.…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bell Semiconductor has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against computer chipmaker Micron…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously rejected an effort to recall Democratic Gov.…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A Washington state doctor has been sentenced to four years in prison for a scheme in…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For a record nine years, Tina Kotek sat at the front of Oregon’s House of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A woman who reported she was raped by an Idaho lawmaker while serving as a legislative intern…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In 1994, Kyle Hedquist led a teenager down a remote logging road, then shot her in the back of…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals on Wednesday overturned a $1.1 billion verdict against the…

SEATTLE (AP) — A civilian oversight board says some Seattle police officers routinely — and illegally — ignored state and city mask mandates…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A southern Oregon man was sentenced Tuesday for shooting at a Bureau of Land Management employee while the employee was taking…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The trial for a former Idaho lawmaker accused of raping a 19-year-old legislative intern…

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — One of two kayakers who did not return from a weekend trip has been found dead in the Long Tom River near Corvallis and a…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Collecting piñon nuts has been tradition for Native American and Hispanic…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A nuclear waste treatment plant in eastern Idaho had two unanticipated shutdowns this year,…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A seafood processing plant has been fined $56,000 in connection with a 2021 COVID outbreak that left one employee dead. The…

PORTLAND, Ore (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden tested positive Tuesday for COVID-19, his office said, as the virus continues to circulate among lawmakers…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — In a change of plans, a man on Monday pleaded not guilty to aggravated first-degree murder in the shooting of Everett,…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The recently formed Office of Police Accountability for the city of Boise has released a report on a March 2017 shooting that…

ASTORIA, Ore. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Oregon have voted to end a summer steelhead hatchery program on the North Umpqua River after severe…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — After efforts to restrict the use of natural gas in future commercial building heating systems in Washington stalled in the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Kansas to revive a law that banned secret filming at slaughterhouses and other…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Police say officers had glass bottles and canned food thrown at them when they attempted to break up a party that drew as many…

ALBANY, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon woman has been arrested in the alleged murder of her 3-year-old child. Police in Albany say the 32-year-old woman was…

By JOHN RYAN KUOW OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash. (AP) — Portland State University professor Andrew Fountain has been researching the dwindling…

QUILCENE, Wash. (AP) — A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A former Washington state football coach who lost his job for praying on the field after games is…

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Jurors in north-central Idaho convicted a 17-year-old boy of first-degree murder after about three hours of deliberation on…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Defense plans to build an advanced mobile nuclear microreactor…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that a city ordinance that…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A former Oregon Health Authority employee  has been indicted by a Marion County grand jury for allegedly embezzling nearly…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Independent federal investigators say there are significant issues related to fire…

By BRITTANY PETERSON Associated Press TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — As wildfires intensify across the West, researchers are studying how scorched…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s Republican attorney general candidates sparred over the validity of public health restrictions, the merits of…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court is allowing state lawmakers to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A lawyer for a man accused of fatally shooting an Everett police officer in March says he plans to plead guilty to…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Republican House Speaker Scott Bedke is being endorsed by the National Rifle Association for lieutenant governor ahead of the…

ST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A mother charged with conspiring to kill her children, her estranged husband and a lover’s wife refused to enter a plea…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed a bill into law that phases out the state’s agricultural overtime pay exemption. The Capital…

SEATTLE (AP) — Alaska Airlines says masks will be immediately optional on their flights — after a federal judge voided the national…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Scientists in Idaho have completed a rare overhaul of one of the world’s most powerful…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little is being endorsed by the National Rifle Association ahead of the…

ONTARIO, Ore. (AP) — Planned Parenthood is renting medical office space in the town of Ontario on the Oregon-Idaho border. Oregon Public…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 19-year-old who disappeared from his family’s home in California nearly three…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A highly contagious form of avian influenza has been found in two Idaho chicken flocks, prompting state agriculture officials…

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — A hovering arctic jet stream has brought biting cold, snow, rain and hail that is concerning growers across central…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The sheriff of Oregon’s most populous county is sounding the alarm over a spike in arrests for violent crimes and says…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little says he won’t participate in debates heading into next month’s…

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Forty-nine Yellowstone National Park bison were shipped to slaughter, killed by hunters or captured for relocation this…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Newly released FBI documents show the Sumner man who stole an airplane from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in 2018…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A lawsuit challenging Idaho’s ban on transgender athletes in women’s sports will likely…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — After four people were wounded in two separate shootings in Spokane last weekend, civic leaders are looking to Police Chief…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — A nationwide murder warrant has been issued for the father of a child whose body was found in eastern Washington in…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Baristas and other employees at an Oregon Starbucks have voted to unionize, the first in the state and the latest in a…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a request by the Roman Catholic Church in Idaho to…

GRANGEVILLE, Idaho (AP) — Officials in northern Idaho say skeletal remains found in 1984 have been positively identified as an Oklahoma man who…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Climatologists say rare April snow along with rain sweeping across the Pacific Northwest this week could increase water…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The battle over who represents Oregon’s new congressional district has become heated as six…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho governor and attorney general are seeking to add Idaho to the list of states that…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church in Idaho is asking the state’s Supreme Court to let it…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Providence Health & Services Washington will pay $22.6 million to resolve…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man authorities say fought with police during a stolen vehicle investigation was shot and killed by an officer in Salem,…

SEATTLE (AP) — Officials with Washington State Ferries acknowledge the system is short on staff and in need of dozens of new recruits. KING-TV…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane Police Department says two people who were reported to have died in a drive-by shooting early Saturday morning…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Farmers who rely on a federal irrigation project on the California-Oregon border will get…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho judge says a mother accused of conspiring to kill her children, her estranged…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, received the first measurable snowfall in April in recorded history on Monday. The National Weather Service…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington’s wolf population grew in 2021 for the 13th consecutive year, showing a…

SEATTLE (AP) — A second defendant has pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime and making false statements in connection with a 2018…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two people have died and a third person is hospitalized in stable condition after a drive-by shooting in downtown Spokane,…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a new state law that would ban abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Supreme Court temporarily blocks new abortion law modeled after Texas…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho environmental officials are proposing a $1 million fine as part of a settlement…

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz says the state has launched a new program to save 10,000 acres of forest land as a…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho gubernatorial candidate and antigovernment activist Ammon Bundy has been fined $3,000 and sentenced to 10 days in jail…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon faces a dire shortage of public defenders and as a result, nearly three dozen criminal cases have been dismissed in…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A city audit is critical of the way the Portland Police Bureau collected and stored surveillance information regarding racial…

RICHLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials say a wolf was killed in northeast Oregon and the state is seeking the public’s help to find the person or…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials are seeing the first increase in positive COVID-10 test results in more than two months. The Oregon…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than half of Idaho is in a severe drought, and an Idaho water expert says that’s likely to worsen in the coming…

By MATTHEW BROWN, CAMILLE FASSETT, PATRICK WHITTLE, JANET MCCONNAUGHEY and JASEN LO Associated Press Power outages from severe weather have roughly…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little and other state officials are highlighting one of the state’s…

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Workers at a large Washington tulip grower who went on strike two weeks ago over pay and better work conditions reached…

SEATTLE (AP) — Nearly 50,000 customers lost power during a storm bringing high winds, rain and mountain snow to areas of the Pacific Northwest…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — NorthWestern Energy is reducing the amount of water it releases from Hebgen Dam into the Madison River for nearly three…

SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state ferry made a hard landing in high winds at Seattle’s Colman Dock. The Seattle Times reports no injuries were…