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By CASEY SMITH Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana lawmakers have advanced a Republican-backed bill that would ban…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health officials have activated crisis standards of care for much of southern…

PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities say a 67-year-old woman was killed when a driver accused of being under the influence of intoxicants crashed his…

By MILES BLUMHARDT The Coloradoan FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Avalanche forecasting has improved by leaps and bounds over the last 50 years. The…

MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. (AP) — A record number of visitors flocked to Yellowstone National Park last year despite fewer hotel rooms and campsites…

RAINIER, Wash. (AP) — A couple and their three-year-old granddaughter have been killed in a house fire in western Washington state. Authorities…

SAN DIEGO — Boise State held San Diego State to 37 points on 28.1% shooting on the way to a 42-37 win, the Broncos’ 12th consecutive victory.…

MOSCOW, Idaho — Trevante Anderson registered 17 points as Idaho narrowly beat Sacramento State 73-72 in overtime. Zach Chappell led the Hornets…

CEDAR CITY, Utah — Tevian Jones, John Knight III and Jason Spurgin scored 17 points apiece as Southern Utah got past Idaho State 86-74. Jared…

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — Wildlife officials say wolves attracted to six unburied cow carcasses at an eastern Oregon ranch killed a herding dog. The…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in eastern Idaho say a man upset with being charged a $150 fee for smoking in his motel room fired multiple rounds…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A Spokane man who reported his wife’s death as a suicide has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The Spokesman-Review…

By HELENA DORE Bozeman Daily Chronicle BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park is about to turn 150 years old. Yellowstone Superintendent…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health officials predict that the number of COVID-19 cases in the…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho lawmaker who was censured after publicizing the name of a 19-year-old intern who…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has only roughly one-third of the public defense attorneys it needs to provide reasonably effective assistance to…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would allow Idaho residents with multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders to use a pain-relief spray…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Just like other Idaho residents, some animals at Zoo Boise are getting vaccinated against coronavirus. KIVI-TV reports that so…

OGDEN, Utah — Jamison Overton tied his season high with 21 points as Weber State rolled past Idaho State 95-63. Koby McEwen had 13 points and six…

LOGAN, Utah — Mladen Armus had 22 points plus 19 rebounds and Marcus Shaver Jr. hit the game winner with 1.4 seconds as Boise State won its 11th…

MOSCOW, Idaho — Bodie Hume had 25 points as Northern Colorado got past Idaho 87-70. Daylen Kountz had 16 points for Northern Colorado (9-8, 4-1 Big…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A state judge is weighing whether Idaho’s Constitution allows the governor to reject a…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two public electric utilities and a federal energy agency with millions of customers in eight…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a California man to nine months in prison for a drunken rampage in Yellowstone National Park.…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s largest-ever tax cut has cleared the House and is headed to the Senate. The…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials have sent MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell a cease-and-desist letter and a bill of more than $6,000 over the…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has approved paying $22,500 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who said police used…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State officials are requesting $392,000 from the general fund to kill wolves in Idaho, and…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin asked legislative budget writers Wednesday for $29,000 to cover legal fees incurred after she…

By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Latino civil rights organization and others have filed a federal lawsuit that says new political…

BOISE, Idaho — Tyson Degenhart registered 19 points as Boise State stretched its winning streak to 10 games, getting past Air Force 62-56. Emmanuel…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A panel of Idaho lawmakers has introduced a resolution that would have flags flown at half…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — When COVID-19 hit in the winter of 2020, many escaped cabin fever by hitting cross…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press WINTHROP, Wash. (AP) — When COVID-19 hit in the winter of 2020, many escaped cabin fever by hitting cross…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A panel of lawmakers has given its blessing for Idaho’s largest-ever tax relief package.…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says it will significantly expand efforts…

POCATELLO, Idaho — Koby McEwen and Seikou Sisoho Jawara scored 23 points apiece as Weber State beat Idaho State 78-61. Tarik Cool led the Bengals…

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Nik Mains and Jalen Cone scored 24 points apiece as Northern Arizona narrowly defeated Idaho 74-72. Trevante Anderson led the…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revisit part of its decision not to…

Police in Bellevue, Washington, rescued two people from a home that slid off its foundation. The Seattle Times reports police received a call of…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — State Rep. Dan Rayfield is poised to be the next Oregon House Speaker after being officially nominated by Democratic…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Tarik Cool scored 20 points to lead four in double figures and Idaho State beat Idaho 81-74. Emmit Taylor III had 12 points…

SULA, Mont. (AP) — A 25-year-old Colorado skier who went missing Thursday from the Lost Trail Ski Area on the Montana-Idaho border has been found…

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Governors and state lawmakers are prioritizing climate change as they write their…

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer Katie Uhlaender now has made five of the six U.S. Olympic women’s skeleton teams. She’s also the first…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Police Bureau’s Internal Affairs department is investigating a police training presentation that ended with a…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Coronavirus cases are rising sharply among children under age four and between the ages of 12 and 17. Oregon health officials…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s snowpack levels are in good shape and water experts are cautiously optimistic about water levels in the coming…

OGDEN, Utah — Jamison Overton and Seikou Sisoho Jawara scored 18 points apiece as Weber State topped Idaho 84-74. Koby McEwen added 12 points for…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington state Supreme Court has unanimously upheld permits that will allow Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm steelhead trout…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s 300,000 unaffiliated voters might have to act fast if they want to participate in the closed Republican primary…

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — A former Kennewick fire chief is suing the southeast Washington city in federal court, saying he was fired because he is…

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a suspect in the decades-old sexual assault and slaying of a young Idaho girl has been formally charged with…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A panel of Idaho lawmakers has introduced legislation to reject the math, science and English…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Supreme Court has tentatively OK’d a proposal that would give would-be lawyers the option to skip the bar…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Marcus Shaver Jr. scored 28 points and Boise State defeated Nevada 85-70. Emmanuel Akot added 23 points for the Broncos. Grant…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife employee has been accused of poaching. The Spokesman-Review reports the Ferry…

BOARDMAN, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has fined the Port of Morrow along the Columbia River $1.3 million for repeatedly over-applying agricultural…

By KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is acknowledging it has been shipping mixed radioactive waste from a nuclear…

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A Montana man has been charged with felony driving under the influence after prosecutors say he crashed into an…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation to cut Idaho’s income tax and provide one-time rebates was introduced Wednesday in the House Revenue and Taxation…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The recent closures of four passes through the Cascade Range in Washington have left empty grocery store shelves in Spokane…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s coronavirus cases are increasing faster than the state can track them, causing a…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has asked the federal government to remove protections from grizzly bears in and…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Increasingly destructive Idaho wildfires that the state’s Republican governor blames in…

ELMA, Wash. (AP) — Police said Tuesday they have found the cellphone and car keys of a 39-year-old man who has been missing since he drove past a…

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal lawsuit claims Washington state officials unlawfully granted Native American casinos a ’”discriminatory tribal gaming…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court says additional court staffers are needed across the state to help…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Neo-Nazi who helped lead a campaign to threaten journalists and Jewish activists in three states…

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — BNSF Railway has announced plans to resume operation of its mainline rail corridor through southern Montana, ending a lease…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little is proposing an 11% budget increase for public schools, which is a…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Lawmakers in Washington state have started a new legislative session amid the backdrop of…

NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — The main east-west highway in Washington state reopened over the mountain passes after being closed for almost four days…

FALL CITY, Wash. (AP) — Rescue crews are searching for a woman and an 8-year-old boy after their vehicle plunged into the Snoqualmie River near…

SEATTLE (AP) — Flooding coursed over roads and inundated farmland in Washington state as the Pacific Northwest slowly recovered from a series of…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police in Vancouver say a knife-wielding man was fatally shot by officers outside a home on Sunday. The Vancouver Police…

CHENEY, Wash. — Steele Venters scored 25 points as Eastern Washington narrowly beat Idaho 96-93. Angelo Allegri added 21 points for the Eagles.…

GRAND COUNTY, Utah (AP) — Utah officials say a 51-year-old man died in a BASE jumping accident in a remote part of Grand County. Grand County Chief…

SEATTLE (AP) — Emergency workers have recovered the body of a man whose vehicle was swept into floodwaters west of Olympia after record…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The 2022 legislative session in Washington state will look much like the one a year ago:…

ISLAND PARK, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State Police say roughly 40 vehicles were involved in a crash on an eastern Idaho highway after severe winter…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and TERRY TANG Associated Press The explosion in omicron-fueled coronavirus infections has caused a breakdown in basic…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof filed a petition with the Oregon Supreme Court, asking justices to quickly overturn…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he will roll back a long-standing directive that restricts affirmative action in state…

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Three small snowslides on Friday, and concerns that there might be more, led the Montana Department of Transportation to…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — With the state sitting on a pile of cash, Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little is talking tax…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health authorities have published new interim guidelines for hospitals to follow…

MOSCOW, Idaho — Xavier Bishop matched his season high with 20 points as Montana State easily beat Idaho 92-72. Jubrile Belo had 15 points and three…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — For the fourth consecutive day Oregon has shattered previous high marks of…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers on an economic forecasting committee working on recommendations the entire…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Twenty of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves roamed from the park and were…

By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Flush with cash, Washington state lawmakers return to Olympia next week with Democrats and…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A former high school student accused of killing one classmate and wounding three others during a shooting at Freeman High…

By MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials say five Americans died of rabies last year — the largest number in a decade.…