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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.…

SEATTLE (AP) — An investigation by Seattle’s police watchdog group shows Seattle police exchanged detailed fake radio transmissions about a…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has ordered 5.5 million at-home tests to distribute to the public and…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man in northwest Washington was stuck and killed by a snowplow and authorities urged people not to travel in some areas of…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Public Schools officials are tightening mask and vaccine requirements for…

SEATTLE (AP) — Officials say around 4% of more than 14,000 Seattle Public Schools students and staff who participated in the district’s rapid…

AUBURN, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a shooting in Auburn, Washington, that left three people dead. One of those killed was a child.…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Power has submitted a 20-year plan to state regulators that phases out coal-fired power…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell celebrated his inauguration Tuesday, promising to create “one Seattle” through a series of policy…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Doctor’s offices and urgent care centers are bracing for impact as they again face high…

NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state has received the highest snowfall in 20 years as of Jan. 3. The…

STEVENS PASS, Wash. (AP) — The winter skiing and snowboarding season at Stevens Pass ski resort east of Everett, Washington, has gotten off to a…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Former New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof has told Oregon’s top election official…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Attorneys for a death row inmate say Idaho Gov. Brad Little doesn’t have the legal…

By ANDREW SELSKY and GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — With masks stretched across their faces, students and faculty returned to…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon reported more than 9,700 new cases of COVID-19 from the holiday weekend on Monday and smashed a previous record for…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials say they have almost completed a lengthy project to dig up and remove…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — In response to an increase of COVID-19 cases across the state, the Washington House is…

HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a fire early Sunday in Hillsboro, Oregon, impacted about 20 to 25 businesses. Shortly after 3 a.m.,…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Two 19-year-old men who went winter camping were rescued near Eugene, Oregon, by the U.S. Coast Guard after signaling for help…

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Amin Adamu scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds and Montana State stifled Idaho State in a 60-40. The Bobcats held Idaho…

SEATTLE (AP) — A man is accused of storming the court during his son’s middle school basketball game and slamming into a referee from behind,…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gonzaga University is joining the ranks of schools requiring vaccinated students and employees to get a coronavirus booster…

MISSOULA, Mont. — Josh Bannan had 19 points and 10 rebounds to lead five Montana players in double figures as the Grizzlies stretched their home…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Public Schools will delay its return to classes by one day to allow for voluntarily COVID-19 testing Monday for all students…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s governor has rejected an official recommendation to commute the death sentence of an inmate who is dying of terminal…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Former billionaire Tim Blixseth has filed a lawsuit against Montana’s Department of…

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A winter storm warning has been issued for southeast Nevada and the mountains west of Las Vegas through Friday afternoon. A…

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle-area medical system says it will soon limit COVID-19 testing appointments at its community testing sites because of an…

SEATTLE (AP) — The lead lawyer in the lawsuit that forced Washington state to revamp public school funding has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a small…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State Police say they have finished testing a backlog of 1,100 rape kits identified in a 2016 audit. The agency in a news…

BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — An eastern Idaho sheriff accused of threatening a church youth group with a gun can stay on the job but must surrender all…

SEATTLE (AP) — Another blast of snow halted travel on a large portion of the main east-west highway across Washington state and also snarled…

SANDPOINT, Idaho (AP) — Northern Idaho authorities say a snowboarder at Schweitzer Mountain Resort has died. The Bonner County Sheriff’s…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high-level…

OLYMPIA (AP) — Former Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice Mary Fairhurst, who had been fighting cancer, has died. She was 64. In a statement…

SEATTLE (AP) — A thaw-out is coming for the frozen Seattle and Portland, Oregon, but not before another round of snow that could compound problems…

SEATTLE (AP) — King County plans to distribute 300,000 COVID-19 at-home test kits to community groups, health centers, libraries and other…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — An audit by the Department of Energy’s Office of Inspector General has found that the Hanford site’s occupational…

BOISE, Idaho — Marcus Shaver Jr. scored 18 points as Boise State won its seventh straight game, beating Fresno State 65-55. The game marked the…

KETCHUM, Idaho (AP) — Idaho wildlife officials have started feeding elk west of Ketchum and Sun Valley in central Idaho to keep them out of…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As the omicron variant causes a rise in coronavirus cases, officials from…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — More Oregonians have signed up for private health insurance through the state-run exchange this year than had at this point a…

By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Snow, ice and unseasonable cold in the Pacific Northwest and the Sierra Nevada are continuing to…

By The Associated Press The Arizona Bowl has been canceled after Boise State pulled out and shut down all team activities due to COVID-19 issues.…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Each of Idaho’s 44 counties and all 24 eligible cities will participate in national…

COLFAX, Calif. (AP) — A major Christmas weekend storm caused whiteout conditions and closed key highways amid blowing snow in mountains of Northern…

SEATTLE (AP) — Snow fueled by unusually cold weather has blanketed parts of the Pacific Northwest, slowing travel but also providing a rare chance…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s population keeps growing at a faster clip than other states. The state has led the country in population growth for…

SEATTLE (AP) — The Pacific Northwest is bracing for a major winter storm with snow expected along the coast, the mountains under a winter weather…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In preparation for freezing temperatures, snow and ice in the Pacific…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Traffic fatalities in Idaho were at a 15-year high in 2021 after declining for four years, according to data from the Idaho…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A human rights group has filed a lawsuit against Canyon County contending mail it sends to…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Democratic Bellevue Mayor Ned Burns has been appointed to a House seat representing central Idaho in the state Legislature.…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS, FELICIA FONSECA and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press WARM SPRINGS, Ore. (AP) — The massive infrastructure bill signed earlier this…

SEATTLE (AP) — Initiative promoter Tim Eyman, who earlier this year was found liable for years of violations of Washington’s campaign finance…

By LYNDA V. MAPES The Seattle Times SEATTLE (AP) — A family-owned company with timber operations in the U.S. and New Zealand called Port Blakely…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Abu Kigab scored 19 points and Boise State pulled away in the final two minutes to beat Washington State 58-52 for its sixth…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Amadou Sow had 18 points as UC Santa Barbara defeated Idaho State 56-43. Tarik Cool led the Bengals on Wednesday with 11…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A new legal challenge seeks to curtail the use of solitary confinement as discipline in Oregon prisons. The…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has unanimously approved of paying $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against…

SEATTLE (AP) — The outgoing mayor of Seattle says she will veto City Council legislation that would have repealed the $4 an hour hazard pay boost…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A conservation group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service to stop a large…

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State University says it will “likely” require students and employees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Elections officials in Oregon are seeking more information to determine whether former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof…

By JASON CHATRAW Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Levi Williams ran for 200 yards and four touchdowns and passed for 127 yards and another…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown has extended Oregon’s declaration of a state of…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Tacoma Police Department interim Chief Mike Ake says an investigation shows two officers involved in the death of Manuel Ellis…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A man lost his job as a jail deputy in Portland, Oregon, and will be on probation for six…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is among 27 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay to prevent…

COLFAX, Wash. (AP) — The largest remaining area of native Palouse prairie in southeastern Washington state will be preserved thanks to a…

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press U.S. population growth dipped to its lowest rate since the nation’s founding during the first year of the…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State lands generated $55 million for public schools that Republican Gov. Brad Little and other top elected state officials…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The city of Portland, Oregon, could pay $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed against police by a man who said he was…

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — As the highly transmissible omicron variant spreads across the country, University of Oregon students, faculty and staff will…

By PHILIP MARCELO and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — The nation’s second-largest city has called off its New Year’s Eve…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Newly unsealed federal court orders show that a veteran King County sheriff’s detective made…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Former New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof said Monday he has officially filed to run for Oregon governor in the…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State health officials have deactivated crisis guidelines for rationing care at northern Idaho…

BLACKFOOT, Idaho (AP) — An eastern Idaho county prosecutor as well as a city mayor and its police force are calling on the county sheriff to…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emmanuel Akot had 16 points to lead five Boise State players in double figures as the Broncos rolled past Montana Tech 88-57.…