Tearing the web: Invasive trout disrupt Glacier park’s lakes
By ROB CHANEY Missoulian GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. (AP) — Since lake trout were artificially introduced into Flathead Lake in the early 20th…
Continue ReadingBy ROB CHANEY Missoulian GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Mont. (AP) — Since lake trout were artificially introduced into Flathead Lake in the early 20th…
Continue ReadingIRVINE, Calif. — Collin Welp had 11 points, seven rebounds and six assists as UC Irvine defeated Boise State 58-50. Dawson Baker had 10 points for…
Continue ReadingSAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) — Jaden Ohlsen kicked a 41-yard field goal with four seconds left to give Cal Poly a 32-29 victory over Idaho State.…
Continue ReadingBOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Quarterback Tommy Mellott ran for his third touchdown with 2:16 remaining and Montana State held off Idaho for a 20-13…
Continue ReadingADRIAN, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon school district has been fined $11,000 for failing to uphold the state indoor mask mandate and other violations. The…
Continue ReadingMALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Keith Fisher III recorded 13 points and 10 rebounds to lead Pepperdine to a 65-60 win over Idaho State. Tarik Cool led the…
Continue ReadingBy JASON CHATRAW Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — George Holani rushed for 102 yards, Hank Bachmeier passed for 225 yards, and the Boise State…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Trevante Anderson scored 22 points on 7-for-8 shooting with seven rebounds seven assists and Idaho beat Division III-level…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former state lawmaker is suing Idaho’s redistricting commission, contending that the new…
Continue ReadingBy GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard and local authorities used two helicopters and a rescue swimmer to…
Continue ReadingMONROE, Wash. (AP) — Students and parents who say they suffered brain injuries from exposure to toxic chemicals at a Monroe, Washington, public…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning…
Continue ReadingCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — A former northern Idaho school board member says a poll worker illegally handed out critical race theory…
Continue ReadingWALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — About 13,000 pounds of marijuana valued at around $3 million was destroyed this week outside of three adjoining Touchet,…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Public records show police received multiple calls from people reporting an armed and threatening man in the months before he…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Joel Murray had 28 points as Long Beach State beat Idaho 95-89 in overtime. Trevante Anderson led the Vandals with a…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Washington state health officials say there’s growing concern more patients are becoming sick with respiratory viruses other than…
Continue ReadingBy RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has appointed Democratic state Sen. Steve Hobbs as the…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana tribes and environmental groups have sued state regulators after Gov. Greg Gianforte’s…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho inmate who became the first person to receive court-ordered gender…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state of Washington has approved the killing of up to two wolves for preying on…
Continue ReadingKEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin over incumbent…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s mayor-elect is criticizing a City Council plan to cut $10 million from the city’s police budget, saying voters just…
Continue ReadingBy BRITTANY PETERSON and SAM METZ Associated Press DENVER (AP) — More places around the U.S. are eyeing the practice of recycling wastewater for…
Continue ReadingYAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Washington State Tree Fruit Association officials have lowered their 2021 estimate of the statewide apple harvest by 5.3%. The…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Devonaire Doutrive had 18 points to lead five Boise State players in double figures as the Broncos rolled past Utah Valley…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Tarik Cool scored 16 points and Robert Ford III scored 15 points as Idaho State easily beat Eastern Oregon 82-61. Xavier…
Continue ReadingBy ANNE M. PETERSON AP Sports Writer EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Sedona Prince had 18 points before sitting out the fourth quarter and No. 10 Oregon opened…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The president of the state’s top business lobby group in a letter to Idaho lawmakers…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Public health officials say an Idaho infant died of COVID-19 last month, marking the…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The council of a small Oregon city has approved a deal with Google that will enable the…
Continue ReadingBy MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that will decide whether the…
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho mayor is running for governor. Sandpoint Mayor Shelby Rognstad announced Monday in Lewiston that he’s…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Former New York Times columnist Nick Kristof has outpaced his main Democratic rivals in fundraising in the 2022 Oregon…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed an executive order that seeks to move state government to an all-electric fleet of…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A first-term Republican representative says he’ll run for a seat in the Senate following redistricting that left him as the…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife managers in Wyoming have put tracking collars on two of four cubs belonging to a well-known grizzly bear that has…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho lawmaker has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges and is scheduled to stand trial next spring.…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Due to the unprecedented way lawmakers are reconvening at the Statehouse next week, any laws…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A group of Boise students is drafting legislation to require licensing for minors to purchase firearms. They hope to win…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are searching for two suspects after a shooting in Spokane that injured an agent from the Bureau of Alcohol,…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Hank Bachmeier passed for 283 yards and a touchdown and Boise State had five sacks and…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Roshaun Johnson scored a school-record six touchdowns, all on the ground, and Idaho snapped a three-game losing streak with a…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN COON Associated Press PROVO, Utah (AP) — Jaren Hall threw for 298 yards and four touchdowns, all in the first half, and No. 17 BYU…
Continue ReadingCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Two missing Oregon women were found in an Idaho forest Friday, the mother dead from the elements and the disabled…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The company that runs a for-profit immigration jail in Washington state has suspended its detainee…
Continue ReadingBy DAVID A. LIEB, GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The attorneys general of 27 states have filed…
Continue ReadingBy RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state senators and staff will have to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch this week sent a letter to the White House requesting a meeting about Idaho’s federal…
Continue ReadingNEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — The teachers union in Newberg, Oregon, has filed a lawsuit over a policy passed narrowly by its school board, limiting what…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle City Council President Lorena González has conceded the mayor’s race, after an updated vote tally on Thursday showed…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press No. 25 Fresno State returns to the Top 25 after more than a month away and is close to clinching a spot in the MWC…
Continue ReadingBy ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho will join a multistate lawsuit against the Biden administration over an emergency rule…
Continue ReadingBy The Associated Press It’s senior day for No. 17 BYU at LaVell Edwards Stadium with receiver Samson Nacua, defensive back Jared Kapisi and…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — State health officials are reporting the first human death due to rabies in the state since 1978. The Idaho Department of…
Continue ReadingGREELEY, Colo. (AP) — The trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in the killing a 12-year-old Colorado girl has ended…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin says she met with former President Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — A new national monument at Sutton Mountain near Central Oregon’s Painted Hills has bgeen proposed by Oregon’s U.S. senators.…
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A northern Idaho state senator who won the election to become mayor of Lewiston says he’ll do both jobs this year with…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Costs to clean up a massive nuclear weapons complex in Washington state are usually…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle’s downtown business community is celebrating as the moderate candidates it backed take…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A year after Portland’s police department underwent massive budget cuts…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In the hours after the COVID-19 vaccine was formally approved for use in younger children,…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a 54-year-old Idaho woman is in jail after she was accused of stealing from the body of a security guard killed…
Continue ReadingBURNS, Ore. (AP) — Another rural, conservative county in Oregon has expressed interest in becoming part of Idaho. The OregonianLive reports that…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press At least six state or local political candidates who won their races on Tuesday had attended former President…
Continue ReadingHILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s second most populous county has passed the state’s first ban on flavored tobacco products. Oregon Public…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A private prison company has been ordered to pay more than $23 million over lawsuits that accused…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Division of Public Health Administrator Elke Shaw-Tulloch says the rate of COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho colleges and universities will abide by President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon-based youth climate activists say settlement talks with the U.S. Department of Justice have failed six years after…
Continue ReadingGREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged with murder in the death of a…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — A judge has found that new congressional districts passed by Oregon Democrats meet all legal criteria, with little evidence they…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Moderate candidates were leading in early Seattle election returns following a months-long debate…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have approved Idaho’s plan for growing and transporting hemp with up to…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland and Multnomah County leaders have nearly $40 million is being…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to keep species protections in place for Canada lynx.…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho lawmakers are seeking technology companies to appraise federal land in real-time to find…
Continue ReadingTHE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — The city of The Dalles, Oregon, has filed suit in an effort to keep Google’s water use a secret. The move Friday comes…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — State officials say they have changed the way state-owned liquor stores sell rare bottles of alcohol after instances of…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The number of Oregon children in foster care has fallen nearly 20% since January 2020, the biggest prolonged decline on…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Boise Police Department says a man who was shot by police officers has died from his injuries. His identity will be…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A 27-year-old woman has pleaded guilty in Spokane County Superior Court to first-degree murder and second-degree assault.…
Continue ReadingFORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Hank Bachmeier threw three touchdown passes and Boise State erased a 13-0 first-quarter deficit to knock off Colorado…
Continue ReadingMOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — RJ Martinez threw for 238 yards and three touchdowns and Kevin Daniels ran for 177 yards and Northern Arizona beat Idaho…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Rashid Shaheed had a touchdown catch and returned a kickoff 98 yards for a score, and Weber State beat Idaho State 40-17.…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — An agreement has been reached between timber and environmental groups to overhaul management of 10 million acres of private…
Continue ReadingBy LISA RATHKE and THOMAS PEIPERT JAY, Vt. (AP) — Ski resorts are expecting a more normal season on the slopes this winter with many virus…
Continue ReadingAuthorities say a bullet struck the brim of a baseball-style cap worn by a Boise, Idaho, police officer who exchanged gunfire with the gunman in…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A magistrate judge says there is enough evidence for a rape case against a former state…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Nineteen states are now suing to block President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors. One suit…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tourism officials from Oregon’s largest city are calling Portland’s…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A six-person commission redrawing Idaho’s 35 legislative districts from which voters will…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The mayor of Portland, Oregon, is expected to seek about $400,000 next month to hire back 25 recent police retirees to fill…
Continue ReadingRATHRDRUM, Idaho (AP) — Two people were injured after a northern Idaho home exploded following a natural gas leak on Thursday. Tyler Drechsel with…
Continue ReadingGREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A former longshot Idaho gubernatorial candidate on trial in the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl says he…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Native tribes in the U.S. West are making progress toward restoring their ancient…
Continue ReadingBy JOHN FLESHER AP Environmental Writer WEITCHPEC, Calif. (AP) — Native tribes in the U.S. West are making progress toward restoring their ancient…
Continue ReadingBy CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Policing and public safety dominated the last televised debate between the two people vying to be…
Continue Reading