Tense days in Legislature ahead of OR redistricting deadline
By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report For America In the final days leading up to Oregon’s redistricting deadline, state House Democrats remain…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report For America In the final days leading up to Oregon’s redistricting deadline, state House Democrats remain…
Continue ReadingWALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A day after a school board meeting in Walla Walla, Washington was halted because of a person protesting COVID-19 mask…
Continue ReadingBy RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is extending the state’s eviction protections through…
Continue ReadingBLAINE, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Department of Agriculture says it has destroyed another nest built by Asian giant hornets north of…
Continue ReadingREDMOND, Ore. (AP) — A school board in Redmond, Oregon, has rejected a district recommendation to fire a teacher for refusing to wear a mask during…
Continue ReadingRIGBY, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in eastern Idaho say a 13-year-old girl has been taken into custody after having a firearm at Rigby Middle School.…
Continue ReadingCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The board of trustees of a northern Idaho community college has fired the school’s president in what one…
Continue ReadingFILER, Idaho (AP) — A south-central Idaho school district with about 1,600 students is temporarily closing its schools due to not having enough…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s most populous county has reached a deal with unions representing most of its employees that extends the…
Continue ReadingWALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Police were called to a Walla Walla School Board meeting because a man refused to wear a mask and disrupted the…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An attorney says Idaho should adopt a health policy making vaccine status a private medical…
Continue ReadingBy SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push to expand a U.S. compensation…
Continue ReadingSALMON, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho bow hunter who was looking for a shortcut instead found the remains of another hunter who had been missing for 53…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America A broken power-sharing deal, the lingering possibility of a Republican walkout and a COVID-19 case…
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho state lawmaker has not yet turned himself in to face a rape charge despite a warrant being issued nearly two…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — An immigrant rights activist who had been facing deportation says she can now remain in the U.S.,…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says the city’s eviction moratoriums will remain in place through Jan. 15, 2022, rather than expiring…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Following reports of a positive COVID-19 case in the Oregon Capitol, legislators have been sent…
Continue ReadingYELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Rescue crews in Yellowstone National Park have recovered the body of a 67-year-old Washington state man and…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State officials have rejected an investment firm’s request to reconsider its massive…
Continue ReadingSALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will charge campers from outside the state a 25% surcharge for RV sites in dozens of campgrounds because of increased…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Health care workers are exhausted and angry. Some of Idaho’s coronavirus vaccines are…
Continue ReadingBy STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Six Native American tribes are suing Wisconsin to try to stop its planned wolf hunt in November. They assert that…
Continue ReadingEVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Lawsuits have been filed in several western Washington counties claiming auditors used uncertified voting equipment and…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America The Democratic speaker of the Oregon House has rescinded a deal she made with Republicans to share…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inlsee has asked the federal government for assistance staffing hospitals and long-term care facilities…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Lawmakers on a committee that considers state sovereignty issues have bumped up their planned…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are investigating after a central Idaho hospital was vandalized with spray-painted…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — This has been a record-breaking year of drought in much of Eastern Washington. The…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s top prison official says pay raises and bonuses should help ease a shortfall in prison workers. Idaho Department…
Continue ReadingFEDERAL WAY, Wash. (AP) — Police in Washington state are searching for a man they say vandalized a Sikh temple south of Seattle in what’s being…
Continue ReadingLEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A United Airlines plane tipped backward while being unloaded in Idaho, with passengers including part of the University of…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — A person has drowned in eastern Idaho after a drift boat carrying a group down the Henry’s Fork River hit a rock, ejecting…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Utility crews were working to restore power to thousands of customers in northwest Washington state after weekend storms downed…
Continue ReadingJASON CHATRAW Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jaylen Warren rushed for 218 yards and two touchdowns, Oklahoma State pitched a second-half…
Continue ReadingBy GARY HOROWITZ Associated Press CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State took care of business against FCS opponent Idaho, dominating from the outset…
Continue ReadingCALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Officials at a southwestern Idaho public charter school say the school’s principal has died due to COVID-19. The…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tree experts in Oregon say the effects of the drought and heat on trees won’t be fully known until next spring. Oregon…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican officials are warning President Joe Biden of legal action if his proposed…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal circuit court has rejected a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statewide Idaho…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE, IRIS SAMUELS AND LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in…
Continue ReadingBAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are stepping up efforts to kill wolves from a pack in eastern Oregon due to continued attacks by the animals…
Continue ReadingBy JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and…
Continue ReadingWEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A 19-year-old Rhode Island woman suffered “significant thermal burns” in Yellowstone National Park. Park…
Continue ReadingJACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators say human remains found in a reservoir on the Wyoming-Idaho state line have been identified as a kayaker who…
Continue ReadingDALLAS, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Medical Board has revoked the license of a doctor in the small city of Dallas west of Salem for refusing to follow…
Continue ReadingIdaho’s public health leaders have expanded health care rationing statewide amid a massive increase in the number of coronavirus patients requiring…
Continue ReadingSEATTLE (AP) — Seattle and King County officials have issued a health directive requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test to enter…
Continue ReadingBy MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor says the state will ask the federal government to remove its…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A convicted rapist set for release from Washington state’s McNeil Island Special Commitment Center has been arrested…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Officials in Washington state are upset that the Biden administration is challenging…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A Pocatello, Idaho, funeral home that is under investigation was targeted due to a cremation chamber badly damaged in an…
Continue ReadingBy IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Critical care resources are at maximum capacity at St. Peter’s…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In another ominous sign about the spread of the delta variant, Idaho public health leaders…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho expands health care rationing statewide amid massive increase in state’s number of hospitalized COVID-19…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has scrapped a plan to boycott Texas…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says federal protections may need to be restored for gray wolves…
Continue ReadingBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Biden administration says wolves may need protections restored in western US after states make it easier to kill…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An attempt by far-right lawmakers to form a quorum at the Statehouse that they say would have…
Continue ReadingNAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the International Rescue Committee in Boise say roughly 400 Afghan refugees will resettle in Idaho over the next…
Continue ReadingIdaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state’s most populated region as hospitals continue to be…
Continue ReadingBy MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CUSTER CITY, S.D. (AP) — Government scientists say the pace of logging in South Dakota’s Black Hills National…
Continue ReadingSome Idaho lawmakers say a proposed meeting by far-right House members hoping to form a quorum at the Statehouse and force the Legislature to…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state’s…
Continue ReadingBy KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — An Idaho man who served more than four years in federal custody for his part in an armed 2014…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some Idaho lawmakers say a proposed meeting by far-right House members hoping to form a quorum…
Continue ReadingBy TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of American Indian tribes are demanding the Biden administration enact emergency…
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA JAFFE and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press ARVADA, Colo. (AP) — President Joe Biden tried to advance his domestic spending plans by…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — During the weekend, Oregon surpassed 300,000 confirmed and presumptive…
Continue ReadingBy GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Washington hospital officials say the state is facing its own COVID-19 crisis and has little…
Continue ReadingBy CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America Across the U.S., vaccine-hesitant parents are struggling with vaccine-seeking teenagers set…
Continue ReadingAssociated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Environmental groups have filed notice they plan to sue Gov. Greg Gianforte’s administration after it…
Continue ReadingIDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A man has died and at least four students have been hospitalized after a school bus and pickup truck collided in eastern…
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Boise, Idaho, during a visit by…
Continue ReadingPULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — There’s been an uptick in the number of Pacific Northwest white-tailed deer dying of viruses that typically infects…
Continue ReadingBy ALEXANDRA JAFFE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press MATHER, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is using his first Western swing since taking…
Continue ReadingBLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Officials say they’ve destroyed a second nest of Asian giant hornets found in northwestern Washington state this year…
Continue ReadingBOUNTIFUL, Utah (AP) — Police in Utah say an Idaho man was arrested Sunday after he rammed a police car with his truck and tried to hit two other…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Northern Idaho has a long and deep streak of antigovernment activism…
Continue ReadingRENO, Nev. (AP) — Carson Strong threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns, and Nevada beat Idaho State 49-10. Strong completed 34 of 43 passes that…
Continue ReadingBy MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Michael Penix Jr. threw two touchdown passes and ran for another and the Indiana…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Tyhee Road in north Bannock County was closed Friday afternoon after a train struck a truck pulling an empty trailer. Idaho…
Continue ReadingBy JASON CHATRAW Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hank Bachmeier threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns, and Stefan Cobbs added a special teams…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An arrest warrant has been issued for a former Idaho lawmaker who resigned in disgrace after a 19-year-old intern reported…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Oregon and clog the medical system,…
Continue ReadingBLAINE, Wash. (AP) — State officials say a second nest of murder hornets has been located this year in northwestern Washington state near the…
Continue ReadingBOISE, Idaho (AP) — President Joe Biden will be in Boise, Idaho Monday to visit the National Interagency Fire Center. Biden’s trip to the western…
Continue ReadingPOCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Police say the remains of roughly 50 fetuses found at a Pocatello, Idaho, funeral home were part of a biological collection…
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — A Colorado trucker who nearly killed a Black man by slashing his neck in an unprovoked attack at an eastern Oregon truck stop…
Continue ReadingBy SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials from Multnomah County joined Portland in exempting law…
Continue ReadingBy NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Newly released legal documents say Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few’s breath…
Continue ReadingBy RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Starting next week, the state’s indoor mask mandate will be expanded to include outdoor…
Continue ReadingSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters are working to quash new fires ignited by lightning after thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of…
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Vancouver, Washington, man has been sentenced in Clark County Superior Court to 20 years in prison for the murder of…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Roughly 11,000 kids in Coeur d’Alene were getting ready for their first day of school when…
Continue ReadingBy KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is set to campaign for California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the final…
Continue ReadingST. ANTHONY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has decided an Idaho woman charged with conspiring with her new husband to kill her two children is still not fit…
Continue ReadingVANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A judge in southwest Washington state has granted an injunction prohibiting protests, rallies or other gatherings that…
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