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WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — A day after a school board meeting in Walla Walla, Washington was halted because of a person protesting COVID-19 mask…

By RACHEL LA CORTE Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is extending the state’s eviction protections through…

BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — The Washington State Department of Agriculture says it has destroyed another nest built by Asian giant hornets north of…

RIGBY, 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.…

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The board of trustees of a northern Idaho community college has fired the school’s president in what one…

FILER, Idaho (AP) — A south-central Idaho school district with about 1,600 students is temporarily closing its schools due to not having enough…

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state’s most populous county has reached a deal with unions representing most of its employees that extends the…

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) — Police were called to a Walla Walla School Board meeting because a man refused to wear a mask and disrupted the…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An attorney says Idaho should adopt a health policy making vaccine status a private medical…

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers is renewing a push to expand a U.S. compensation…

SALMON, 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…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America A broken power-sharing deal, the lingering possibility of a Republican walkout and a COVID-19 case…

LEWISTON, 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…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan says the city’s eviction moratoriums will remain in place through Jan. 15, 2022, rather than expiring…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America Following reports of a positive COVID-19 case in the Oregon Capitol, legislators have been sent…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State officials have rejected an investment firm’s request to reconsider its massive…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Health care workers are exhausted and angry. Some of Idaho’s coronavirus vaccines are…

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press Six Native American tribes are suing Wisconsin to try to stop its planned wolf hunt in November. They assert that…

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Lawsuits have been filed in several western Washington counties claiming auditors used uncertified voting equipment and…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America The Democratic speaker of the Oregon House has rescinded a deal she made with Republicans to share…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inlsee has asked the federal government for assistance staffing hospitals and long-term care facilities…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Police are investigating after a central Idaho hospital was vandalized with spray-painted…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — This has been a record-breaking year of drought in much of Eastern Washington. The…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s top prison official says pay raises and bonuses should help ease a shortfall in prison workers. Idaho Department…

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A United Airlines plane tipped backward while being unloaded in Idaho, with passengers including part of the University of…

BOISE, 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…

SEATTLE (AP) — Utility crews were working to restore power to thousands of customers in northwest Washington state after weekend storms downed…

JASON CHATRAW Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jaylen Warren rushed for 218 yards and two touchdowns, Oklahoma State pitched a second-half…

PORTLAND, 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…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Republican officials are warning President Joe Biden of legal action if his proposed…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal circuit court has rejected a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency statewide Idaho…

By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is moving the headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management back…

By REBECCA BOONE, IRIS SAMUELS AND LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As the spread of the delta variant continues unabated in…

BAKER CITY, Ore. (AP) — Authorities are stepping up efforts to kill wolves from a pack in eastern Oregon due to continued attacks by the animals…

By JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden entered the White House promising to stop the twin health and…

WEST YELLOWSTONE, Mont. (AP) — A 19-year-old Rhode Island woman suffered “significant thermal burns” in Yellowstone National Park. Park…

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Investigators say human remains found in a reservoir on the Wyoming-Idaho state line have been identified as a kayaker who…

DALLAS, 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…

SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle and King County officials have issued a health directive requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test to enter…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming’s governor says the state will ask the federal government to remove its…

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A convicted rapist set for release from Washington state’s McNeil Island Special Commitment Center has been arrested…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Officials in Washington state are upset that the Biden administration is challenging…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A Pocatello, Idaho, funeral home that is under investigation was targeted due to a cremation chamber badly damaged in an…

By IRIS SAMUELS Associated Press/Report for America HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Critical care resources are at maximum capacity at St. Peter’s…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — In another ominous sign about the spread of the delta variant, Idaho public health leaders…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho expands health care rationing statewide amid massive increase in state’s number of hospitalized COVID-19…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Biden administration says wolves may need protections restored in western US after states make it easier to kill…

By 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…

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Officials with the International Rescue Committee in Boise say roughly 400 Afghan refugees will resettle in Idaho over the next…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CUSTER CITY, S.D. (AP) — Government scientists say the pace of logging in South Dakota’s Black Hills National…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s public health officials say crisis standards of care are imminent for the state’s…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Some Idaho lawmakers say a proposed meeting by far-right House members hoping to form a quorum…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of American Indian tribes are demanding the Biden administration enact emergency…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO Associated Press / Report for America Across the U.S., vaccine-hesitant parents are struggling with vaccine-seeking teenagers set…

IDAHO 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…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit…

By KEITH RIDLER and REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Boise, Idaho, during a visit by…

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — There’s been an uptick in the number of Pacific Northwest white-tailed deer dying of viruses that typically infects…

By ALEXANDRA JAFFE and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press MATHER, Calif. (AP) — President Joe Biden is using his first Western swing since taking…

BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Officials say they’ve destroyed a second nest of Asian giant hornets found in northwestern Washington state this year…

RENO, 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…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Michael Penix Jr. threw two touchdown passes and ran for another and the Indiana…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Tyhee Road in north Bannock County was closed Friday afternoon after a train struck a truck pulling an empty trailer. Idaho…

By JASON CHATRAW Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hank Bachmeier threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns, and Stefan Cobbs added a special teams…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — President Joe Biden will be in Boise, Idaho Monday to visit the National Interagency Fire Center. Biden’s trip to the western…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Police say the remains of roughly 50 fetuses found at a Pocatello, Idaho, funeral home were part of a biological collection…

EUGENE, 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…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Officials from Multnomah County joined Portland in exempting law…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Newly released legal documents say Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few’s breath…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Firefighters are working to quash new fires ignited by lightning after thunderstorms with mostly small but welcome amounts of…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A Vancouver, Washington, man has been sentenced in Clark County Superior Court to 20 years in prison for the murder of…

By 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…

ST. 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…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A judge in southwest Washington state has granted an injunction prohibiting protests, rallies or other gatherings that…