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By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The City Council in Portland, Oregon, has delayed a vote on an expected…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Authorities have positively identified five bodies found at a Pocatello, Idaho, funeral home that is under investigation…

LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A recent increase in COVID-19 deaths has overwhelmed a southwest Washington county’s storage capacity, prompting the…

COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few has been cited for driving under the influence and said he exhibited “poor…

BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — An Idaho man charged with assaulting police in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has pleaded guilty. The Idaho Statesman…

SEATTLE (AP) — King County is working to set up a COVID-19 vaccine verification system that could go into effect next month at certain…

By MANDY GODWIN InvestigateWest Biochar ambassadors hope to save Washington state’s Methow Valley, which has been ravaged by the effects of…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho public health leaders are letting the state’s northern hospitals ration health…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho enacts ‘crisis standards of care’ as COVID surge overwhelms hospitals, warns some patients won’t get…

By MICHAEL MAROT AP Sports Writer The Indiana Hoosiers took soaring hopes into their season opener. At No. 17, they had their highest preseason…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Thousands of wildfires burn in the U.S. each year, and each one requires…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press SARATOGA, Wyo. (AP) — The North Platte River in southern Wyoming is flowing low, slow and warm — not great…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho State University says bodies that were to be donated to the school for educational purposes were never received from…

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — CJ Jordan passed for two touchdowns and ran for another and the Idaho Vandals posted their first shutout victory since 2010…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Three schools in Vancouver, Washington, were placed in lockdown Friday after anti-mask protesters tried to access school…

SEATTLE (AP) — A charter amendment that would change Seattle’s approach to homelessness will not appear on the November ballot, after an…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to take immediate action to improve fish passage at dams in…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Police in Pocatello, Idaho, are investigating a local funeral home after they said a state health inspector contacted them…

By ANDREW SELSKY and SARA CLINE Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — With Oregon getting an additional congressional seat based on population…

By CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Isaiah Bowser rushed 172 yards including the the go-ahead touchdown with 4:16 remaining…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Intensive care beds are full of unvaccinated coronavirus patients at a hospital in Boise,…

SEATTLE (AP) — Due to a surge in COVID-19 cases Washington state’s most populous county is reinstating outdoor mask mandates for large events and…

SEATTLE (AP) — Sports betting in tribal casinos in Washington could be offered in some by the opening week of the NFL season. The Seattle Times…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Workers in an area at the center of the Hanford nuclear reservation were ordered to take cover for several hours. The…

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — At least two Idaho state lawmakers received threatening letters concerning their votes on a law intended to drastically…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal appeals court’s decision allowing a Texas fetal heartbeat law to take effect…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Tina Kotek, the Speaker of the Oregon House, is running for governor. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat like Kotek, cannot run for…

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — Hanford nuclear reservation workers who do not provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination will be required to be tested at least…

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — A wildfire burning a few miles north of Moscow, Idaho, was threatening buildings and prompting mandatory evacuations. The fire…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The backers of a measure that would change Seattle’s approach to homelessness are appealing a…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little is calling in 220 medical workers available through federal programs…

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — A search of Olympic National Park for an armed and “potentially dangerous” man has kept parts of the park near Port…

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The parents of a former south-central Idaho middle school student have filed a lawsuit against the school district…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — City employees in Portland, Oregon, must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus — or obtain a medical or religious…

REEDSPORT, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a 54-year-old man was rescued from the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area after being stranded for five…

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Attorneys general from 20 states have sued President Joe Biden’s administration…

COLFAX, Wash. (AP) — The longtime chief of the Colfax, Washington, fire department died from an apparent heart attack while fighting a wildfire…

CHUBBUCK, Idaho (AP) — An elderly woman was injured and dozens of residents were displaced in a Sunday evening fire at a Chubbuck apartment…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State officials are boosting pay and offering bonuses to try to attract and maintain correctional officers. The Idaho…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Hilary Knight had two goals and an assist to break Cammi Granato’s U.S. points record in women’s world hockey…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press BEND, Ore. (AP) — The death toll from COVID-19 in Oregon is climbing so rapidly in some counties that the state…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Record low numbers of steelhead are returning to the Columbia River this year, prompting conservationists and anglers alike…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Empty cow pastures on one day can be bustling with hundreds of firefighters the next as fire…

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state judge has struck a Seattle measure on homelessness from the November ballot even…

By ANDREW SELSKY and SARA CLINE Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Noting that the COVID delta variant is spreading like wildfire among the…

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — A new study presented to state officials say students suffered significant academic setbacks during the coronavirus…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group that wants to end public-land grazing has outbid a rancher in central…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The far-right Proud Boys and far-left antifascists clashed last weekend for…

By COLLIN BINKLEY and CAMILLE FASSETT Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — While many schools scrambled to shift to online classes last year, the…

By BEN FINLEY and SUDHIN THANAWALA Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The latest surge in coronavirus cases is overwhelming many of the nation’s…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Jamie Lee Rattray scored twice and Canada overwhelmed the United States 5-1 on Thursday night in the women’s world hockey…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hospital facilities and public health agencies are scrambling to add capacity as the number…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Connecticut woman has been sentenced to seven days in jail and is banned from…

REDMOND, Ore. (AP) — A school board in central Oregon, where COVID-19 is surging, has passed a resolution protesting statewide school mask mandates…

SEATTLE (AP) — Judges say crime and public safety issues around the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle are causing potential jurors to…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The state of Washington has ordered the killing of one or two wolves from the Togo…

By SUDHIN THANAWALA and JAY REEVES Associated Press Kentucky and Texas have joined a growing list of states that have surpassed their record for…

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — State wildlife officials have authorized a fish salvage and eliminated limits on how many fish can be taken at two…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — State officials have destroyed the first Asian giant hornet nest of the season,…

By SAM METZ and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — A community on the shore of Lake Tahoe issued an emergency…

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Authorities believe one gunman killed three people and wounded another during a spree of shootings and arsons in eastern…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A 68-year-old woman who owned and operated massage parlors in Montana has pleaded guilty to federal charges alleging she…

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — The hot, dry and smoky growing season has left some Idaho potato farmers bracing for a poor crop. Randy Hardy of Oakley…

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon will deploy “crisis teams” of hundreds of nurses, respiratory therapists,…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — With COVID-19 cases surging in Oregon, at least four school districts have delayed their start date. The Alsea School District…

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Fire chiefs and union leaders in Pierce County, Washington, say about 30 percent of their departments or membership have yet…

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — An electric utility has completed its plan to more than double the amount of potential wind power it can send to customers in…

By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press A federal report finds that in the run up to the 2020 presidential election U.S. states and territories had spent…

PASCO, Wash. (AP) — The regular meeting of the Franklin, Washington, County commissioners disintegrated into a rally against the state’s mask…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s hospitals are bursting at the seams as coronavirus numbers continue to skyrocket…

PAHRUMP, Nev. (AP) — A prosecutor says an Arizona man arrested after a head-on crash that killed three members of an Idaho family on a rural Nevada…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has authorized the killing of two more wolves, several weeks after the state fatally…

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is trying to bring back Idaho’s state tree to its former prominence. Western white pine were…