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Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Tens of millions of dollars raised by a landmark climate law in Washington state will go to Native American tribes…

Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The families of two construction workers killed when an airport hangar in Idaho collapsed are suing several…

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. persisted on Sunday,…

Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that…

Associated Press To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court allows emergency abortions in Idaho for now in a reversal foreshadowed by a prematurely posted…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests,…

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee prepares to become the second U.S. state to enact a ban against adults…

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As Tennessee prepares to become the second U.S. state to enact a ban against adults helping minors get an…

Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A jury awarded $13.1 million to an ultramarathon athlete who was severely injured when she fell on a Seattle…

By CLAIRE SAVAGE Associated Press Idaho librarian June Meissner was closing up for the day at the downtown Boise Public Library when a man approached…

SEATTLE (AP) — A judge has paused parts of a new Washington state parental rights law derided by critics as a “forced outing” measure. King…

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI Associated Press A relentless heat wave continued to bake most of the United States on Friday, with numerous areas expected to…

ARCO, Idaho (AP) — Two crop dusting airplanes collided near an airport in southern Idaho on Thursday and crashed to the ground, killing one of the…

BLUESTEM, Wash. (AP) — Two men died in a helicopter crash in eastern Washington state, authorities said. Lincoln County Fire District 6 Chief…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press A suburban Seattle officer who fatally shot a homeless man in 2019 ignored his training and should be convicted…

By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old growth…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government on Tuesday acknowledged for the first time the harms that the construction and…

SEATTLE (AP) — US government for the first time acknowledges how damming of Pacific Northwest rivers devastated region’s Native…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, who was a Spokane lawyer with little political experience when…

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A former nurse at a southern Oregon hospital is facing criminal charges that she harmed nearly four dozen patients by stealing…

By EUGENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — BNSF Railway must pay nearly $400 million to a Native American tribe in Washington state, a…

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Heat and cold extremes are expected this week in the U.S. Officials warned Southwest residents to…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A judge could soon decide on a trial date for a man charged in the deaths of four University…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Emergency crews in Oregon rescued 30 people Friday after they were stuck for close to half an hour dangling upside down high…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Supreme Court ‘s ruling on technical grounds Thursday keeps the abortion pill mifepristone available in…

By MATTHEW BROWN, MEAD GRUVER AND AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Standing at the edge of a bluff…

By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration’s new Title IX rule expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students…

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in…

By STEVEN DuBOIS and JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press Neil Goldschmidt, a former Oregon governor whose confession that he had sex with a…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press An off-duty security guard has been charged with murder after authorities say he stopped three teens outside a…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Party Bus, a three-year-old bull bred for bucking, has performed in his first and last rodeo.…

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Police in northern Idaho lost millions of dollars worth of law enforcement equipment and vehicles in a fire that…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota…

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The federal Bureau of Land Management’s preferred alternative for a proposed large-scale wind energy farm in southern…

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police in two different cities in western Washington state shot two people over the weekend, officials said. In southwest…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A landslide that wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming is causing a mountain of…

SISTERS, Ore. (AP) — A rodeo bull hopped a fence surrounding an Oregon arena and ran through a concession area into a parking lot, injuring at…

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — A massive chunk of the meandering Teton Pass has collapsed, leaving a gaping dirt gash along the mountain pass that is a…

By GENE JOHNSON and AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise”…

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, has been killed in a plane crash in Washington…

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are responding to reports of a plane crash Friday near the San Juan Islands in Washington state. The size…

By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press KENT, Wash. (AP) — Kabongo Kambila Ringo stood outside the tent where he has been staying with his pregnant wife…

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Republican backers of three initiatives that could change important state policies are suing to keep each measure’s…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man who escaped from Oregon’s state psychiatric hospital while fully shackled and was later found floundering in a muddy…

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — An 83-year-old woman was gored and seriously injured by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. The woman from…

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Pacific Power, part of PacifiCorp, said Monday it has agreed to a $178 settlement with over…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — PacifiCorp will pay $178 million to Oregon wildfire victims in latest multimillion-dollar settlement from 2020…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Chad Daybell sentenced to death for murder of wife and girlfriend’s 2 youngest children in Idaho doomsday…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Jurors resumed deliberations Saturday on whether a man should be sentenced to death after being convicted days earlier of the…

Oregon utility regulators have rejected a request from PacifiCorp that sought to limit its liability in wildfire lawsuits. Under the proposal,…