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By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — People in Oregon, regardless of vaccination status, will once again be…

SEATTLE (AP) — More than 70% of people 12 and older have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. King County Executive Dow Constantine on…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The former manager of a construction business owned by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs in Oregon has pleaded guilty…

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) — Ku Stevens says the significance of his “Remembrance Run” didn’t sink in until the end of the 50-mile trek from Carson…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Police in Portland, Oregon, say they’re looking for a second shooter, after bullets were fired downtown during weekend…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Supreme Court has rejected a new law designed to make it harder for voters to get…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — One of two U.S. District judges for Idaho announced seven months ago that he’d take senior status in August, but there’s…

By ANDREW SELSKY and SARA CLINE Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon was once the poster child for limiting the spread of the coronavirus,…

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Two new laws aimed at expanding voter access in Oregon are under fire from a conservative group that argues the changes will…

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) — Ku Stevens says the significance of his “Remembrance Run” didn’t sink in until the end of the 50-mile trek from Carson…

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Hilary Knight tied former U.S. star Cammi Granato’s record for goals in women’s world hockey championship play with 44…

By JEREMY WEBER Daily Inter Lake LIBBY, Mont. (AP) — An organization based in northwestern Montana is continuing a 160-year tradition of…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Opposing rallies that drew hundreds of people in Portland, Oregon, are sparking clashes Sunday. The two groups had gathered…

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s announcement of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for state workers comes at a time when the state…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Demonstrations are expected between opposing groups in downtown Portland,…

A major state employees union is criticizing Gov. Jay Inslee’s implementation of a broad COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Inslee last week ordered state…

By MATTHEW BROWN and JOHN FLESHER Associated Press FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is sticking by former President…

FARIBAULT, Minn. (AP) — Biden sticks with Trump decision to lift US wolf protections, but officials have worries over states’ aggressive…

BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say they have found the first Asian giant hornet nest of 2021 in a rural area in Washington state. The nest was…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — County officials in Idaho have agreed to pay $350,000 to four former jail nurses to settle a…

SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say there are more people hospitalized with COVID-19 in Washington state than at any time during the pandemic. Cassie…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho students lost some academic ground during the coronavirus pandemic, with standardized…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest school district will require all employees to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. The Oregonian/OregonLive…

FORD, Wash. (AP) — Officials say strong winds on Monday led to fire growth in central and eastern Washington that prompted new mandatory…

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Missouri family alleges in a federal lawsuit that Yellowstone National Park rangers and…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Sen. Dianne Feinstein is calling on federal land managers to conduct an investigation to…

By TERENCE CHEA, ETHAN SWOPE and JOHN ANTCZAK Associated Press GRIZZLY FLATS, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric says it has begun shutting…

MOOSE, Wyo. (AP) — Grand Teton National Park just had its busiest month on record. July is almost always the busiest month for tourism in the park…

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in eastern Idaho say a man was electrocuted after jumping on a power transformer in Idaho Falls. The Idaho…

QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling flames in Northern California forests are girding for new bouts of windy weather, and a utility has…

By EUGENE GARCIA and CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of Northern California homes remain threatened by the…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An investment firm whose land-swap proposal in the McCall area was rejected by state land…

SUMAN NAISHADHAM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate this week includes funding…

By EUGENE GARCIA and DAISY NGUYEN Associated Press QUINCY, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling the Dixie Fire face “another critical day” as…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge has tossed most of the civil claims brought in a wrongful death suit by the family of an Arizona rancher who…

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz has fired the two police officers who authorities say violated…

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon governor deploying up to 1,500 National Guard troops to support hospitals as COVID cases…

GEORGE, Wash. (AP) — Health officials say over 160 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed so far in people who attended the Watershed Music Festival…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney has issued an order forming the six-member commission that will redraw Idaho’s…

LAKEVIEW, Ore. (AP) — Two new wildfires started by lightning Thursday afternoon are growing rapidly in southeastern Oregon not too far from the…

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Washington State University has announced students will soon no longer be able to cite a “personal or philosophical”…

By SCOTT SONNER Associated Press RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are accusing federal land managers of illegally withholding information about…

By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press Patients left on beds in hospital hallways, their monitoring machines beeping away as too few doctors and nurses…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little is directing $30 million to expand COVID-19 testing in K-12 schools.…

By DAVID A. LIEB and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press The once-a-decade battle over redistricting is set to be a showdown over the suburbs, as new…

NEWBERG, Ore. (AP) — The school board in Newberg, Oregon, has voted to ban on pride flags, flags reading Black Lives Matter and any broadly…

SEATTLE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington is trying to keep a proposed Seattle charter amendment about homelessness off the…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An investment firm says state officials erroneously over-appraised the value of state land in…

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — Local health leaders are looking into a COVID-19 outbreak linked to an outdoor music festival in eastern Oregon. KATU-TV…

By SARA CLINE Associated Press/Report for America PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced a statewide indoor mask requirement…

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press ROCKFORD, Wash. (AP) — A drought in eastern Washington state that is the worst since 1977 has devastated…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Boise man who was arrested on a trespassing charge after entering private businesses and refusing to wear a mask has notified…

By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho’s largest independent primary medical care system is reporting coronavirus numbers…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A grizzly bear that fatally mauled a Montana man near Yellowstone National Park this…

By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Wildlife officials say an emergency trap-and-truck operation of Idaho-bound endangered sockeye…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is facing unprecedented drought despite getting normal snow levels last winter, and water managers warn the state could…