New ‘Megaload’ To Travel Idaho Scenic Route
A 260-ton piece of equipment is winding its way through the inland Northwest this week. The Idaho Department of Transportation gave the green light to a shipper moving water purification equipment into...
View ArticleOregon Panel Considers Competing Proposals For Renaming "Squaw" Creeks
It’s an issue that Idaho has dealt with over the years with dozens of creeks, canyons, peaks and springs with names that use a word offensive to many Native Americans. Now Oregon is also struggling...
View ArticleGrowing Latino Electorate Reflected In NW Candidates
Exit polls show Latino voters helped push President Obama to victory on Tuesday. But there was another sign of the growing influence of Hispanics in the Northwest on election day: That was the actual...
View ArticleOregon Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Look To Washington For Inspiration
Gay rights groups hope Oregon will be the next state to legalize same-sex marriage at the ballot. Washington did that this week. But to follow suit, Oregon voters would have to reverse themselves and...
View ArticleConcerts Canceled As Spokane Symphony Strikes
Classical musicians in Spokane stood outside their theater this weekend, lifting picket signs instead of instruments.Musicians with the Spokane Symphony are entering week two of a strike over pay cuts....
View ArticleNorthwest Growers Expand Olive Tree Operations
Groves of olive trees might bring to mind sun-soaked Mediterranean or Californian landscapes. But in the last 10 years, a few Northwest growers have significantly ramped-up their production of domestic...
View ArticleIdaho Opens Season On Wolf Trapping
The gray wolf remains on state endangered species lists in Oregon and Washington. But in Idaho, the state opens wolf trapping season Thursday. In fact, Idaho plans to offer more tags than last year....
View ArticleA Plumaged Pilgrimage: How Wild Turkeys Came To The Northwest
The turkey is a quintessentially American bird, exported from the New World like corn and potatoes. But the turkey is not native to the Pacific Northwest. The wild turkeys you may have seen here are...
View ArticleHigh Winds, Heavy Rain Pummel The Northwest
High winds and heavy rain are pummeling the Northwest Monday. Downed trees and floodwaters have closed countless roads, making the evening commute a difficult one.I'm standing on a bridge over Mill...
View ArticleNorthwest's Rural Gay Community Coming Out Of The Shadows
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Washington legalizes same-sex marriage next month at a time when the geography of the Northwest’s gay and lesbian population is changing. Their numbers are still largest in...
View ArticleNorthwest Tribes Begin To Try Reservation Crime Cases Under Tougher Laws
A tribal court on the Umatilla Indian Reservation is one of the first to hand-down a long prison term under new tougher criminal sentencing laws enacted by Congress in 2010.It used to be that tribes...
View ArticleAfter 8 Years, Spokane Pastor Will Perform Marriages, Gay And Straight
Reverend Todd Eklof made a vow in 2004 -- the year 11 states, including Oregon and Kentucky -- passed constitutional amendments against gay marriage. He stopped performing any marriages. But starting...
View ArticleNate Silver Meets Recess: Crunching Data In Schools
The kind of finely tuned data crunching that fueled the 2012 election is spreading to another venue: the classroom. You might have heard that campaign analysts can predict who you're likely vote for...
View ArticleNorthwest Scientists Seek New Ways To Trace Chemical Weapons
RICHLAND, Wash. -- President Barack Obama has been publicly warning Syria’s leaders not to use chemical weapons against their own people. The news is unexpectedly relevant in southeast Washington....
View ArticlePeople Run For Their Lives At Portland, Ore. Mall Shooting
Police say three people are dead, including the gunman, after a shooting at a shopping mall in suburban Portland, Oregon.Clackamas County sheriff's Lt. James Rhodes says the gunman fatally shot two...
View ArticleFeds To Review Endangered Status Of Northwest's Reindeer
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho - The protected status of a small population of reindeer in the Northwest is getting a second look. Snowmobilers and an Idaho county that depends on winter snow sports petitioned...
View ArticleArmy Orders Death Penalty Trial For Sgt. Bales
The U.S. Army will seek the death penalty against Staff Sgt. Robert Bales. The Army announced Wednesday the Washington-based soldier will face a general court-martial for allegedly killing 16 Afghan...
View ArticleRecent Reports Spur Controversy Over Hanford's Waste Treatment Plant
RICHLAND, Wash. – News out of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation can sometimes sound like just one critical report after another. In fact, last week a federal watchdog agency said Hanford’s massive...
View ArticleElectric Car Sales Booming In Seattle And Portland, Not Idaho
The automaker Nissan says sales of its fully electric Leaf compact surpassed all other Nissan models at dealers in the Seattle and Portland areas this spring. Wednesday's announcement runs counter to...
View ArticleCareful Wheat Farmers, Seed Purveyors Say Mistakes Still Happen
There’s been a lot of speculation but few answers so far about how genetically modified wheat ended up in an Oregon field. Northwest farmers and seed purveyors say they go to great lengths to keep each...
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