Oregon’s unemployment rate was 3.5% in July, unchanged from the revised 3.5% figure in June, the Oregon Employment Department reported Wednesday.…
Continue ReadingRICHLAND, Wash. (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting a man inside Richland’s Fred Meyer store was ordered to take mental health…
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By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CODY, Wyo. (AP) — The rush to build wind farms to combat climate change is colliding with preservation of one of…
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The day after Oregon Supreme Court Chief Justice Martha Walters fired all nine members of the state commission that oversees…
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By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s gubernatorial election took a step closer Tuesday to being a three-way race…
Continue ReadingEUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The University of Oregon’s Board of Trustees on Tuesday named an interim president in the wake of President Michael Schill…
Continue ReadingPHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Maryland-based lender deceived its loan customers by selling them insurance policies they didn’t ask for or know about…
Continue ReadingBy KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Tuesday confirmed that he’s considering calling a special…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Testimony resumed this week in the sentencing hearing for a man who killed one classmate and wounded three others at Freeman…
Continue ReadingPORT ORCHARD, Wash. (AP) — A Port Orchard, Washington, man has been sentenced to three years of probation, including 30 days of intermittent…
Continue ReadingCOEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Four more members of the white nationalist hate group Patriot Front pleaded not guilty Monday in Coeur d’Alene…
Continue ReadingBELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A Canadian trucker was sentenced to four years in prison for smuggling more than $2.5 million of methamphetamine from the…
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By DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press ALONG THE COLUMBIA RIVER (AP) — James Kiona stands on a rocky ledge overlooking Lyle Falls where the water froths…
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Oregon State Police said Monday they have identified a man and woman who were killed in the crash of a stolen car last week off state Highway 293 in…
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“Frankly, our people have been kicking butt,” said the Oregon Department of Forestry’s Tim Holschbach, Deputy Chief of Policy and Planning for…
Continue ReadingBy REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A federal judge says the Idaho Legislature can intervene in the U.S. Department of…
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While a few larger wildfires are being fought around the Northwest, some not far from Central Oregon, another small blaze was stopped at a half-acre…
Continue ReadingSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane County Sheriff’s Office recovered a body from the Spokane River on Friday afternoon. The Sheriff Office’s…
Continue ReadingBy TIFFANY ECKERT KLCC SALEM, Ore. (AP) — New state regulations now allow recreational crabbers to catch triple the number of invasive green crabs…
Continue ReadingSHORELINE, Wash. (AP) — A 36-year-old man was charged Friday with first-degree murder in connection with a robbery in Shoreline last month, King…
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