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Red Cross announces new disaster program manager for E. Oregon, Idaho, Montana
BOISE — The Red Cross of Montana, Idaho and Eastern Oregon has a new senior community disaster program ...
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A little known climate phenomenon is gaining attention and causing problems
PORTLAND — In June and July of 2021, a large, immovable “dome” of hot, high-pressure air enveloped the ...
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Updates at Walla Walla Regional Airport on track to be complete by June
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Despite the construction noise and dust, renovations at the Walla Walla Regional Airport have ...
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Wolves, water, wildfire — extremes kept on getting more extreme
HOOD RIVER — In May, Aja DeCoteau, a citizen of the Yakama Nation, became the first Native American ...
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Survivors, police frustrated with low convictions as reported sex trafficking soars in Washington, Oregon
SEATTLE — Prosecutor Ben Gauen recognized all the signs. He knew that the teenager who’d been screaming for ...
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Compensation is key to fixing primary care shortage
WASHINGTON — Money talks. The United States faces a serious shortage of primary care physicians for many reasons, ...
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Left-wing activists worry anti-doxxing laws will target them
SALEM — Arguably the most powerful weapon of anti-fascist groups in the Northwest is information. Anonymous squads of ...
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Combining forest thinning and mass timber construction may reduce forest fires
COLVILLE, Wash. — Deep in the Colville National Forest in Eastern Washington state, Russ Vaagen is pointing to ...
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NOAA outlook favors warmer-than-normal winter for Pacific Northwest
SALEM — An El Nino likely will make the Pacific Northwest warmer than normal this winter and cause ...
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News of the weird: With salmon at risk of extinction, California begins urgent rescue effort
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Typically, now is the time when creeks along the Sacramento River are filled with young ...