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This photo combo provided by Twin Falls County Sheriff&#039;s Office in Idaho shows from left, Nicholas Umphenour and Skylar Meade.  Meade and Umphenour  were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, about 36 hours after Umphenour shot two Idaho corrections officers as they were preparing to return Meade to prison from a hospital, police said. They were due to be arraigned Friday.

Deaths of dog walker, 83, and resident of a remote cabin possibly tied to escaped Idaho inmate

This photo combo provided by Twin Falls County Sheriff&#039;s Office in Idaho shows from left, Nicholas Umphenour and Skylar Meade.  Meade and Umphenour  were arrested in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, about 36 hours after Umphenour shot two Idaho corrections officers as they were preparing to return Meade to prison from a hospital, police said. They were due to be arraigned Friday.

March 22, 2024, 1:12pm Latest News

Authorities are investigating whether the deaths of an 83-year-old man who was walking his dogs and a 72-year-old man who lived in a remote cabin are connected to the escape of an Idaho white supremacist prison gang member and an accomplice after a Boise hospital ambush. Read story

Family of man killed in Seattle violence-prevention meeting sues nonprofit

March 22, 2024, 10:50am Nation & World

The family of a 19-year-old man fatally shot during a violence-reduction mentorship program meeting has filed a lawsuit alleging the nonprofit Community Passageways was negligent in his death and failed to provide adequate security. Read story

Dead inmate’s family sues Franklin County. She was in distress for days and got no help

March 22, 2024, 7:53am Northwest

Faviola Valenzuela wasn’t supposed to be in jail when she died in a Franklin County cell two years ago. Read story

Michael Grilliot, senior research scientist and operations manager, watches a drone flying over the Oso landslide as part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure RAPID Facility, funded by the National Science Foundation, Friday, March 8, 2024. The team was scouting in preparation of a "production" LiDAR drone flight scheduled for the following week, designed to monitor the landslide's changes.

For Oso landslide survivors, ‘Hope walks with the hurting’

Michael Grilliot, senior research scientist and operations manager, watches a drone flying over the Oso landslide as part of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure RAPID Facility, funded by the National Science Foundation, Friday, March 8, 2024. The team was scouting in preparation of a "production" LiDAR drone flight scheduled for the following week, designed to monitor the landslide's changes.

March 22, 2024, 7:42am Latest News

Ron Thompson drives his pickup a few times a week to this sacred place and waits with a heavy heart, a mental trove of stories and a green bag of laminated photos. In the meantime, he picks up barely noticeable trash, a garbage picker in one hand and his cane… Read story

An Amtrak train pulls into the Vancouver station on Feb. 7.

Amtrak said slides that blocked tracks earlier this year were ‘south of Kelso’ — in Felida

An Amtrak train pulls into the Vancouver station on Feb. 7.

March 22, 2024, 7:40am Business

When a series of landslides interrupted Amtrak’s service in Southwest Washington between December and February, the company described the location of the slides as “south of Kelso.” Read story

Cusick town clerk federally indicted on over 75 counts of fraud, theft

March 22, 2024, 7:36am Northwest

A former Cusick, Washington, town clerk was indicted Tuesday on more than 75 counts of fraud and theft. Read story

Teen who shot at guard during Tacoma cannabis shop burglary gets 12 years

March 21, 2024, 6:30pm Northwest

An 18-year-old man who exchanged gunfire with a security guard during the brazen burglary of a Tacoma cannabis store has been sentenced to prison. Read story

Women pay more for car insurance in Washington, though they don’t cause more crashes

March 21, 2024, 5:50pm Newsletter

Women pay more than $100 a year more than men for car insurance in Washington, though they aren’t necessarily worse drivers, according to a study conducted for Women’s History Month. Read story

A police vehicle is parked outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.   Three Idaho corrections officers were shot as a suspect staged a brazen attack to break Skylar Meade, a prison inmate out of the Boise hospital overnight. Two of the officers were shot by the suspect early Wednesday. The third was shot and wounded by a police officer when police mistook the correctional officer for the suspect.  (Sarah A.

Idaho prison gang member and accomplice sought after ambush and escape are in custody, police say

A police vehicle is parked outside Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.   Three Idaho corrections officers were shot as a suspect staged a brazen attack to break Skylar Meade, a prison inmate out of the Boise hospital overnight. Two of the officers were shot by the suspect early Wednesday. The third was shot and wounded by a police officer when police mistook the correctional officer for the suspect.  (Sarah A.

March 21, 2024, 2:25pm Latest News

A white supremacist Idaho prison gang member and an accomplice were in custody Thursday after a brazen attack to free the inmate as he was being transported from a Boise hospital, authorities said. Read story

Restoring grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades is again under consideration.

Feds want grizzly bears back in Washington’s North Cascades

Restoring grizzly bears to Washington's North Cascades is again under consideration.

March 21, 2024, 2:13pm Latest News

The National Park Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published a final series of proposals Thursday calling for reintroducing grizzly bears to the North Cascades. Read story