July 11, 2020, 3:48pm Northwest
PORTLAND (AP) — The Portland police said earlier this week that ongoing protests had cost businesses in the downtown area $23 million in property damage and lost revenue, but those figures are skewed by just one business — a mall already shut down by statewide coronavirus closures, a newspaper reported Friday. Read story
July 11, 2020, 3:09pm Northwest
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state's Supreme Court on Friday vacated a 1916 ruling that allowed a prosecutor to bring criminal charges against a tribal fisherman as racist and unjust. Read story
July 11, 2020, 3:08pm Northwest
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The forested mountains in and around North Cascades National Park in north central Washington state have long been considered prime habitat for threatened grizzly bears, so environmental groups are upset the Trump administration scrapped plans to reintroduce the apex predators there. Read story
July 11, 2020, 3:04pm Northwest
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say they have recovered the final body of eight people killed when two airplanes collided over a scenic mountain lake in Idaho on July 5. Read story
July 11, 2020, 1:23pm Northwest
BEND, Ore. — This was simply a training mission, reconnaissance for a future longer, more arduous endeavor. Read story
July 11, 2020, 6:01am Northwest
The Oregon Country Fair, a music and art festival typically held along winding paths through the woods, will take place in an interactive, 3D virtual world this weekend. Read story
July 10, 2020, 2:33pm Health
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon health officials urged people Friday to limit indoor social gatherings to fewer than 10 people during the next three weeks as coronavirus cases in the state surge and reveal a “troubling” trend of exponential growth. Read story
July 10, 2020, 12:30pm Business
Amazon has told employees to delete the popular video app TikTok from phones on which they use Amazon email, citing security risks from the China-owned app, according to reports and posts by Twitter users who said they were Amazon employees. Read story
July 10, 2020, 12:29pm Latest News
LONGVIEW -- A bicyclist is awake and alert after being critically injured when he was struck and caught under a freight train earlier this week, according a Washington state hospital spokesman. Read story
July 10, 2020, 11:08am Business
Washington state’s new business starts, as indicated in applications for federal tax IDs, have climbed back into the territory they were in before the pandemic struck — running several percentage points above their level in 2019. Read story