December 2, 2019, 1:41pm Northwest
PORTLAND — A 50-year-old Oregon man who for years made thousands of anonymous vulgar phone calls to seven women in Pennsylvania has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison. Read story
December 2, 2019, 10:16am Northwest
FORKS — Authorities say a 19-year-old man was killed in a shooting in Forksand a boy has been arrested. Read story
December 2, 2019, 10:14am Northwest
As more states legalize marijuana, the number of adult consumers has been on the rise. But there are only three major metro areas where cannabis is more popular than cigarettes and other products containing nicotine, according to new market-research data. Read story
December 2, 2019, 10:13am Northwest
SALEM, Ore. — Marion County has rejected an application for a $15.5 million hemp drying and oil-processing facility proposed for a 37-acre farm in Turner, Oregon. Read story
December 2, 2019, 7:55am Latest News
SPOKANE — The state’s commissioner of Public Lands released a proposal Monday that provides some $63 million each year to fight wildfires and take steps to prevent them in the first place. Read story
December 1, 2019, 8:33pm Northwest
HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Supreme Court has removed a big obstacle for a mining company seeking to explore a silver and copper deposit potentially worth billions of dollars under the Cabinet Mountain Wilderness in northwestern Montana. Read story
December 1, 2019, 8:14pm Northwest
YAKIMA — FirstFruits Marketing, the Yakima-based sales arm for FirstFruit Farms and Congdon Orchards, sold the first shipment of its Cosmic Crisp apples several months ago. Read story
December 1, 2019, 7:56pm Northwest
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon’s Dungeness crab season is coming up, but there’s a problem looming over this fishery. Read story
November 30, 2019, 3:35pm Northwest
LA GRANDE, Ore. — Ginkgo trees have survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, the bombing of Hiroshima and traveled around the world. The tree has become a symbol of peace between Japan and other nations through the Green Legacy Hiroshima project, with seedlings planted across the globe. The cities of La Grande and Elgin will join the movement when they plant ginkgo trees in the spring. Read story
November 30, 2019, 3:15pm Northwest
PORTLAND (AP) — Supporters of an upcoming ballot measure that will ask Oregon voters to raise the cigarette tax by $2 per pack say they have raised nearly $9 million. Read story