Details of the second round-trip flight between Walla Walla Regional Airport and Seattle-Tacoma International Airport were announced Tuesday, May 23, by Port of Walla Walla officials.
Idaho electricity customers can give testimony about the long-proposed Boardman to Hemingway transmission line during hearings that the state Public Utilities Commission plans in mid-June.
NAMPA, Idaho — A 2-year-old boy remains missing from Nampa, Idaho.
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Walla Walla Regional Airport is getting a second daily flight to Seattle under an agreement approved by Port of Walla Walla commissioners at a special meeting.
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Port of Walla Walla commissioners are exploring the possibility of adding a second round-trip flight to Seattle, but their primary concern is the added cost.
SEATTLE — A passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people ran aground near Bainbridge Island west of Seattle on Saturday, April 15, but there were no reports of injuries or contamination, author…
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — The Pacific Northwest will need to significantly augment existing power supplies in coming years to avoid rolling blackouts and other emergency measures, according to repor…
Storms have bolstered mountain snowpacks from Colorado to the Sierra Nevada, turning the page on the deep drought that gripped the West for three years. The question now is how farmers and ran…
PORTLAND — Bobbie Hill wanted to offer encouragement to people struggling with something she understood intimately. But she couldn’t find greeting cards geared specifically toward people battl…
WALLA WALLA — The power of horses is nothing short of magic — at least, that’s what instructors at Blue Mountain Therapeutic Riding think.
Drought will worsen or develop in Oregon, Idaho and Washington over the next three months, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's spring outlook.
PORTLAND — Attacks on power stations have dramatically increased across the U.S. in recent years, with more than 100 such incidents reported in 2022.
The National Weather Service on Thursday declared an end to a La Nina that lacked the punch to relieve drought in Oregon or build a spring-proof snowpack in Washington. The Pacific Ocean along…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — Professional salaried employees at Walla Walla Community College want a stronger voice at work.
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has joined a Texas lawsuit against the Biden administration’s waterway protections, claiming the rules are too vague and violate state sovereignty rights.
SEATTLE — Phillip Meintzer was hours away by car from the largest fires raging in the forests of British Columbia and Alberta in summer of 2021, but the air was still thick with smoke from the…
For the past 20 years, atmospheric scientists at Idaho Power have been seeding clouds to augment the state’s precious water supplies by wringing more snow from the sky. Now the state has joine…
PENDLETON — When Sydelle Harrison was just 2 years old, her mother made her a handcrafted jacket from Pendleton blankets. The next year, Harrison’s mother passed away. That jacket was one of t…
SALEM — Shortly after this year’s midterm elections, an anti-government group in Oregon called “Timber Unity” posted a call to action on Facebook. It asked its followers to “bombard” Portland …
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A five-truck convoy from Walla Walla Foundry, its largest bronze sculpture ever completed now in tow, is headed across the country to Boston for the assembly and installat…
PORTLAND — Fir trees in Oregon and Washington died in record-breaking numbers in 2022, according to as-yet-unpublished research conducted by the U.S. Forest Service.
HOOD RIVER — At the beginning of this year, Columbia Insight reported on a move by Trump administration officials to terminate a long-running government study looking at the feasibility of rei…
HOOD RIVER — In August of this year, The New York Times ran a feature story titled “The Coming California Megastorm.”
Drought conditions in Washington, Idaho and Oregon should improve this winter, but worsen in much of the West, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts. NOAA primarily base…
HOOD RIVER — Kenneth Hahn was an icon of progressive Los Angeles. Hahn, who died in 1997, was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 40 years, 1952 to 1992, and before tha…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday, Oct. 17, officially kicked off the application process for his student debt cancellation program and announced that 8 million borrowers had alr…
Federal forecasters are nearly certain that a La Nina will prevail in early winter and think it will likely will stick around until early spring, raising prospects for ample snow in the Cascade Range.
WALLA WALLA — The Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center, Walla Walla, is hosting a virtual town hall for all women veterans at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has signed off on giving federal wildland firefighters a hefty raise for the next two fiscal years, a move that affects more than 16,000 firefighters and comes…
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — The Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center’s Chaplain Service is hosting a virtual community clergy training program on Wednesday, June 23, from 8-10 a.m. for c…
WALLA WALLA — A virtual Memorial Day service from the Jonathan M. Wainwright Memorial VA Medical Center is scheduled for noon on Thursday, May 26.
A Baker City woman and her daughter who filed a federal lawsuit against the Baker School District two years ago, claiming that district officials retaliated against the daughter after she comp…
South Baker Intermediate fifth-graders Carson Johnson, left, Sadie Christensen and Juniper Joseph create different growing environments for grass seed during an activity at a "Field to Fork" e…
Jordan Wolfe, a fifth-grader at South Baker Intermediate, shows his edible soil sample during "Field to Fork" on Wednesday, May 4. The "soil" layers were made of Oreo cookies, pudding, sprinkl…
Eugene Hawes, a presenter at this year's "Field to Fork" event at the Baker County Fairgrounds, talks about how technology and modern equipment help farmers to grow and harvest food.
Ron Morgan, a district vice president for the Oregon State Firefighters Council, leaves a leaflet on the front door of a Baker City home on Tuesday morning, May 3, 2022.
Firefighters from Baker City and from several other cities across Oregon distributed leaflets on Tuesday morning, May 3, 2022.
Casey Johnson, a Baker City firefighter/paramedic, knocks on the door of the Baker City home Tuesday morning, May 3, 2022. Johnson, who was joined by Ron Morgan, a district vice president for …
Baker City firefighter/paramedic Casey Johnson, left, president of the local union chapter that represents Baker City firefighters, and Ron Morgan, a district vice president for the Oregon Sta…
Former Walla Walla businessman Mark Gilbert, who operated car dealerships in the Walla Walla Valley and was embroiled in several local lawsuits, will be sentenced for fraud July 28 in federal court.
Terri Steenbergen is the executive director of The Harbor, an advocacy center in Astoria for survivors of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking.
Supporters of The Harbor lined up to form a teal ribbon in April to raise awareness about domestic violence.
Katrina Fast, a former Baker High School volleyball player, has signed a letter of intent to play for Warner Pacific University in Portland in the fall of 2022.
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden says it’s time for Congress to lift federal cannabis restrictions dating back more than 80 years to the Great Depression.
SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington’s wolf population grew in 2021 for the 13th consecutive year, showing a 16% increase from the previous year, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said Saturday…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is ordering the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve for six months, the White House said Thursday, March …
The reigning La Nina has more staying power than expected and likely will stay through the spring and into the summer, influencing U.S. temperatures and precipitation for the upcoming months, …
SANDPOINT, Idaho — Linda Navarre moved to Sandpoint, Idaho, from Cleveland in 1978, when the town consisted of people in the timber industry and hippies “and they all got along.”
ENTERPRISE — The centuries-old practice of using dog sleds for transport in snow-covered terrain has met the 21st century at Race Central for the Eagle Cap Extreme Sled Dog Race at Cloverleaf …
Small booklets of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were handed out to students following a presentation by Crook County District Attorney Wade Whiting and Circuit Judg…
Crook County District Attorney Wade Whiting and Circuit Judge Daina Vitolins answer questions from students about the U.S. Constitution and criminal justice system during an assembly at Steins…
Students raise their hands to ask questions about the U.S. Constitution and criminal justice system during an assembly at Steins Pillar Elementary School in Prineville on Friday.
Crook County District Attorney Wade Whiting discusses how he works with law enforcement while talking about the U.S. Constitution and criminal justice system with students at Steins Pillar Ele…
Crook County District Attorney Wade Whiting shows his badge while talking about the U.S. Constitution and criminal justice system with students at Steins Pillar Elementary School in Prineville…
