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A man was hit and killed by a freight train in east Multnomah County on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
The crash happened at around 3 a.m. near Northeast Enquist Place and Tumalt Road, …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/14/26
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The proposed merger of two of Oregon’s oldest universities cleared a key hurdle this month, paving the way for Willamette University in Salem and Pacific University in Forest Grove to begin …
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Julia Silverman / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/14/26
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The Stevens County Coroner's Office identified a man killed by local deputies last week after they claimed he was shooting at children.
Blaine Branham, 82, died of gunshot wounds Wednesday. The …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/14/26
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A man and a woman were shot and wounded Saturday night in Wenatchee in what police say is a domestic-related dispute. Both sustained significant injuries.
The Wenatchee Police Department was …
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Jenni Rodas / The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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7/14/26
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A fuel spill on Harbor Island allowed as much as 5,000 gallons of diesel into a containment area in Elliott Bay, according to the state Department of Ecology.
A social media post Monday night by …
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/14/26
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As the investor in some of the most successful startups in history, Silicon Valley’s Vinod Khosla has proved remarkably prescient in picking winners, including AI wunderkind OpenAI, maker of …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/14/26
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Dr. Ryan Cole, an Idaho pathologist who has been a vocal critic of COVID vaccines, is staying on the board that advises the state’s largest public health district.
Cole’s re-appointment — …
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Kyle Pfannenstiel / Idaho Capital Sun
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7/14/26
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Oregon health officials have recorded a handful of verified cases of a parasitic intestinal illness in the state over the past two months, as outbreaks involving the disease continue to grow in other …
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Shaanth Nanguneri / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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7/14/26
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Twelve Democratic-led states on Monday sued to block Paramount’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District for the Northern District of …
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Mia Maldonado / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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7/14/26
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Last year, Oregon became the first state to start charging companies for some of the end-life waste disposal costs created by their packaging. Then, the state quickly became the first to be sued over …
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Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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7/14/26
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Washington state wants grocery chain Albertsons to pay for its alleged role in fueling an opioid epidemic that has killed thousands here.
State Attorney General Nick Brown argues Albertsons …
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Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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7/14/26
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The director of Washington’s Department of Enterprise Services went on leave last week, but no one in the agency or the governor’s office is saying why or for how long.
Matt Jones was …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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7/14/26
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High school seniors in Washington would need to complete student aid paperwork to graduate, under a proposal Gov. Bob Ferguson announced Monday.
If students didn’t want to fill out the Free …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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7/14/26
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Officials at the U.S. Forest Service are proposing new management plans for eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains that include potentially tripling the amount of logging across 5.5 million acres in the …
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By Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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7/13/26
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The voter initiative seeking to end Idaho’s strict abortion ban has officially qualified to appear on ballots in November, Idahoans United for Women and Families, the group leading the effort, …
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By Laura Guido and Clark Corbin / Idaho Capital Sun
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7/13/26
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President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Monday to again shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah — this time more dramatically, by about 3 …
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By Katie McKellar / Utah Daily Dispatch
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7/13/26
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Washington state wants grocery chain Albertsons to pay for its alleged role in fueling an opioid epidemic that has killed thousands here.
State Attorney General Nick Brown argues Albertsons …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/13/26
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The city of Federal Way in south King County, Washington has no shortage of massage parlors, and local authorities are making it harder for those that may be breaking the law.
In some parts of …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/13/26
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, on Monday celebrated the final passage of a package of housing legislation including the Build Now Act, a policy targeting the byzantine zoning and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/13/26
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The Bellingham man accused of shooting two National Guard members, one fatally, in Washington, D.C., in November has been hospitalized after refusing to eat while in custody.
Rahmanullah …
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By Hannah Edelman / The Bellingham Herald
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7/13/26
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