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The state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a statement the closure is meant to reduce entanglement risk to the whales as they forage off the Golden State’s coast.

A dispute over five acres around Portland General Electric's plant along the Willamette River has raised questions about tribal fishing rights.

Pope Francis, the groundbreaking Roman Catholic Church leader praised around the world as a humble and charismatic liberal leader, died on Easter Monday at age 88.

The state contends that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't actually give the president the power to unilaterally impose tariffs.

If approved, the proposal by the Trump administration would rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act and clear the way for habitat destruction.

More than 12,500 people packed the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa Monday night as Senator Bernie Sanders and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on the crowd to unite.

Scientists discovered the first ankylosaurid footprints in Canada, proving club-tailed dinosaurs lived in North America during a previously documented fossil gap.

While multiple kinds of whales frequent the Pacific coast, the spring season’s focus is migratory gray whales travelling north from their winter breeding grounds in Baja California.

The state’s Fish and Wildlife Department says it will reevaluate the move later this month, depending on the risk fishing lines pose to the whales.

One of the country’s largest forest management plans is facing controversial changes that strongly recommend logging in response to increased wildfires.