Out West

Recently, international attention has homed in on the problem, which is only growing worse as plastic doesn’t decompose but degrades into smaller pieces that will remain in the environment for thousands of years.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Wednesday formally ordered a mandatory recount of the results for Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District race, pursuant to the state’s automatic recount law.

As a snowstorm settled in Moscow, Idaho, the town's residents still feel unsettled after weeks without answers or arrests in a quadruple homicide investigation.

Out-of-state election deniers have traveled to Arizona to campaign for a “re-vote” of the 2022 election,

Rural areas often have larger shares of residents who are 65 or older than urban areas do. And most rural regions have relatively fewer direct care workers.

The program helps Oregonians who’ve fallen behind on mortgage payments during the pandemic.

Grocery store workers with the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union on Tuesday voiced their opposition to the proposed merger of supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons, claiming the merger will harm employees and customers.

Attorneys representing the state of Idaho have asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit from the Satanic Temple over Idaho’s abortion laws, saying the organization lacks standing to pursue the case and refuting its legal arguments.

Since Nov. 13 — the day four U of I students were found slain in an off-campus house — the Moscow Police Department has received 78 “calls for unusual circumstances” and 36 requests for welfare checks.

Last summer, the jet stream became a "jet wave," which helped form a "heat dome" over the Pacific Northwest. The effect was a catastrophic heat wave that killed as many as 1,400 people.