Authorities say a small private business jet crashed in mountainous terrain in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation of central Oregon, killing the pilot and a single passenger on board.
Wildlife officials have announced plans to cull between 500 and 700 Yellowstone bison from the population, and no longer enroll the animals to a brucellosis quarantine program.
An Idaho business owner has announced plans to transform a former drive-in movie theatre in Idaho Falls into a recreational vehicle resort catering to short-term rentals.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has scheduled a news conference for Sunday morning as COVID-19 case numbers soar throughout the Pacific Northwest where he will reportedly detail new restrictions.
Elko Police Department is looking for information about a person of interest related to a homicide that took place on Nov. 1 at a McDonald’s on Idaho Street.
The home of elected Utah Gov. Spencer Cox became the site of a demonstration over the weekend where several residents gathered to protest against how the coronavirus has been handled in the past few weeks.
A riot was declared in Portland, Oregon, as protesters demanded that every vote in Tuesday’s election be counted. Hundreds were protesting President Donald Trump’s court challenges to stop the vote count in battleground states.
U.S. officials plan to drill a well at a federal nuclear site in eastern Idaho early next year to remove hazardous waste from a Lake Erie-sized aquifer that supplies water to cities and farms in the region.
Tribal officials in Idaho said Tuesday that a 60-year-old woman was airlifted to a hospital after being attacked by a pack of loose dogs on reservation land over the weekend.
Yellowstone National Park officials said in a 2018 briefing paper that they were ordered by then -Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to manage the park’s bison “more actively like cattle on a ranch.”
As wildfires raged through Oregon, staff at fish hatcheries around the state raced to try to save – or prematurely release – millions of chinook salmon, steelhead and trout being raised in captivity.
A 1-year-old boy has died after his family was apparently overrun by flames while trying to flee a giant wildfire burning in northeastern Washington state.
Fourteen firefighters in California had to use emergency fire shelters to survive a destructive blaze, raising questions about how well the shelters work.
A pair of weekend climbing accidents in Montana led to one death, two injuries and a series of daring helicopter rescues carried out by a pilot hours before the funeral of his son,
Gov. Jay Inslee has directed the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to draft new rules governing the killing of wolves involved in conflicts with livestock, a move winning praise from conservation groups.