It was 248 years ago, in 1776, that 13 British colonies in North America declared their independence. In recent years many of ...

Washington’s handful of Walla Walla sweet onion farmers are right in the thick of harvest. “I would say we have an average to ...

Oregon State University Malheur Experiment Station crop-research field day is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 9 at ...

Potato acreage is down by about 9% in Washington and unchanged from year-earlier totals in Idaho, Oregon and California, ...

The Idaho Food Bank Fund will accept grant applications July 1-31. The fund issues grants to qualifying Idaho nonprofit ...

Oregon’s legislative session ended with lawmakers not taking action on bills that would impose new environmental review ...

A proposal to sell some public lands as part of the U.S. Senate’s version of a budget reconciliation bill was downscaled and subsequently scrapped altogether. Mike Lee, R-Utah, Senate Energy […] ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that district courts can’t issue universal injunctions, ending an increasingly common way for ...

Pedro Picazo has liked to take stuff apart to see how it worked and put it back together ever since he was little. “I’ve ...

The USDA proposes to turn loose tiny mites from Eurasia to gnaw on that symbol and scourge of the West — Russian thistle, also known as tumbleweeds, which also originated […] ...

Idaho regulators claim they lack jurisdiction over cattle owned by an Idaho ranch that were allegedly contaminated by a spill from a phosphate slurry pipeline. Meanwhile, the J.R. Simplot Co., […] ...