6 hrs ago- A new Pacific Northwest medical school celebrated its opening Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College of Osteopathic Medicine, which plans to send primary care doctors to serve in rural and low-income areas in a five-state region.
1 day ago- The National Park Service's advisory board on Tuesday recommended designating the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a national historic landmark.
1 day ago- The National Park Service's advisory board has recommended designating the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a National Historic Landmark.
5 days ago- Washington state Fish and Wildlife biologists and wolf experts from Idaho captured what they believe are two wolves Friday in western Okanogan County, a development that could confirm the first wolf pack in Washington since the animals were eradicated decades ago.
5 days ago- Biologists say they have captured two wolves in western Okanogan County and fitted both with radio collars to track their movements and learn more about them.
12 days ago- A 25-year-old Toppenish man, accused of fatally shooting another man in an apparent dispute over a woman they both had dated, has been charged with second-degree murder.
13 days ago- Federal regulators will require new measures to protect agricultural workers from five pesticides, including two widely used in the Northwest potato industry, but are allowing continued use of another that is widely banned under international treaty.