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A strong late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California is blamed for two deaths. Forecasters say additional flooding is possible Wednesda…

BOISE — Idaho will spend nearly $125 million on broadband internet infrastructure under Senate Bill 1129, which Gov. Brad Little signed March 20. More internet funds are on the way.

Dairy farm milk tanks are not refilling quickly. The Agriculture Department’s preliminary data shows February output at 17.68 billion pounds, down 1.6 billion from January, but 135 million pou…

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New research suggests that inbreeding may be a key reason that the Pacific Northwest’s endangered population of killer whales has failed to recover despite decades of conservation efforts. 

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A relentless winter at Lake Tahoe has now etched its way into the history books as the Sierra's second-snowiest on record. No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party w…

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KaraAnn Akers was one of 324 Oregon FFA members to earn their State Degree in 2023 — the highest award a state FFA organization can bestow. Recipients were honored Friday, March 17 during the …

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Melissa Cribbins is the new executive director of Communities for Healthy Forests, a nonprofit group whose mission is to promote good forest management in order to produce hea…

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A U.S. district judge in Texas has halted the implementation of the Biden administration’s Waters of the United States rule in Texas and Idaho. But he denied a request for a nationwide injunction.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia ha…

ENTERPRISE — A letter backing the U.S. Forest Service’s Morgan Nesbit Forest Resiliency Project was approved by the Wallowa County Board of Commissioners at its meeting Wednesday, March 15.

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This year's state FFA officer team includes President Jael Cruikshank, of Bend; Vice President Kylie Temple, of Hermiston; Secretary Ryan Mizee, of Tillamook; Treasurer Camille Peters, of Elkt…

Angie Freel, who recently arrived in Moscow from Arkansas, is the University of Idaho’s new 4-H Youth Development Program director. She has worked with 4-H for 27 years. 

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Spain has entered a period of a long-term drought, owing to high temperatures and low rainfall over the past three years, and likely faces another year of heatwaves and forest fires. The count…

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Well testing is still underway as rural residents near Boardman, Ore., try to determine the impact high concentrations of nitrates could have on them and their families.

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SALEM — A proposal to increase Oregon’s water supply with cloud seeding was well met during its first legislative hearing, though some wondered why the state is late to the party. “Over 50% of…

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California’s 11th winter storm has left the soaked state with a bang. It flooded roadways, landslides and toppled trees to the southern part of the state. It has also brought drought-busting r…

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Parts of California are under water, emergency flood declarations are in place in Nevada, and water is being released from some Arizona reservoirs to prepare for a bountiful spring runoff. Cli…

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is suspect of the safety of Brazilian beef, again calling for USDA to suspend imports from the country until the agency conducts a thorough review of its …

The federal Surface Transportation Board has approved the merger of the Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern Railroad, a move U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of…

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Ex-cattleman Cody Easterday, in prison for defrauding Tyson Fresh Meats, will prove he has a legitimate claim against the meatpacker if given the chance, his lawyers argued in a court brief fi…

The Agriculture Department raised its 2023 U.S. milk production estimate in the March 6 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, citing a larger cow inventory.

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A Russian delegation at talks with senior U.N. officials says Moscow is ready to accept an extension to a grain export deal that has helped bring down global food prices amid the war with Ukraine. 

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Forecasters are warning of more flooding, potentially damaging winds and difficult travel conditions on mountain roads as a new atmospheric river pushes into swamped California. Initial precip…

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