Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Yukon River tribes in crisis VIEW
Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska's Yukon River this year, prompting the state to shut down fishing in an effort to save...
COVID-19 ‘crisis teams’ sent to hard-hit hospitals in Oregon
With COVID-19 hospitalizations at record rates, Oregon is deploying "crisis teams" of medical professionals to help cope with the surge in cases among Oregon's unvaccinated...
Parents get coached on how to escape mask and vaccine rules
Across the U.S., religious figures, doctors, public officials and other community leaders are trying to help people come up with ways to get exempted from...
COVID-stricken Oregon deploys National Guard to hospitals
Oregon's governor says she will deploy up to 1,500 National Guard troops to hospitals around the state to support health care workers as COVID-19 surges...
Northwest heat wave: Volunteers get water to the vulnerable VIEW
Volunteers and county employees set up cots and stacked hundreds of bottles of water in an air-conditioned cooling center in a vacant building in Portland,...
Heat wave hits Northwest, sending people to cooling centers VIEW
The Pacific Northwest is bracing for another major, multiday heat wave just five weeks after temperatures soared in a record-shattering hot weather that killed many...
Homes lose water as wells run dry in drought-ravaged basin VIEW
Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in an area near the Oregon-California border where the American West's worsening drought has taken a particularly dramatic...