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Regional News
What's happening in the region? Here's a roundup of news from Spokane, Montana and other regional areas.
Wildfire smoke chokes parts of Canada and western US, with some areas under air quality alerts
In Canada, there are about 430 active wildfires in British Columbia and 177 in neighboring Alberta, including two …
Surprise Yellowstone geyser eruption highlights little known hazard at popular park
Tuesday's explosion came with little warning.
Wildfires plague the West amid a scorching heat wave and high winds
Riverside hit 102 degrees (38.9 Celsius) on Sunday amid a heat wave that has been largely focused on the interior of California and is expected to last through…
Man kills grizzly in Montana after it attacks while he is picking berries
The attack happened in Flathead National Forest about 2 miles north of Columbia Falls, a northwestern Montana city of about 5,500 people, according to the state wildlife agency.
Montana seeks to revive signature restrictions for ballot petitions, including on abortion rights
The judge gave county election offices until July 24 to tally signatures of inactive voters that had been rejected. All the initiatives are expected to qualify…
Money from Washington's landmark climate law will help tribes face rising seas, climate change
The tribe has spent at least a decade on the relocation effort, but so far a patchwork of federal and state grants has fallen far short of the expected cost.
3 hikers die in Utah parks as triple-digit temperatures linger in western US
Later Saturday, first responders in southwest Utah responded to a call about two hikers “suffering from a heat related incident” at Snow Canyon State Park, whi…
5 people escape hot, acidic pond after SUV drove into inactive geyser in Yellowstone National Park
The Semi-Centennial Geyser has been inactive since a major eruption in 1922. It is located near Roaring Mountain between Mammoth Hot Springs and Norris Junctio…
For at least a decade Quinault Nation has tried to escape the rising Pacific. Time is running out
Taholah is expected to see a sea level rise of 1 to 2.6 feet by the year 2100, according to a 2018 Washington Coastal Resilience Project report.
California fast food workers now earn $20 per hour. Franchisees are responding by cutting hours.
It wasn’t only entry-level workers that got a pay raise. Shift leaders, assistant managers, and everyone else up the ladder had to get raises too, and labor re…
Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths
Park Superintendent Mike Reynolds cautioned visitors in a statement that “high heat like this can pose real threats to your health."
Ranger injured and armed person making threats dies at Yellowstone, park says
The ranger was in stable condition at a hospital, according to the statement, which did not specify how the ranger was injured.
To save spotted owls, U.S. officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species
Past efforts to save spotted owls focused on protecting the forests where they live, sparking bitter fights over logging but also helping slow the birds' decli…
Fed Chair Jerome Powell: US inflation is cooling again, though it isn't yet time to cut rates
owell said Fed officials still want to see annual price growth slow further toward their 2% target before they would feel confident of having fully defeated hi…
Street medicine teams search for homeless people to deliver lifesaving IV hydration in extreme heat
Homeless people accounted for nearly half of the record 645 heat-related deaths last year in Maricopa County, which encompasses metro Phoenix.