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Life Was Built Around Snow. What Happens When It Vanishes? The sun set over the shoulder of Mount Adams at 8:38 p.m., and the temperature around the sacred stone circle [...]

The demonstrations that swept the country after George Floyd's death lived on for much of the year in Portland, a city now engaged in finger-pointing and a debate over what [...]

Marijuana measures are on the ballot in several states that once resisted them. Oregon would go further with a proposal to decriminalize drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. Oregon has [...]

Many have fallen into disrepair, the victims of mismanagement, political strife or abandonment. Now there's an effort to restore and protect them. Maggie L. Walker, one of the first Black [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The one-day immunization clinic at David Douglas High School in Portland, Ore., was hectic on Saturday, with a wait of 45 minutes to over an hour just [...]

SEATTLE -- Measles, declared eliminated as a major public health threat in the United States almost 20 years ago, has re-emerged this winter in the Pacific Northwest and other states [...]

BLAINE, Wash. -- This town near the border of Canada is home to only 5,500 residents, but it has about 20 mailbox stores -- so many that the town recently [...]

ANCHORAGE -- Monica Bradbury stood bundled in her coat in the hall of the elementary school where she was dropping off her daughters, ages 7 and 10. It was close [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The last Republican governor of Oregon left the State Capitol more than 30 years ago. Yet Gov. Kate Brown, the latest Democrat to hold the office, suddenly [...]

DRAIN, Ore. -- All the county libraries closed in this wooded corner of Oregon when the money ran out. But believers in the power of books rejected that fate, and [...]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Monica Laakso, a bar manager married to a utility lineman, saw her monthly food bill jump by $200. The Fairbanks Senior Center had to eliminate cookie treats [...]

ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- When a company from Seattle came calling, wanting to lease some land on Jeff and Jackie Brunson's 1,000-acre hay and oat farm for a solar energy project, [...]

BOISE, Idaho -- The tech company office where Mikelle Oliver works as a recruiter opened two and a half years ago and is now so crammed she must share a [...]

ANCHORAGE -- When bad stuff happens here in the nation's wildest state, where the distances are vast and the population low, you can't always count on government officials swooping in [...]

BOISE, Idaho -- In this rugged state of jagged peaks and black volcanic soils, people struggle to make a living and get good health care. Only Mississippi has lower average [...]

SEATTLE -- For months, 65 homeless people lived in tents they set up in a parking lot behind the Seattle Pacific University bookstore, with a row of portable toilets and [...]

SEATTLE -- A knowledge of geography is essential if you are running a tiny, 100-watt radio station. Hills are bad, for example, as are tall buildings. Salt water, though, which [...]

On a summer afternoon in Southern California nine years ago, a commuter train blew through a stop signal and ran head-on into an oncoming freight train, killing 25 people. After [...]

SEATTLE -- Lilo Danielle Pozzo, who teaches chemical engineering at the University of Washington, grew up in Puerto Rico. So when Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September, it felt, [...]

For most Americans, turkeys come in plastic, from supermarkets. Their feathers are gone. Their gobble has been silenced. They are certainly not scaring the bejesus out of your dog, or [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon, the colossus of internet commerce that was founded here, is conducting the most dramatic sweepstakes of modern capitalism in throwing open a competition for a coequal second [...]

SAMMAMISH, Wash. -- It is the stuff of liberal fantasies: a vast, defiant territory, sweeping along the country's Pacific coastline, governed by Democrats and resisting President Trump at every turn. [...]

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Dr. Karen Relucio has heard reports of people digging into the ashes of their burned homes in recent days without gloves, wearing only shorts and T-shirts, [...]

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Nathalie and Michael Internicola had about 15 minutes to grab what they could as the flames roared toward their house, and it wasn't much: Some clothes, [...]

SANTA ROSA, Calif. -- Blaring car horns warned of the rushing wildfires in Northern California last week. So did exploding propane tanks and police megaphones. The smell of smoke was [...]

TROUTDALE, Ore. -- Some fires suddenly exploded in size. One in Montana doubled in 24 hours, charring 78 square miles overnight -- an area bigger than Brooklyn. Already burning fires [...]

BETHEL, Alaska -- The contractions were coming eight minutes apart, and Billie Jo Yupanik was breathing into them, her gaze down, hands cradling her abdomen. Around her, other pregnant women [...]

PALMER, Alaska -- For years, pet owners in this Anchorage suburb of big homes and lawns have fretted over snares set in the local parks by fur-trappers going after fox, [...]

To ride down the Columbia River as the John Day Dam's wall of concrete slowly fills the view from a tugboat is to see what the country's largest network of [...]

ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Inside the big wood-paneled downtown library here, a sign spells out the future in four words. Come June 1, ''All services will cease.'' For generations in America, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBURNS, Ore. -- A year ago, this corner of rural Oregon became center stage in the drawn-out drama over public lands when armed militia leaders seized a national wildlife [...]

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- Lost jobs, empty storefronts and shrinking populations. It's an image of rural America ingrained in many people's minds, and one that was often reinforced in the [...]

Southern Idaho has a distinctive stamp on its identity, laid down by the harsh climatic reality of the arid interior American West, and then by the Mormon settlers who dug [...]

CHEHALIS, Wash. -- At this small factory south of Seattle, employees make one of the most specialized products in the aerospace industry: the rubber mats that Boeing workers stand on [...]

ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- Sometimes a book just gets loved to death. A Bible, or a copy of ''Charlotte's Web,'' for that matter, can be opened only so many times, even [...]

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Never climb into an airplane cockpit in winter without your best military-grade arctic boots, rated to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Green, cocky pilots fresh from the lower [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The West Coast has long prided itself as an engine for reinvention and progressive ideals, distinct from the rest of the country. But after Tuesday's election, the [...]

LA CONNER, Wash. -- Going to the dentist evokes a special anxiety for Verne McLeod. He grew up on the Swinomish Indian reservation here in northwest Washington State in the [...]

SEATTLE -- The coal industry, shaken by dropping global demand and tighter air quality regulations, took another major hit on Monday when the United States Army Corps of Engineers said [...]

SEATTLE -- Amazon's new urban headquarters -- more than 30 office buildings and three towers that, once completed, will dominate a low-slung section of the city -- are a gleaming [...]

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. -- Here in the San Juan Islands of northwest Washington State, where a severe shortage of affordable housing threatens the economy and the community, a small nonprofit [...]

SEATTLE -- Inside the factory buildings at Cascade Designs, just south of downtown Seattle, camping and hiking gear for the rugged outdoor life of the Pacific Northwest has been manufactured [...]

BURNS, Ore. -- One of the largest wood mills in the West once belched its steam on the edge of town, sawing ponderosa pine. Out in the woods, tree fallers [...]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- When Lewis and Clark first encountered the Columbia River in 1805, they wrote about nearby streams so thick with salmon that you could all but walk across [...]

ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND, Alaska -- America's Far North cherishes its image of wild purity in a landscape so vast it can sometimes seem barely touched by people. But the roughly [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDYAKIMA, Wash. -- American wine, for all the hype and hyperbole in recent years about Idaho rieslings or Pennsylvania pinot noirs, is still overwhelmingly a California thing. Even in [...]

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Environmental passions, which run hot in the Northwest over everything from salmon to recycling, generally get couched in the negative: Don't fish too much, don't put those [...]

JUNEAU, Alaska -- Michael George Patterson, a 59-year-old Native Alaskan, stood before a group of high school students on a recent morning and told them about his impending death. Sooner [...]

Byline: KIRK JOHNSON FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- A gleaming $23 million complex of office buildings, dormitories and workshops has risen from the boreal forest just outside town over the past decade, [...]