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Toledo Zoo receives 3 orphaned cougar cubs from Washington
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - The Toledo Zoo is caring for three orphaned cougar cubs sent to Ohio from Washington state.
Zoo officials said Thursday that one of the cubs is 10-12 weeks old. The other two are around 3 weeks old and came from a litter of four...
Feds remove protections for 10M acres of sage grouse habitat
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Interior Department says it is withdrawing protections for 10 million acres of federal lands used by the threatened sage grouse to open it up for energy development.
The plan would allow mining and other development in areas where it now is prohibited in six Western states: Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming...
Effort to repeal new Oregon gun law fails
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - An effort to repeal a new Oregon law that enables a court to deny a gun to a person deemed at risk of suicide or hurting others has failed, its organizers said, because they didn't get enough signatures to place it on the ballot...
VIDEO: Crews start injecting grout into collapsed Hanford tunnel
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation have started injecting grout into a partially collapsed tunnel that contains radioactive wastes left over from the production of nuclear weapons.
The grout is intended to improve the stability of the 360-foot-long tunnel, which dates to 1956, and help prevent any radioactivity from escaping into the environment...
Man wounded by Pasco police pleads not guilty to shooting
PASCO, Wash. (AP) - A Pasco man who was shot and wounded by police last month pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the exchange of gunfire.
The Tri-City Herald reports that 31-year-old Edwin Espejo was in a wheelchair at the Tuesday court appearance, and he entered not guilty pleas to charges of assault, unlawful gun possession and three counts of attempted first-degree murder...
Confederate monuments near Vancouver to lose historic status
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) - County officials in Vancouver, Washington, have voted to remove highway markers honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the Clark County Heritage Register.
The Columbian reports the Clark County Historic Preservation Commission voted on the delisting Tuesday night...
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics ran through Hanford site
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - The road to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics ran through the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The prize on Tuesday was awarded to three physicists key to the development of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory at Hanford and its twin in Louisiana...
Hermiston High grads will get diplomas in Washington
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - Hermiston High School's Class of 2018 won't be tossing their caps in Hermiston. They won't even be tossing them in Oregon.
The East Oregonian reports the June graduation is scheduled for the Toyota Center in Kennewick, Washington...
Washington, other states, now in REAL ID “grace period”
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The more than two dozen states and U.S. territories that currently have a temporary extension from the enforcement of federal requirements for state driver's licenses and ID cards are now under a grace period through Jan...
Lack of Washington capital budget leads to some layoffs
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The ongoing lack of a state capital budget has led to layoffs in the state parks department, and more layoffs at additional state agencies are expected.
Ten people were laid off at the parks department Saturday, and more state employees are expected to lose their jobs soon, although state officials did not have an exact number Monday, the News Tribune reported Tuesday...
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