Northwest News

Pages

Fish Screens
4:30 pm
Thu May 23, 2013

Fish Screens Help Farmers, Save Fish

Credit Courtney Flatt
Washington and Oregon require fish screens when water is being pumped out of streams, rivers, and lakes.

If proper equipment isn’t installed on irrigation pipes and pumps, fish can get sucked into farmers’ fields and drainage ditches. That clogs pipes and kills fish. A new fish screen was just installed on a Central Washington River to prevent this from happening. It’s the first of its kind in the state.

Read more
Deeper Cuts in Oregon
7:38 am
Thu May 23, 2013

Southern Oregon Counties Prepare for Deeper Cuts After Safety Levies Fail

Voters in two Southwest Oregon counties have defeated short-term property tax increases that would have raised revenue for public safety. Amelia Templeton reports.

Read more
Ricin Arrest
7:05 am
Thu May 23, 2013

Spokane Man Arrested, Pleads Not Guilty To Mailing Ricin

Credit Matthew Ryan Buquet
Facebook profile for Matthew Ryan Buquet on May 22, 2013

Wednesday FBI officials in Spokane arrested a man for connection with mailing a poisonous letter to a government building. Spokane Public Radio’s Paige Browning reports.


Read more
Fairchild well positioned
6:28 am
Thu May 23, 2013

Fairchild Officials Say Base Is Well Positioned Despite Losing Out On Tankers

Credit Jessica Robinson
Brian Newberry talks to reporters in front of a KC-135, one of the new KC-46A refueling tankers are designed to replace.

Officials at Fairchild Air Force Base say their role in the military's Asia-Pacific operations will not change anytime soon. That's despite the Pentagon Wednesday opting not to locate the next generation of Air Force refueling tankers at the base outside of Spokane, Wash. Jessica Robinson reports.


Read more
Petition for Coal Study
5:54 am
Thu May 23, 2013

Anti-coal Export Groups File Legal Petition For Coal Study

The number of coal export terminals proposed for Oregon and Washington has dropped from six to three. But a dozen Northwest groups aren’t backing down from their call for a regional impact study of the coal projects.

The groups filed a legal petition Wednesday with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. They want the corps to study the environmental impacts of transporting coal by train and barge from mines in Montana and Wyoming to shipping terminals.


Read more

Pages