Pacific NW

More than 100 people Sunday protested in Spokane against President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb nuclear sites in Iran.

As you can see from the photograph featured in today’s column, snakes can swim. The picture, taken by a marine deputy with the Boise County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month, shows a large gopher snake moving through a creek as easily as an eel.

MARLIN/KRUPP, Wash. – In this community near the middle of the state, 10% of the population is on the town council.

Ray Kresek has been struck by lightning three times. He’s watched colleagues die in fires. He saw a plane knock down a fire with dish soap. And he was among responders who pulled the bodies of 44 Air Force members from a plane crash.

From 1975: Nine months after the close of Expo ’74, federal officials formally transferred the iconic U.S. Pavilion to the city of Spokane in a brief ceremony.

On an idyllic green block of downtown Boise, archaeology students were hard at work. The students from the University of Idaho, Boise State University and College of Western Idaho wielded their tools alongside volunteers in front of the State Historic Preservation Office building, carefully unearthing two rectangular hot tub-sized patches of dirt in the well-manicured lawn to uncover artifacts ...

Before Bella Memeo learned how to drive, she learned how to fly.

From 1975: Senators Warren Magnuson of Washington and Frank Church of Idaho spoke on the third and final day of the dedication of the “Northwest Passage” – that is, the Snake River dams and seaway.

Detained immigrant parents worried who will pick their children up from school. Mothers who’ve been deported with infants while their older kids are left behind in the U.S.

FEDERAL WAY – More than 150 years after John Conna broke free of slavery in Texas and made his way to the Pacific Northwest, some of his descendants gathered Wednesday to see his remarkable story placed back on the map.

From 1975: Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus spoke during the three-day dedication of the “Northwest Passage” – the lower Snake River dams and seaway project – but his speech was not entirely full of praise.