Pacific NW

A Tacoma man has been charged in the drive-by shooting of a rival gang member last week in Lakewood. Prosecutors charged Kendrick Bernard Smith, 20, on Feb. 6 with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault for the Feb. 5 drive-by shooting, court records show. A bench warrant was issued for Smith’s arrest, court records show. He was arrested Tuesday morning and booked into Pierce ...

Rats are already a problem in Idaho’s Treasure Valley. Soon, they could be considered an official “nuisance.” The change sounds semantic, but a bill moving through the state Senate to shift the classification of rats could have a big impact on how Idaho deals with — and ideally eradicates — the newfound pest. The Senate Agricultural Affairs Committee on Tuesday agreed to print a bipartisan ...

Fifteen Democratic-led states have dropped a six-year-old lawsuit challenging the legality of a federal plan that allowed oil and gas drilling in the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.

An Oregon congressional representative said she will do everything she can to get an Albany woman detained by federal immigration authorities home to her family.

The Canada Border Services Agency on Tuesday announced the arrest of a man accused of attempting to smuggle almost 700 pounds of methamphetamine over the border into Canada near Sumas. According to the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Satnam Singh was returning to Canada from the U.S. in a commercial vehicle at the Abbotsford-Huntingdon port of entry on Nov. 22. CBSA said its Detector Dog ...