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Lewiston-based insurance company pulled Asotin MedAdvantage plans, citing growing financial pressure

By Rachel Sun April 15, 2025

In Asotin County, Washington, just over a quarter of the population is 65 or older. This year, a locally based insurance provider pulled its Medicare Advantage plans in the county. Read More

Whitman County reports two cases of pertussis

By Rachel Sun September 27, 2024

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is circulating across Washington, with two cases reported in the student population at Washington State University on Tuesday.Read More

Public health conducting needs survey for north central Idaho

By Rachel Sun March 7, 2024

Residents in north central Idaho have the chance to influence what health and social service programs are available in their community through the end of March.Read More

Thousands of Northwest jobs could come from new Forest Service plan

By Lauren Paterson December 5, 2023

A sunrise over blue mountains. The mountains are dotted with evergreen trees.

A sunrise over the Rocky Mountains from Rocky Ridge Campground in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests on August 8, 2020 (Credit: Lauren Paterson / NWPB) Listen (Runtime :59) Read A […]Read More

31 Patriot Front Members Were Arrested Near An Idaho Pride Event

By NPR News June 12, 2022

Authorities arrested 31 members of the white supremacist group Patriot Front near an Idaho Pride event Saturday after they were found packed into the back of a U-Haul truck with […]Read More

In Rural North Idaho, With Help Far Away, Communities Take It Upon Themselves To Tackle Suicide

By NWPB News October 16, 2020

Hank Thornton makes the rounds in Benewah County, Idaho, where he checks on veterans to see if they need services like food assistance and medical treatment. He also looks for signs of suicide risk and offers resources and an ear when needed. Rural Mountain West communities have high suicide rates and help is often far away, so community members like Thornton have taken it upon themselves to reach out to their neighbors. CREDIT: Heath Druzin / Guns & America

Tens of thousands of Americans die every year from gun suicide, and some of hardest-hit areas spend the least on prevention. In the Idaho Panhandle, some small-town residents are stepping in where the government has failed.Read More

Census Canvassers Fan Out In The Inland Northwest Ahead Of September Deadline

By Doug Nadvornick August 11, 2020

About 3,000 census "enumerators" began knocking on doors recently in eastern Washington. CREDIT: U.S. Census Bureau

Canvassers have been out in North Idaho the past few weeks. They will be working between now and the end of September to follow up with people who haven’t filled out census forms.Read More

Up To Eight Thought Dead, Three Bodies Recovered, In Lake Coeur d’Alene Plane Collision

By Doug Nadvornick July 6, 2020

Boaters flag down authorities to a crashed seaplane near Powderhorn Bay on Lake Coeur d'Alene on Sunday, July 5, 2020. One downed plane can be seen in the right side of the image. CREDIT: Stephanie Hammett/The Spokesman-Review via AP

Lieutenant Ryan Higgins from the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office told reporters today that three bodies out of eight are now recovered. He says crews have discovered the locations of two others on the bottom of the lake. Three others are believed to be down there too.Read More

Interior Dept. Grant To Help States With Wildlife Migration. One Area In North Idaho Is A Chokepoint

By NWPB News February 14, 2020

A mule deer uses a wildlife crossing below Highway 97 in Oregon, the same major north-south route in north-central Washington's Okanogan County looking at similar measures. CREDIT: ODOT

A new federal grant aims to improve wildlife habitat and migration corridors in the Northwest. About $100,000 is going to a project related to a wildlife underpass that will be built under U.S. Highway 95 in North Idaho.Read More

FCC Proposes $13M Fine For Idaho White Supremacist Over Racist Robocalls

By NWPB News January 31, 2020

File photo. A 2018 poster for then-missing University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business in Brooklyn, Iowa. Regulators are proposing a nearly $13 million fine against Scott Rhodes, who they say illegally hid the origin of automated phone calls that used the slaying of Tibbetts, and election campaigns in other states to promote white nationalist and anti-Semitic messages. CREDIT: Charlie Neibergall / AP

The Federal Communications Commission said in a news release Thursday that Scott Rhodes violated the Truth in Caller ID Act that bars the manipulation of caller ID information so calls appear to come from local numbers — a technique called “neighbor spoofing.Read More