PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Gillian Flaccus - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Mon July 03, 2017

Oregon OKs Permit for First All-Wood High-Rise in U.S.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Officials in Oregon have approved construction permits for the first all-wood high-rise building in the nation. Construction on the 12-story building, called Framework, will break ground this fall in Portland's trendy and rapidly growing Pearl District and is expected to be completed by the following winter....

Brad Broberg - Mon July 03, 2017

Project Will Complete Missing North/South Link to Sea-Tac

In the days before mechanized equipment, sheep didn't just provide wool and Easter dinner. “They used sheep to compact roads,” said Ed Hansen, general superintendent of Ceccanti Inc. in Tacoma, Wash....

Rebecca Boone - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Tue June 06, 2017

Cleanup at Idaho Nuclear Landfill on Hold After Collapse

BOISE, Idaho (AP) Some cleanup efforts at a nuclear waste landfill in eastern Idaho are on hold while workers try to figure out what caused a collapse in a dig area that sent an excavator into a pit. The excavator was digging up transuranic waste — which is waste contaminated with highly radioactive elements....

Tue June 06, 2017

Honnen Promotes Murphy, Krausch

Honnen Equipment Co. announced the promotion of Matt Murphy to director of John Deere sales. He will be responsible for contributing to the overall sales strategy of Honnen Equipment throughout our ten branches in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and southern Idaho....

Tue June 06, 2017

Oregon School Wins Forestry Award

SUTHERLIN (AP) On behalf of the Oregon Natural Resources Education Fund (ONREF), the Society of American Foresters presented an award certificate at a May 15 Sutherlin school board meeting to Sutherlin High School and instructor Wes Crawford to show support for the school's commitment to providing educational opportunities in forestry....

Jennifer Rupp - Tue June 06, 2017

Reconstruction Along I-90 in the Heart of Idaho's Silver Valley

The small town of Mullan in Shoshone County, Idaho, marks the start of a 4.5-mi. reconstruction project along I-90 extending east to the Idaho/Montana state line. By the 1980s, this area known as the Silver Valley, had produced more than a billion ounces of silver, 3 million tons of zinc, and 8 million tons of lead, totalling more than $6 billion in value, ranking the valley among the top 10 mining districts in world history, according to the Spokane Daily Chronicle....

Lori Tobias - Tue June 06, 2017

Tillamook Estuaries' $12M Project Restores Oregon Wetlands

For decades, folks in Tillamook, Ore., looked for ways to diminish the flooding that so frequently troubles this agricultural community, damaging property, threatening lives and generally shutting down town....