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07/19/11 Janette Griffiths takes in vast plains and mighty forests on her journey to the Pacific Northwest.
07/18/11 The West Coast League, a Pacific Northwest wood-bat summer league for college players, has seen significant growth since its founding in 2005. Many of its former athletes now play professionally and it is drawing a fan following.
07/18/11 SAN RAFAEL -- The purchase of a mostly full 127,000-square-foot San Rafael office building was part of a a Los Angeles-based real estate investment trust's plan to grow quickly in key Northern California and Pacific Northwest job markets.
07/18/11 SEATTLE, WAIn response to customer feedbackPyramid Hefeweizen will return to its roots and original nameofficially dropping the name Haywire from its packaging.Moving away from the tradition that made us great was a mistake, said Ryan Daley, brand manager for Pyramid. Our consumers connected with our Pacific Northwest heritage and craft beer brewing tradition. When we changed...
07/18/11 One of the largest crowds in Pacific Northwest soccer history will be treated to a special evening on Wednesday as Seattle Sounders FC face legendary world power and reigning English Premier League champion Manchester United.
07/17/11 Aaren Ziegler of Canby, Ore. captured the 110th Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur Championship at Port Ludlow Golf Club in Port Ludlow, Wash. Ziegler, a University of Wisconsin Women's team recruit, defeated Philippine National Team member, Lovelynn Guioguio of Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines, 5 and 4 in the 36-hole match.
07/16/11 Have you heard about the highly endangered tree octopus of the forests of the Pacific Northwest? "Ridiculous," you say? But I found a whole webpage devoted to saving them, so they must exist, right? Although this website was created to intentionally mislead students (see news article ) as part of a scientific study , it points out a real problem our society faces in the digital information age ...
07/15/11 Pacific Northwest News is an aggregation of stories you'll want to read from news sources around the region, as far north as Alaska and from Eastern Idaho to the Pacific Coast.
07/14/11 No. 2 seed Matt Rawitzer and third-seeded Chris Williams were among upset victims in match play Thursday as the Pacific Northwest Men's Amateur was pared to eight golfers.
07/14/11 There is literally a way to undercut dust emissions in the very driest parts of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia Plateau region, according to an agricultural scientist.
07/14/11 There is literally a way to undercut dust emissions in the very driest parts of the Pacific Northwest's Columbia Plateau region, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist. Brenton Sharratt, research leader at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Land Management and Water Conservation Research Unit in Pullman, Wash., found that undercutting is a promising conservation ...
07/14/11 Pacific Northwest News is a mash-up of stories you'll want to read from news sources around the region, from Alaska to Oregon's Southern border and from Eastern Idaho to the Pacific Coast.
07/14/11 In the West , monsoon showers have diminished, although some spotty activity lingers in New Mexico. Elsewhere, cool weather is slowing crop development, most notably in the Pacific Northwest.
07/14/11 ( USDA Forest Service - Pacific Northwest Research Station ) Thumbing through this guide and viewing the color and beauty of each plant, it is hard to realize that these are pests and invasive species. The recent release, "Nonnative Invasive Plants of Pacific Coast Forests: A Field Guide for Identification," by the Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station, is a concise and well ...
07/13/11 When Carrie Dragland returns to the Pacific Northwest next June for the 2012 United States Olympic Diving Trials, it will be one sweet homecoming.
07/11/11 In the Extension Office we receive numerous questions about roses. Roses seem to be a plant nearly everyone wants to grow but many find quite frustrating or at least a bit disappointing. The spotless-leaved, heavily scented, single stem roses that we hold in our imaginations don't seem to exist in real life in our soggy, rainy, mildewy, sometimes moldy Pacific Northwest.
07/10/11 SEATTLE -- The University of Washington men's basketball team has added a familiar name in the Pacific Northwest to its 2011 recruiting class. The Huskies announced Thursday that Shawn Kemp Jr. has signed a scholarship agreement, becoming the sixth member of the UW's 2011 class.
07/08/11 SOUTH CLE ELUM - Even at a new level and with a one-month layoff, Ellensburg produced victories Thursday. The Thunder's 12U program, mostly made up of last year's 10U Pacific Northwest regional championship squad, won twice in pool play at the Babe Ruth North Washington state softball tournament.
07/08/11 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Firefighters said Friday they're getting a wildfire under control after it destroyed two houses on the Warm Springs Reservation in Central Oregon. The blaze signals a turn in fire conditions in the Pacific Northwest. East of the Cascade Range, the late, wet spring is giving way to a warmer, drier summer. "The grasses are starting to turn," said Carol Connolly, a spokeswoman ...
07/07/11 The changes have arrived! Some moisture to our south is being pulled north by an approaching system across the Pacific Northwest Thursday afternoon. What that means (with our hot air in place), is with enough instability developing, it's allowing for showers & thunderstorms. We will see them the strongest & most frequent until about 9pm & after that, beginning to die down. The area with the ...
07/07/11 After holding its own against the best of the Pacific Northwest, the Alaska Lady Ice elite basketball team is ready to take on the nation. | 
