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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a new plan to accelerate forest and watershed restoration.

Officials say $40 million has been allocated to fund several projects nationwide, including two forests in Eastern Washington state.

Irene McKinney, who returned to her native West Virginia and served as the state's poet laureate for nearly two decades, died Saturday morning at the age of 72.

McKinney, who was also the director of the creative writing program at West Virginia Wesleyan…

She was a woman who loved life and pushed people to embrace every moment of it. Though humanities instructor, Morgan Livingston, passed away earlier this month, her legacy continues to thrive in the hearts of her students and colleagues.

In honor of Livingston, who has taught on campus…

Back in the 1980s, when conservation advocates were trying to stop logging in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest, they relied on a 1982 regulation that required the National Forest Service to protect wildlife such as the spotted owl throughout its range. They won, and a new Northwest…

They’ve called off the cavalry in Olympia — Washington’s small-newspaper publishers on Tuesday quashed a Senate bill that would have required all residential foreclosure notices to be published on the Internet, a move that the papers fear could lead to the curtailment or elimination of…

Community newspapers, those familiar once- or twice-weekly papers that line family scrapbooks with tales of athletic glory, county-fair ribbons and Main Street parades, are as much a part of the region's history as courthouse statues and church steeples. A newspaper was often among the very…