OLYMPIA. – The Washington State Department of Commerce today announced 20 rural cities, towns and counties will receive a total of more than $11.4 million in Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) for 2021. The 22 projects funded will:

On September 6, 2021, at approximately 6:25 pm, Idaho State Police responded to an injury crash eastbound SH200 near milepost 30, in Ponderay. Todd M. King, 50, of Elmo, MT, was traveling westbound on a black 2011 Harley Davidson motorcycle when he lost control, crossing the eastbound lane and impacting an embankment on the south shoulder.

MOSCOW —  The Moscow School District has requested that the City of Moscow explore potential modifications to the D & Mountain View intersection to improve student safety. The School District reports that families and school personnel interacting with this intersection have expressed a growing concern for the safety of students walking and biking to school. Since the start of the 21/22 school year, motorists have increasingly disregarded direction, verbally harassed crossing guards, and displayed potentially dangerous behavior.

Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined a bipartisan group of Senate colleagues to introduce a bill to award Congressional Gold Medals to the 13 American service members killed during heinous terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 26, 2021.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) has activated Crisis Standards of Care (CSC) in accordance with IDAPA 16.02.09. CSC is activated statewide because the massive increase of COVID-19 patients requiring hospitalization in all areas of the state has exhausted existing resources. CSC was activated on Sept. 6 in North Idaho. This activation, declared today, expands the declaration to the rest of the state.

COLFAX, WA – The Whitman County Sheriff’s Office and local emergency crews from the Palouse area responded to a report of a single-engine plane crash around 1100 am on Wednesday morning.  The crash occurred at a private airstrip near Ringo Road just outside of Palouse, WA. 

On September 15, 2021, at approximately 1320 hours, the Idaho State Police responded to a single-vehicle crash on US Highway 12, at milepost 24. William R. Jared, of Weippe, was driving a 1995 Kenworth logging truck eastbound.

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LC Valley: Sunny with light and variable winds. Partly cloudy in the evening and cloudy overnight. 72/47

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Priairie Area: Mainly sunny with winds NNW at 5-10mph. Partly cloudy early with increasing clouds overnight. 62/39

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SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson offers the following statement on joining a coalition of 24 attorneys general in filing an amicus, or "friend of the court," brief asking the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to put Texas’ law banning virtually all abortions on hold pending appeals:

MOSCOW — For the second year in a row, U.S. News & World Report named University of Idaho the top public institution in the West on its list of Top 50 Best Value colleges. 

KAMIAH -- At 321 AM, Kamiah Fire and Rescue was dispatched to a unknown fire behind the grain elevator and ag store off No Kid. Upon arrival three minutes later, first arriving unit found a working fire with major involvement of two large tandem axle RV trailers, ammunition, and other materials.