Signature gatherers for two Republican-backed initiatives say people are interfering with the process and even assaulting workers.

KUOW’s Scott Greenstone has more.

Some seniors in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley will lose access to Medicare Advantage plans in 20-26. N-W-P-B’s Rachel Sun reports.

Beginning next year, several insurance providers are cutting Medicare Advantage plans in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, where almost 30 percent of adults over 20 are seniors.

The top 150 sheepdogs in the U.S. and Canada gathered in rural Modoc (mow-dock) County, California this month for the national sheepdog finals. Jefferson Public Radio's Roman Battaglia (buh-TALLY-uh) visited the Lazy Spade Ranch to learn more about this growing sport.

The city of Chewelah wants to improve outdoor recreation for kids in town.

And they just got half a million dollars in grant money to do it.

For some time Chewelah has been a small town with limited recreational opportunities for youth, according to the city administrator.

That could start to change with half a million dollars from the state of Washington.

Republic is one of 25 towns selected nationwide by the Environmental Protection Agency to help grow their outdoor recreation economy.

A heat wave in the Pacific Ocean is hitting waters from Kamchatka [kahm-CHAHT-kuh] to California.

A small town nearly 3 hours north of Spokane is one of just 25 places across the country selected to be part of a program to help revitalize its outdoor recreation economy.

Despite the federal government shutdown, clean-up operations continue at the shuttered J.H. Baxter wood treatment plant in Eugene. KLCC’s Brian Bull reports.