West Coast states will put an overall cap on global warming pollution starting in 2012. That timeline is included in a first look at how Western states and provinces will meet a shared regional goal to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Some of the radioactive waste buried at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has leaked out of storage tanks and into the soil. Federal officials say they have a final solution for this nuclear garbage: a vitrification plant, which will turn the

Idaho governor Butch Otter and aides are traveling the state, trying to drum up support for fee or fuel tax hikes to make up for a 240-million dollar shortfall in transportation infrastructure funding.

More than 46-hundred American soldiers have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 106 of them have ties to Oregon. The most recent Oregon casualty was Jessica Ellis, of Baker City, who died May 11th in Baghdad. To honor