Call it biofuel backpedaling. Some Oregon lawmakers say it's time to repeal a one-year old law that requires gasoline sold to contain a 10 percent ethanol blend. Chris Lehman reports.
DNA tests confirm that a wolf pack recently seen in the North Cascades are indeed wild gray wolves. Meanwhile, some Idaho residents are unhappy that the wolf is back on the Endangered Species List. Doug Nadvornick reports on these developments.
A giant underground pool at the Hanford Nuclear reservation used to hold radioactive fuel rods, sludge and garbage. But it leaked millions of gallons of that radioactive stew. Now workers have emptied the pool of its dangerous contents, and this
Hynix Semiconductor has announced it's closing its Eugene computer chip plant. More than 11 hundred employees will be laid off in the next two months. KLCC's Rachael McDonald reports.
A federal judge in Seattle is allowing an emergency grazing program to go forward. A limited number of Western ranchers will get permission to graze or harvest hay from private land held in conservation reserves. Correspondent Tom Banse reports.