Northwest

Spent solar panels have disposal issues.

LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) — Some wheat farmers in the northwest are considering switching crops as prices slip below the break-even mark.

GORHAM, Maine (AP) — Hop growers are looking to new places to grow the crop, which is facing an unprecedented demand in the face of the county's growing thirst for hoppy beer.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The woman who was shot to death in Spokane Valley on Monday morning had just started a new life in the Inland Northwest after leaving Boise, Idaho, to move in with her brother.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho aims to boost its residents' job prospects by intensifying involvement in an economic group that spans the U.S.'s Northwestern states and five Canadian provinces. Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter Thursday signed an executive order to create the Idaho Council of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region...