Anna Griffin

Since the Iran conflict began on Feb. 28, gas prices across the United States have increased about 35 percent. They are now above $4 a gallon, and drivers are wincing.

The bill passed Friday by the Idaho legislature would make it a crime punishable by up to a year in prison to use a gender-designated bathroom that does not conform to a person’s sex at birth.

A governor who spent two terms cutting services to preserve Alaskans’ oil-funded annual checks is leaving office. Voters must now decide what comes next for the state’s faltering fiscal model.

Does “choice” in Idaho mean vouchers for private-school tuition or publicly funded remote learning that has brought AP classes and advanced math to the state’s rural reaches?

Where Washington, Idaho and Oregon meet, elk are straying from public to private lands, causing conflict and concern. If the Trump administration opens national forests further, it could get worse.

It would be the first income tax in Washington, affecting an estimated 20,000 households. Some of the wealthiest are leaving for Florida.

From big cities like Seattle and Portland, Ore., to small ones like Astoria, Ore., proponents of “nontraditional” romantic relationships are making headway in getting legal recognition.

The state where Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates made fortunes might have progressive social policies, but its resistance to an income tax is similar to conservative states. That might change.

The state where Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates made fortunes might have progressive social policies, but its resistance to an income tax is similar to conservative states. That might change.

Far from the national spotlight, towns like Cornelius, Ore., and Coon Rapids, Minn., are dealing with President Trump’s expanding mass deportation effort, and the effects can be acute.

Wilder, Idaho, prided itself on comity. Then federal agents stormed a racetrack outside of town in October, and the reverberations are still shaking the community.

Last week’s shooting of two Venezuela immigrants put the city on edge. Federal officials said the man who was shot had repeatedly backed into a Border Patrol car.