West News

California’s violent crime rate has declined 6.6 percent in the past year, according to the California Department of Justice’s annual... Read More

A storm in Washington’s Columbia Basin that left up to six inches of hail on the ground damaged crops in... Read More

Yellowstone County commissioners say the tornado-damaged Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Mont., appears to be structurally sound. Commissioners Jim Reno... Read More

The Schultz fire burning in Arizona near Flagstaff has incurred up to $5 million in claims to date, according to... Read More

David Kilgore, 46, of Bakersfield, Calif., has turned himself in to the Kern County Sheriffs Department on June 17 for... Read More

A Lynnwood, Wash., man has been charged with insurance fraud after claiming that car thieves had made off with his... Read More

Survivors of a tornado that tore into Montana’s largest indoor arena and leveled several commercial buildings returned to a scene... Read More

The wildfire burning near Flagstaff, Ariz., has claimed more than 14,000 acres and is only 20 percent contained three days... Read More

Former life insurance agent James Alfred Morris, 66, of Covina, Calif., has been sentenced on June 10 to five years... Read More

Although the number of workers’ compensation insurance claims fell more than 5 percent in 2007, big jumps in the average... Read More