Residents Of Remote Oregon Town Build A Gathering Place Nearly every Northwest city and town has a center of gravity -- a place with a heartbeat. You know: Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square or Seattle’s Pike Place Market. But in the remote town of Arock, in southeast Oregon, that kind of spot has been missing for a long, long time. That’s about to change.
Local hospitals help women in rural areas get mammograms BOISE -- Did you know Idaho ranks last when it comes to women over 40 getting mammograms? That's troubling enough, but consider this, women in rural Idaho are least likely to get their mammograms and most likely to discover breast cancer in its later stages. Both St. Alphonsus and St.Luke’s are working hard to change that. Mobile mammography units now travel the back roads of Idaho and Eastern ...