Bend / Central Oregon News, Sports, Business, Weather, Entertainment, Classifieds and Local & State Headlines | The Bulletin

Use Advanced Search to filter by date and category. *keyword is required in search field.
start date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
end date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
category:
Archive Home > 2010 > October > 11 > Idaho’s lone seaport hitting hard times

Idaho’s lone seaport hitting hard times

As shipping at Port of Lewiston plummets to 1970s levels, critics question its viability

By Nicholas K. Geranios / The Bulletin
October 11, 2010

LEWISTON — The big barges and small cruise ships are almost a surreal sight as they sail past dun-colored farm fields and bare hills in the arid landscape of the inland Northwest.

But sail they do, to the western edge of the Rocky Mountains, through a breathtakingly deep valley carved by the....

Read complete article

Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.