It may be scary, but the truth is cancers occur in our bodies all the time.

One study — on the tonsils of young people — found two-thirds contained abnormalities that could lead to cancer.

Obviously, two-thirds of kids don’t develop cancer. Instead, their immune systems recognize the disease and kill it.

But trouble can start when it’s the immune system that gets cancer.

Oregon officials announced the completion of a vast database of student information, even as the state acknowledged a security lapse of personal data in another part of state government.

Drivers in Oregon and Washington are required to remove their studded tires by the night of Sunday, March 31. 

Although, if possible, the Oregon Department of Transportation says that earlier is better for taking them off, as they cause extensive damage to roads. 

"We think that there's $8.5 million in damage caused each year to state highways by studded tires," said Peter Murphy with ODOT.

"So, just keep that in mind. Use studded tires if you have to. Take them off when you can."

Bob Moore, the 90-year-old founder of Bob's Red Mill, was just a few years into the business of milling whole grains at a converted animal feed mill in a Portland, Ore., suburb when he got a visit from some gluten-free Seattleites who had come down with a business proposition: Use his business contacts to help them buy bulk xantham gum, an ingredient used in gluten-free baking to help replicate gluten's elasticity.

The party under a big white tent at the edge of a reservoir fed by the Deschutes River would have been an unlikely celebration just a few years ago, but this week environmental advocates and farmers came together to celebrate $50 million in federal funding for modernizing irrigation in Central Oregon.

If Glacier Peak were to wake up tomorrow and start rumbling, it would be hard for scientists to tell. The National Volcanic Early Warning and Monitoring Systems Act, passed in February, sets out to change that.

Glacier Peak, a volcano in Washington’s North Cascades, is only monitored by one seismometer, which is a device designed to detect shaking. That makes it difficult to tell if shaking is from something volcanic — like an earthquake or a small explosion — or caused by something more ordinary, like a small rockfall, or a glacial “icequake.”