Scientists say the Pacific plate is moving toward the northwest, while the North American plate is moving more to the southeast.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

It added to the unusual population of Forks,Washington -- which is a real town in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

They landed at Hadley Rille near the Apennine Mountains, northwest of the place where Apollo Eleven had landed.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The Senate confirmed him in May. Formerly,he was the police chief in Seattle,Washington, in the Pacific Northwest.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

But roses are also native to other areas including northwest Africa, Europe and the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.15

He returned home because of the ethnic violence in Xinjiang province in northwest China.

VOA: special.2009.07.11

Chris Murray from the University of Washington in the Pacific Northwest led the study.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

Last week we told you about a prison training program in the American Northwest.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

General Franz Sigel would bring thousands more through the Shenandoah Valley to the northwest.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In Pakistan,it says, more than two million people have been forced from their homes by the conflict in the Swat Valley and other areas of the northwest.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The same thing happened in the Shenandoah River Valley northwest of Richmond.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

Douglas believed that the northwest should have two representatives in the cabinet.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

He traveled through the states of the northwest, making many speeches.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Administrators at Northwest Missouri State University wanted to find out.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

They burned the captured supplies. Then they moved a few kilometers away to a long, low hill just northwest of the Bull Run battleground, where southern forces defeated a northern army a year before.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

(Sound) He says the recent violence shows the militants want to bring the frontlines from Pakistan's violent northwest to Punjab province.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Hasham Baber is an official in the Awami National Party, a secular political party whose constituency is largely in Pakistan's northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Several senior government delegations in the past two days have visited Terre'Blanche's family in Northwest Province to offer condolences.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

General Abbas also says the military has forces deployed throughout the northwest in case there is a backlash against the offensive.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

"In terms of disruption to aviation I think this is probably the worst it's been in northwest Europe."

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Their arrival has raised the total number of displaced people in the northwest to about one million people.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

A fishery in Northwest Illinois has agreed to take in the Asian Carp to process them as fertilizer.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

Airstrikes and artillery barrages effectively ended months of negotiations to try to avoid violence by establishing Islamic law in parts of the northwest.

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

One of his goals is to raise $150,000 to help a missionary group in northwest Haiti.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

"I welcome President Zadari's determination to confront militants who have been challenging the authority of the democratically elected government in the northwest frontier province,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.17

Canada's northernmost territories Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut cover more than 3.5 million square kilometers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

The upper level winds are still transporting that down towards the U.K.and northwest Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.04.17

Passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit say just as the plane was getting ready to land there was a loud pop, and then panic.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26