Smith spent his first year of professional baseball, 1977, with the Class A Walla Walla Padres of the Northwest League.

Lewiston had a popular Northwest League professional baseball franchise from 1952-1974.

* West Coast League, Summer baseball league in the Pacific Northwest

He spent the first season of his minor league career with the Boise A's of the Northwest League.

For the 2001 season, Valley and Feather River folded, while league stalwart Tri-City defected to the Northwest League.

The Northwest League of Professional Baseball ( or simply the Northwest League or NWL ) is a Class A-Short Season minor baseball league.

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League.

They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

In 2008, the Wichita Wranglers minor league baseball team of the Texas League moved to Springdale and play baseball in Arvest Ballpark as the Northwest Arkansas Naturals.

Some youth club teams include the Northwest Football League ( FWFL ), the Hilliard Baseball Association ( HBA ), the Hilliard Girls Softball Association ( HGSA ), the Hilliard Optimist Basketball League ( HOBL ), Hilliard Girls Field Hockey, the Hilliard Ohio Soccer Association ( HOSA ), and the Hilliard Youth Lacrosse Association ( HYLA ).

Its sports teams participate in the Northwest Conference and Putnam County League.

They are a member of the Northwest Ohio Athletic League.

The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a single A short season minor league baseball team in the Northwest League have their stadium, Volcanoes Stadium, in Keizer.

Youth sports in Albion include Northwestern Little League ( baseball and softball ) and Northwest Little Gridders Football.

Pasco's Gesa Stadium hosts the Tri-City Dust Devils baseball club of the Northwest League.

Spokane's professional sports teams include the Spokane Shock ( Arena Football League ), Spokane Indians ( Northwest League ), Spokane Chiefs ( Western Hockey League ), and the Spokane Shine ( Women's Premier Soccer League ).

The various islands of the archipelago are separated from one another and the Canadian mainland by a series of Arctic waterways collectively known as the Northwest Passages or Northwestern Passages.

Sometimes the Pacific Northwest is defined as being the Northwestern United States, wholly in the United States.

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference ( GNAC ) is a college athletic conference which has historically operated in the Northwestern United States, but also currently includes four schools in areas not usually considered part of that region — two in Alaska ( neither of which is located in Southeast Alaska, an area often considered part of the Northwest ), one in eastern Montana ( almost never considered part of the region ), and one in the Canadian province of British Columbia ( an area included with the Northwest U. S. in the larger Pacific Northwest region ).

Some entities in the Midwest are still referred to as " Northwest " due to historical reasons, for example, Northwestern University in Illinois.

Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, and eight other lawyers, businessmen and Methodist leaders to serve the people of a region that had once been known as the Northwest Territory.

The foundation of Northwestern University is traceable to a meeting on May 31, 1850 of nine prominent Chicago businessmen, Methodist leaders and attorneys who had formed the idea of establishing a university to serve what had once been known as the Northwest Territory.

* Northwestern University-Created in 1851 to serve the people of the former Northwest Territory

* T. p. kennicotti: the Northwestern Sharp-tailed Grouse is resident from the Mackenzie River to the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

The unincorporated Patricia District, comprising the portion of Northwestern Ontario which was transferred to Ontario from the Northwest Territories in 1912, existed until 1927 when it was merged into Kenora District.

Until 1990, US West was a holding company with three Bell Operating Companies: Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph ( or Mountain Bell, based in Denver, Colorado ); Northwestern Bell, based in Omaha, Nebraska ; and Pacific Northwest Bell, based in Seattle, Washington.

On January 1, 1991, Northwestern Bell and Pacific Northwest Bell were legally merged into Mountain Bell which was renamed US West Communications, Inc.

However, on administrative terms, as Shaanxi is officially part of Northwestern China, it is considered to be part of the Northwest.

* The Northwestern United States, also sometimes called " Pacific Northwest "

Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary ( LCA ) traces its origin to the Chicago Lutheran Divinity School, begun in Chicago, Illinois in 1920 following action taken by the English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the Northwest, a synod of the United Lutheran Church in America.

KMBI & KMBI-FM are religious broadcasting stations based in Spokane, Washington, the flagships of the Moody Radio Northwest network, serving Eastern Washington, Northeastern Oregon, Northern Idaho, Western Montana and Northwestern Wyoming, owned by the Moody Bible Institute.

Northwestern Air is an airline based in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada.

And you don't meet the folks from home in Northwest Spain which has remained almost untouched by time and tourists since the Middle Ages.

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

The Canadian Great Lakes region has similarities to that of the Upper Midwest & Great Lakes region and / or Yooper dialect ( in particular Michigan which has extensive cultural and economic ties with Ontario ), while the phonological system of western Canadian English is virtually identical to that of the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and the phonetics are similar.

It has been speculated that this whale crossed from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Northwest Passage, since alternative routes through the Panama Canal or Cape Horn are not contiguous to the whale's established territory.

There has been gradual melting and recession of Arctic sea ice with extreme loss in 2007 rendering the Northwest Passage " fully navigable ".

He has been called the " father of Eskimology " and was the first European to cross the Northwest Passage via dog sled.

The Northwest Aroostook, Maine unorganized territory in the northern part of the state, for example, has an area of and a population of 27, or one person for every.

While neighbouring Nunavut is mostly Arctic tundra, the Northwest Territories has a slightly warmer climate and is mostly boreal forest ( taiga ), although about half of the territory is north of the tree line.

Since 1984, Stephenson has lived mostly in the Pacific Northwest and currently resides in Seattle with his family.

In 1967, the business school added an MBA program, which by 2010 has grown to be a highly ranked, nationally accredited evening program for working professionals in the Pacific Northwest.

According to the Toledo Metropolitan Council of Governments, the Toledo / Northwest Ohio region of 10 counties has over 1 million residents.

* Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston ( 1975 ) by Ernest Callenbach, ecological utopia in which the Pacific Northwest has seceded from the union to set up a new society.

" He governs Dalmatia ( Balkans ), Morocco, and Northwest Gaul until his death 480, but has no effective power on the Italian Peninsula.

* August 2 – Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he has made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

Tharp has since choreographed dances for: Paris Opera Ballet, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Miami City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance and Martha Graham Dance Company.

The only region where Cree has official status is in the Northwest Territories, together with eight other aboriginal languages.

Striped hyenas occasionally feed on boars, though it has been suggested that only hyenas from the three larger subspecies present in Northwest Africa, the Middle East, and India can successfully kill them.

The state of Vermont has also been affected, as has the coast of Florida, the Birmingham-Jefferson County, AL area, the Pacific Northwest and the barrier islands of North Carolina.

With the significant reduction in timber harvesting on federal lands and the implementation of the Northwest Forest Plan to protect the endangered Northern Spotted Owl, the timber economy has been greatly eroded in recent years.