YAKIMA — A tragic day in Yakima ended Tuesday afternoon when the suspect in an early morning triple homicide shot himself in the head, according to police.
SEATTLE — A slump in PC demand coupled with a stagnating devices business and a post-lockdown gaming decline cut into Microsoft's revenue and profit, but its cloud computing unit drove growth, according to the company's second-quarter results released Tuesday.
YAKIMA — Three people were killed in a shooting at a convenience store in central Washington state early Tuesday, police said, and the suspect is at large and considered armed and dangerous.
BOISE, Idaho — Up until taking his case, Bryan Kohberger’s court-appointed public defender was actively representing a parent of one of the four Moscow stabbing victims her client is accused of killing, court records show.
Coming off a recent 12-hour night shift in Grays Harbor County, travel nurse Steven Higgs sleeps for about six hours. Then he tosses his backpack into his 2004 Nissan Sentra and starts the two-and-half-hour drive north along Highway 101 to his home and family in Sequim.
Illinois lawmakers wasted no time in the new legislative session, taking just five days to pass major gun safety measures that include a ban on semi-automatic rifles, high-capacity magazines and gun attachments that simulate automatic fire.
By nearly any measure, Washington has serious housing problems.
OLYMPIA — Democrats in the Washington Legislature introduced a measure Thursday to tax Washingtonians who have more than $250 million.
BOISE, Idaho — The already widespread gag order in the quadruple homicide case against Bryan Kohberger has been updated to prohibit more people from talking about the case.
BOISE, Idaho — At 1122 King Road in Moscow sits the gray six-bedroom, three-bathroom house that continues to be the source of significant national attention.
SEATTLE — Law enforcement officials in Clallam County have asked the public to donate to cover the cost of DNA testing on a foot found inside a sneaker that washed up near the mouth of the Elwha River outside Port Angeles in 2021.
TACOMA — Pierce County inadvertently shared the last four Social Security digits for more than 463,000 registered voters in response to a public records request, spokeswoman Libby Catalinich said Wednesday.
BOISE, Idaho — In the weeks before four students were found dead inside a residence near the University of Idaho, suspect Bryan Kohberger messaged one of the victims on Instagram — and then kept reaching out after she did not respond, according to a new report.
SEATTLE — In August, Amazon rolled out a new system to help its warehouse workers connect with a human — rather than a chatbot — when they had questions about things like time cards or time off.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Bryan Kohberger told a fellow Washington State University graduate student living in the same on-campus housing complex that he submitted his DNA for consumer genetic testing to explore his ancestry, the neighbor told the Idaho Statesman.
BOISE, Idaho — NBC’s “Dateline” and ABC’s “20/20” debuted special episodes on Friday evening investigating the quadruple homicide in Moscow, where four University of Idaho students were killed in an off-campus home on King Road.
TRI-CITIES — Wind turbines would no longer be allowed have continuously blinking red lights at night under a bill proposed by new Washington state Rep. April Connors, R-Kennewick.
Hanford is flirting with a major change in the way it tackles its worst radioactive wastes.
WENATCHEE — More fatal crashes occurred on the road last year in Chelan and Douglas counties than the last 16 years, continuing a trend of deadly accidents that began three years ago alongside the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
MOSCOW, Idaho — The preliminary hearing for the suspect arrested in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students won’t be held until late June.
SEATTLE — It’s not easy counting Columbia Basin pygmy rabbits.
SEATTLE — Starbucks employees within commuting distance of the coffee giant’s headquarters in Seattle will be required to work from the office at least three days a week as of Jan. 30, interim CEO Howard Schultz announced Wednesday.
BOISE, Idaho — The 19-page probable cause affidavit resulting from the investigation into the quadruple homicide in Moscow featured a slew of new or elaborated-upon information, including the fact that a knife sheath was left at the crime scene.
SEATTLE — About 10,000 Puget Sound Energy customers will be offered financial incentives to switch from gas to electric heat in a pilot program that will help chart a new course for the state’s largest energy utility.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Veterans Affairs would waive copays for Native American veterans at VA hospitals and clinics under a new rule the agency proposed Wednesday, fulfilling a bipartisan mandate Congress enacted more than two years earlier.
SEATTLE — Katherine Maslenikov carefully plucked a young walleye pollock specimen from a glass jar full of ethyl alcohol. The critter’s eye and insides were missing, some carefully packed in a nearby vial labeled “inner organs.”
SEATTLE — Inside two South Seattle manufacturing plants, work is slowly building back up as the aerospace industry recovers from a disastrous downturn.
Should the legal system treat drug possession as a crime? How can society compel people with serious substance-use disorders to get treatment? And how do elected officials handle those questions?
MOSCOW, Idaho — The suspect in the Nov. 13 killing of four University of Idaho students in a Moscow house not far from campus made his first appearance in an Idaho court on Thursday.
YAKIMA — The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council says it has the authority to approve two solar farms in Yakima County despite a local moratorium on solar projects.
SEATTLE — Washington’s hospital system found itself facing financial losses approaching $2 billion by the end of 2022, but health care staffers and executives are hoping the legislative session will bring opportunities for aid.
SEATTLE — French aviation safety authorities last week joined U.S. investigators in a harsh critique of the final report by Ethiopian authorities into the March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 MAX.
SEATTLE — When the pandemic hit in 2020, Debbie Wilkerson decided to retire early from her job at Jack-in-the-Box.
SEATTLE — In Dr. Thomas Insel’s new book about the mental health crisis in the U.S., he makes the stakes plain.
SEATTLE — The wave of layoffs at Amazon will hit thousands more people than originally expected.
SEATTLE — Thousands of Puget Sound Energy customers were without power Wednesday night as high winds marched into Western Washington.
MOSCOW, Idaho — Quadruple homicide suspect Bryan Kohberger is in Idaho in the Latah County Jail.
MOSCOW, Idaho — The sometimes tight-lipped nature of the investigation into the killing of four University of Idaho students and Friday’s arrest of suspect Bryan C. Kohberger is about to get even quieter.
MOSCOW, Idaho — The family of the 28-year-old graduate student arrested in connection with four Moscow homicides released a statement through the suspect’s public defender on Sunday, pledging love and support to the suspect and offering prayers from the victims’ families.
MOSCOW, Idaho — A little-known graduate student was arrested Friday on a “fugitive from justice warrant” in connection with the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students seven weeks ago in a house near campus.
Ever since the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl began showing up in the illicit drug supply in 2014, the number of U.S. overdose deaths has skyrocketed — exceeding all other accidental deaths, including car crashes and gun violence.
“It’s eerie,” said former worker Brian Urban outside the closed Alcoa aluminum smelting plant in Ferndale. No noise. No swooshing and roaring of machinery. Dead silence.
MOSCOW, Idaho — A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the homicides of four University of Idaho students.
WENATCHEE — Data in a Dec. 16 Bloomberg.com article suggested that Wenatchee saw its cost of living rise up the ranks faster than any other American metro area over the past decade. But a closer look at the numbers shows less jarring results, though still above the national average.
Oscar Rodriguez
World staff writer
WASHINGTON, D.C. — When members of Congress passed a $1.7 trillion spending bill in December to fund the government for most of 2023, they included more than $15 billion in funds directed to specific projects in communities across the country, including more than $464 million to Washington, …
SPANAWAY, Pierce County — Shortly after 5 a.m. on Christmas Day, Kathryn Henkel and her family were rousted by an unfamiliar quiet, a signal something was wrong.
SEATTLE — Shambrika Crawford caught her daughter trying to board a Seattle city bus to avoid the school bus outside the homeless shelter they moved into this summer.
SEATTLE — Oregon’s health agency has approved Amazon’s proposed acquisition of primary care provider One Medical, clearing a potential hurdle for the tech and e-commerce giant to gain a greater foothold in the health care industry.
SEATTLE — Washington greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 reached their highest levels in over a decade, according to the state’s latest analysis released Wednesday.
SEATTLE — Starbucks broke the law by refusing to negotiate with newly unionized workers at 21 stores across the Pacific Northwest, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by National Labor Relations Board prosecutors.
