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YAKIMA — Wapato City Administrator Juan Orozco has resigned.
A Yakima Valley legislator on Thursday honored a missing Native woman whose body was recently found near Toppenish, urging congressional action on the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women throughout the United States.
SPOKANE — Four men who have never held elected office are vying for outgoing Spokane Valley City Councilman Sam Wood’s seat, and they all say homelessness is one of the most important issues facing the region.
There are two parts to the story about CEO pay in 2018.
SEATTLE — Ahead of its official quarterly earnings release next week, Boeing on Thursday bit the bullet and announced a huge $4.9 billion after-tax accounting charge due to the financial impact of the 737 MAX grounding.
YAKIMA — The Yakima City Council voted this week to scrap outdated sections of the municipal code that prohibit cruising events in the city limits.
YAKIMA — People who provide child care inside their homes will be required to comply with new rules as of Aug. 1 in Washington state, raising uncertainty among some providers.
YAKIMA — Central Washington University’s aviation program has returned student training flights to Bowers Field in Ellensburg after a temporary move to Yakima.
SPOKANE — the Spokane Police Department has become one of 16 agencies in the state to start providing data to the FBI as part of a nationwide effort to build a database tracking officers’ serious use of force.
SEATTLE — King County public-health officials announced two more confirmed measles cases on Wednesday, bringing the total to 12 cases in Western Washington since an outbreak was declared in May.
ABERDEEN — The City of Aberdeen has delayed its plan to provide 72-hours notice to evict homeless people in the River City homeless camp until the city gets clarification from the courts on several ordinances temporarily barred by a federal judge, according to Mayor Erik Larson.
SEATTLE — Hate crimes rose 78 percent between 2013 and 2017 in Washington state, according to a new study that shows this state saw the nation’s ninth-largest rise in bias crime during that time period.
YAKIMA — An immigration forum held Tuesday evening at St. Joseph Parish in Yakima shared information about services available for undocumented residents in the Valley. Joseph Tyson, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Yakima, opened the evening by welcoming the crowd of about 200 who gathered …
TACOMA — “Wheel of Fortune,” a classic American game show, is coming to Tacoma to find its next contestants.
OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking applicants for its Game Management Advisory Council.
SPOKANE — The Northwest agriculture industry looks solid so far this year, though it hasn’t been without challenges.
OLYMPIA — County officials across Washington are racing to enter a backlog of voter-registration data into a new statewide elections system in time to get ballots printed and mailed by mid-July, for the Aug. 6 primary.
SEATTLE — In 204 days spent in space, NASA astronaut Anne McClain and her crew orbited the Earth 3,265 times and traveled more than 86 million miles. McClain, a Spokane native and Army lieutenant colonel, was part of a crew that made history as the first to edit DNA in space. She also perfor…
FRIDAY HARBOR — A new baby orca born to J pod is a female, researchers have confirmed.
GRANDVIEW — Frank Lyall has noticed plenty of help-wanted signs during the cherry harvest, which started last month.
WENATCHEE — The trip from Pangborn Memorial Airport to Chelan takes just 15 minutes. Leavenworth is 12 minutes away and Quincy only takes 10.
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SEATTLE — King County is doing something that the great majority of counties in the U.S. aren't: It's getting younger.
MOSES LAKE — In mid-June, council members for the City of Moses Lake voted 6-0 to approve a separation agreement with former City Manager John Williams, who resigned amid an investigation into misconduct complaints from current and former city employees.
OLYMPIA — A multi-million dollar project to bring electronic health records to Western State Hospital and other buildings overseen by the state Department of Social and Health Services is several years behind schedule, and the state says it doesn’t know when it will be completed.
SPOKANE — Medicine is not a field for the squeamish.
SEATTLE — Seattle Children’s reopened all of its 14 operating rooms Thursday that were closed in May after the hospital detected a fungus that had infected six patients since last year, leaving one dead.
RICHLAND — A former Richland city councilman is renewing calls to rename Lee Boulevard, which commemorates U.S. Army Corps General-turned-Confederate rebel Robert E. Lee.
EVERETT — Scantily clad “bikini baristas” in Everett, Washington, will have to cover up more of themselves after a federal appeals court on Wednesday freed the city to enforce a dress code requiring that they clothe “minimum body areas” when serving coffee to customers.
SEATTLE — Seattle Children’s hospital revealed Tuesday that one patient has died and five others have been infected by a potentially dangerous mold that has forced the medical center to indefinitely close all of its main operating rooms.
YAKIMA — A discussion about flights to deport undocumented immigrants that are operating out of Yakima Air Terminal at McAllister Field has been added to the Yakima City Council agenda for July 16.
SPOKANE — A boom in development spurred by Amazon’s fulfillment center on the West Plains and many other construction projects in the works have significantly increased demand for construction workers in the region.
If there was a severe earthquake, students inside Marysville's Totem Middle School's main building could have a frightening experience.
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Marco Martinez
Features editor
BELLINGHAM — Whatcom County industries that offer living-wage jobs in the skilled trades are finding it hard to hire workers, but several public and private-sector programs are hoping to change that.
Marco Martinez
Features editor
YAKIMA — Drought conditions this year have already prompted farmers to drill drought relief wells in the upper Yakima Basin, where the irrigation district plans an early shutoff.
Marco Martinez
Features editor
OLYMPIA — A range of new Washington state gun laws take effect in July, including key parts of Initiative 1639, the sweeping firearms measure approved last year that has sparked a charged debate over firearms, public safety and constitutional rights.
SEATTLE — Seattle Children’s Hospital has closed all 14 of its main operating rooms as it continues to work on removing the mold that was detected in its facilities a month ago, a hospital spokeswoman said.
YAKIMA — Rising temperatures and decreasing flows in area rivers could be deadly for the Pacific Northwest’s most treasured fish.
CLE ELUM — A white SUV pulled up to a gravelly stop in front of the entrance to the Cle Elum Reservoir, and a man wearing a NorthFace jacket got out. He ambled over to a Bureau of Reclamation employee wearing a hard hat and a neon orange vest.
SPOKANE — A man accused of killing his wife by lacing her ice cream with a lethal dose of pain medication in October will appear in court next week after prosecutors, who dropped earlier charges, refiled them this month.
OLYMPIA — Contractors who built Seattle's new Highway 99 tunnel may continue to sue the state for $500 million in cost overruns, despite losing steel-pipe fragments and boulders that are crucial evidence, a judge ruled late last week.
SPOKANE — A Spokane biomedical research group has waded into multiple clinical trials for new treatments to slow or more effectively treat Parkinson’s disease and other neurological conditions.
SPOKANE — A lawyer for James “Russell” Bolton, a Stevens County man accused of extorting members of his own right-wing militia group, says Bolton was not trying to hide from authorities when he fled to his father’s house in West Virginia.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board has revised a rule that would have banned advertising by marijuana retailers at Hempfest, reversing its position in light of a lawsuit filed last month by a pair of the state’s largest cannabis retailers who claimed the board was viola…
After a Democratic presidential debate in which a looming global climate crisis got only seven minutes discussion, Gov. Jay Inslee and environmental activists are renewing calls for a dedicated debate on the issue.
GRANT COUNTY — Washington State Patrol troopers deal with a myriad of tragic accidents, including deadly car crashes, but there’s a less-talked-about scene in Grant County that troopers often get called to handle: Dead or injured dogs on the side of the road.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Aviation Administration has identified a new potential risk that Boeing Co must address on its 737 MAX before the grounded jet can return to service, the agency told Reuters on Wednesday.
