YAKIMA — When Scott McIlrath heard about the chilly weather forecast for this week, he pulled all the stops to get his Pink Lady and Fuji apples picked as quickly as possible.
RENTON — A King County judge on Thursday found probable cause to hold a 49-year-old Renton man on investigation of felony harassment and malicious mischief for allegedly pointing a gun at an artist hired to paint a mural in Renton's Cascade neighborhood and defacing the mural, spelling out "…
SEATTLE — Even as fewer Washingtonians filed for unemployment last week, experts warned that preelection politics could hold up much needed federal funds for the hundreds of thousands of state residents already left jobless by COVID-19.
SPOKANE — The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating a growing trend of out-of-area buyers and remote workers moving to Spokane in search of a better quality of life and affordable housing, real estate experts said at the Association of Washington Business Housing Forum Virtual Series earlier …
KENNEWICK — Fentanyl continues to be the deadliest drug in the Tri-Cities.
YAKIMA — Washington immigrants suffering financially from COVID-19 can now apply for awards of up to $3,000 per household from a new state fund.
SELAH — Selah city employees have been ordered not to remove signs put up by a group calling for racial equality and the firing of City Administrator Don Wayman, attorneys for both sides said.
OLYMPIA — As pharmaceutical companies race to create, test and stockpile doses of vaccines to protect against the coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington state is contemplating a similarly daunting challenge: distributing those doses as quickly and effectively as possible.
KENNEWICK — Kennewick middle and high school students won’t be going back to school until February.
SEATTLE — For many business owners struggling to survive the pandemic's upending of office work, news that downtown Seattle's biggest employer had extended its work-from-home policy by six months is yet another blow.
KENNEWICK — The number of new COVID-19 cases in Benton and Franklin counties nearly doubled in one day, with health officials reporting 60 on Wednesday.
The race for lieutenant governor in Washington features a Democratic congressman who's at the end of an eight-year legislative stint against a Democratic state senator who's in the middle of an eight-year legislative stint.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday announced a host of new restrictions, including limits on indoor gatherings for students, at institutions of higher education that are intended to slow the spread of COVID-19.
OLYMPIA — The number of COVID-19 cases in Western Washington is rising at “an alarming rate” and health officials say we might be joining the rest of the nation in a “fall surge” of the pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health said in a Tuesday news release.
SOAP LAKE — McKay Healthcare and Rehabilitation has cut its debt to Grant County by more than half, due in part to money the facility received after the coronavirus outbreak. Administrator Erica Gaertner said she is concerned the debt may start creeping up again, however, as McKay copes with…
SPOKANE — Rita Reeve had never put a political sign in her yard.
YAKIMA — State Rep. Tom Dent, who is up for re-election, has COVID-19, he told NewsTalk-KIT Radio on Monday.
BELLINGHAM — The closure of the U.S.-Canada border has been extended another month to Nov. 21, according to a tweet from Canadian Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair on Monday.
SEATTLE — Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz on Monday denounced ongoing property destruction and violence targeting officers in light of a first-degree assault charge filed last week against a 19-year-old Kirkland man who is accused of striking an officer in the head with an aluminum …
KENNEWICK — The number of COVID-19 cases jumped by 147 over the weekend, bringing the total in Benton and Franklin counties since the start of the pandemic to 9,678.
RICHLAND — It took a jet, several drones, nine months of planning, 7 miles of empty road and one very fast car, but now Jerod Shelby and his Richland hyper car company have a new world record.
KENNEWICK — Energy Northwest is the partner in two projects picked for a new Department of Energy program to demonstrate new advanced nuclear power reactor designs.
SEATTLE — Washington’s colleges and universities were braced for a big drop in enrollment this fall, expecting college kids to opt out of remotely taught classes and defer their educations for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic.
SEATTLE — Underscoring the uneven impact of the pandemic, sales of the most expensive Seattle-area homes surged in the third quarter of the year at more than double the rate of the area’s most affordable homes.
ROSLYN — A small group of mostly volunteer firefighters armed with drip torches carefully set fire to a portion of Roslyn Ridge one afternoon earlier this month.
SPOKANE — An unnamed company has filed permits to build a massive distribution facility in Spokane Valley that bears similarities to an Amazon fulfillment center.
OLYMPIA — Dr. Kathy Lofy, Washington’s top public health officer, will leave the state’s health department at year’s end, she said in a Wednesday news briefing.
BELLINGHAM — The Lummi Nation has withdrawn from AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial, according to a news release from the tribe.
MOSES LAKE — REC Silicon has agreed to pay Grant County $13.5 million to settle all of the company's outstanding property taxes.
OLYMPIA — The Washington state Supreme Court overruled another Supreme Court decision, one from 1960, that had allowed cemeteries to discriminate on the basis of race.
OLYMPIA — New unemployment claims in Washington state jumped to their highest level since early August as uncertainties over COVID-19 continue to blunt a jobs market recovery.
OLYMPIA — Don’t expect your license tabs to go down to $30 any time soon.
SEATTLE — The Seattle-area nursing home resident first tested positive for the novel coronavirus in early March. He spent more than 40 days in the hospital with fever, pneumonia and difficulty breathing before testing negative multiple times and being discharged.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley residents can expect to start seeing ballots arriving in their mailbox as early as Friday.
SEATTLE — It's no secret that Seattle has a large, thriving LGBTQ+ community — but new data shows Seattle even rivals San Francisco, the city often called the gay capital of the U.S.
SPOKANE — Federal officials have rolled out streamlined requirements that simplify how small businesses apply for forgiveness of loan amounts of $50,000 or less that were approved for small businesses as part of the Payroll Protection Program.
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University announced that most courses will be online for the winter 2021 quarter.
WENATCHEE — Wenatchee Valley residents can expect to start seeing ballots arriving in their mailbox as early as Friday.
SEATTLE — The University of Washington could levy "harsher disciplinary actions" against UW's Greek Row for a growing COVID-19 outbreak involving hundreds of students, UW officials said.
OLYMPIA — Twitter will pay $100,000 for failing to retain required records about political ads from Washington candidates that ran over a seven-year period before the social media platform banned all political advertising.
QUINCY — Metal roofing was blown clear from the top of the gymnasium of Ancient Lakes Elementary in Quincy on Tuesday afternoon during a windstorm that swept across Central and Eastern Washington, according to local fire officials.
SPOKANE — COVID-19 continues to course through college campuses in Eastern Washington, despite some universities only offering virtual classes.
BLAINE — Washington’s hunt for the Asian giant hornet had a breakthrough this month followed by heartbreak.
SPOKANE — Infested apples Gov. Jay Inslee brought to Central and Eastern Washington last month in a goodwill gesture gone bad have been rounded up and destroyed.
MATTAWA — A Mattawa woman in her 30s has died from complications of COVID-19, the Grant County Health District reported on Monday.
MOSES LAKE — If all goes according to plan, the in-class portion of “blended” instruction at Moses Lake High School will resume on Nov. 2.
WENATCHEE — The National Weather Service has issued a high-wind warning starting Tuesday afternoon for much of North Central Washington.
CHENEY — Throughout his career in academia, David May says he never had his sights set on a top leadership position.
PASCO — A tense political season is leading to an increasing number of reports of vandalism and at least one personal attack.
SPOKANE — Researchers are working to understand the impact of the pandemic on cancer patients in Washington state, and specifically in the Inland Northwest.
