SPOKANE — Spring flowers can get a bad rap when it comes to the season of itchy, watery eyes and exacerbated asthma, but biologists from Eastern Washington University and Washington State University say it's mostly wind pollinators to blame for allergy season. Unfortunately, wind pollinators…
OLYMPIA By early August, school employees will be able to see exactly how much they'll pay per month for health care plans offered through a statewide system being rolled out in January.
OLYMPIA — New Direction. Enterprise Washington Jobs. Mainstream Voters of WA. Conscience of the Progressives.
Stoned drivers in Washington state are most likely to get in crashes between 4 and 5 p.m. and on Saturdays, according to a recent study of Washington State Patrol data conducted by a Seattle personal-injury law firm.
SEATTLE — Boeing said Thursday it has completed development of the software fix for the 737 MAX flight-control system that malfunctioned on the two flights that crashed in Indonesia and Ethiopia and has finished simulator and flight tests of the new system.
OLYMPIA — As the affordable-housing crisis spreads beyond Seattle, Washington lawmakers this year took steps to spur building and improve laws for renters to help prevent them from becoming homeless.
SPOKANE — Former Wisconsin governor and presidential candidate Scott Walker urged conservatives to be prepared if Washington state ever flips from blue to red during a speech to hundreds of business leaders and elected officials Tuesday in Spokane.
YAKIMA — Northwest cherry growers are expected to harvest a large crop in the coming months.
MOSES LAKE — The Port of Moses Lake is looking at the possibility of talking to the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) about power for its planned west-side industrial park.
YAKIMA — Produce labels identify and advertise. They feature original art and hint at history. Sometimes, it’s personal history.
OLYMPIA — By the middle of the next decade, Washington workers should be eligible to draw money from a special fund to help with the expense of long-term care at home or in a nursing facility through a new state program that supporters say is the first in the nation.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law a bill that creates a public option for Washington’s health benefit exchange, a move intended to lower costs and boost insurance coverage across the state.
Washington is the best state to live in the U.S., and that's not just my opinion.
WENATCHEE — Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Hilary Franz is coming to Wenatchee on Monday to chat with journalists at The World.
SEATTLE — Washington’s wildfire seasons are arriving earlier, and that’s probably not good news for anyone hoping to avoid a repeat of the sun-choking smoke that has afflicted Seattle and much of the rest of the state for the last couple of summers.
OLYMPIA — It's getting harder to tell where Gov. Jay Inslee stops and presidential candidate Jay Inslee starts.
Federal regulators will lessen their standards for potential cancer-causing chemicals in Washington's waterways following concerns by industries that the limits were at a level too microscopic to detect.
SEATTLE — One is 94, the other two are 96. They were just out of high school or a year past it when they joined up.
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill last week to direct money to tribal health-care systems and create a council focused on improving health outcomes for members of the 29 tribes here.
YAKIMA — The largest and longest-running water rights court case in the state of Washington has come to an end.
A federal judge has found that Tukwila police violated the rights of an undocumented Honduran man they arrested and turned over to immigration authorities after he had called police to report someone was breaking into his car.
Will the Yakima airport become a regular stop for ICE?
OLYMPIA — The head of Washington’s wildlife agency supported the federal delisting of wolves in an April letter.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill to put Washington state permanently on daylight time Wednesday afternoon, clearing one more hurdle in efforts to eliminate the twice-yearly clock shift.
SEATTLE — Seattle-area homebuyers have a bit of good news as the middle of the housing market continues to come down from what one local housing economist calls last summer’s “sugar high.”
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a package of bills Tuesday to combat climate change headlined by legislation to rid Washington’s electric grid of fossil-fuel-generated power by 2045, a move that makes the state a leader in the national clean-power movement.
SPOKANE — The short-term results of President Donald Trump’s trade disputes with China are clear for Eastern Washington: The value of agricultural exports including wheat, apples and cherries will be reduced.
Sticking out of the dirt just south of Kennewick is what appears to be a large vertebrae, possibly two feet long, of a mammoth.
SPOKANE —Tiny houses have gained popularity in the past few years among people choosing to live in the small spaces for environmental reasons, to be part of a community, or to alleviate the burden of a mortgage and monthly bills.
OLYMPIA — A bill that would have increased hunting and angling fees for the first time since 2011 was not approved by the Washington Legislature.
OLYMPIA — Washington’s highest court will hear a case about a voter-approved Seattle law that gave new rights to hotel workers but was struck down last year as the result of a lawsuit brought by hotel-owner associations.
OLYMPIA — The state budget approved this week includes $750,000 to launch a two-year outreach effort over impacts of a possible breaching of four Lower Snake River dams to aid in salmon recovery.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee's orca agenda is advancing in the Washington state Legislature, but with the budget yet to be decided how much of the governor's billion-dollar-bold ambition will be accomplished is yet to be seen.
PULLMAN — Washington State University learned a costly lesson after a hard drive containing the personal information of more than a million people was stolen from a self-storage locker in 2017. Now, the university is going to have to pay even more.
OLYMPIA — An effort to save the personal exemption parents can use to keep their children from receiving the measles vaccine failed Wednesday night as the Senate narrowly voted to end that practice in Washington.
OLYMPIA – Legislation focused on streamlining the process and notification requirements to felons of their voting rights and the restoration of those rights was signed by Governor Jay Inslee on Wednesday.
SEATTLE — After years of feeling ignored by lawmakers, faculty and students at Washington's community and technical colleges walked out of classes Tuesday, urging the Legislature to invest in their schools.
OLYMPIA — Washington needs to a move a lot faster to meet a self-imposed deadline to enroll all eligible children in preschool by 2022-23, a new report on the state of preschool nationwide suggested.
OLYMPIA — Washington moved a bit closer to going to year-round daylight saving time as the Senate voted overwhelmingly to ask the federal government for the ability to make the switch.
OLYMPIA — Washington residents struggling with consumer debt could get some help, including lower interest rates and restrictions on collection agencies, from a series of bills the Senate passed Monday.
OLYMPIA — The state Senate voted on Tuesday to make the procedure of scleral tattooing illegal in Washington State. The bill passed the House on March 8 in a 94-4 vote.
In the wake of the two fatal 737 MAX crashes, the leadership of the Southwest Airlines pilots union raised a shocking question last week in a note to its members: Whether Southwest, by far Boeing's largest 737 customer, should remain an all-Boeing airline.
MOSES LAKE — REC Silicon has announced that unless it can start selling its polysilicon to China, it will begin closing down its Moses Lake production facility on May 15.
SPOKANE — Grant County PUD officials said they will continue with a plan to apply for a Clean Water Act discharge permit, despite a lawsuit filed by a Portland-based environmental group.
April 11— Apr. 11—One out of every 12 employees at Spokane Public Schools could lose their jobs before the next school year.
OLYMPIA — Sexual-assault survivors in Washington may soon have a longer window to report and have their cases considered for prosecution, after the House approved a measure to extend the statute of limitations for felony sex offenses Wednesday.
CHICAGO — A federal class-action lawsuit accusing Boeing of hiding key information on the safety of its 737 MAX jet has been filed by a Boeing shareholder.
ASOTIN — A superior court judge based in Asotin was arrested at the courthouse Wednesday on suspicion of criminal sexual misconduct.
KENNEWICK — Benton County was wrong to automatically deduct money from 85 jail officers' paychecks who were overpaid three years ago, a judge said this week.