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 …
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 — 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.
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 last week.
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BELLINGHAM — The Lummi Nation has withdrawn from AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial, according to a news release from the tribe.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.
TACOMA — The U.S. Navy is requesting permission from the National Marine Fisheries Service to conduct military exercises in Puget Sound and coastal Washington waters that would potentially harm the endangered Southern Resident orca population.
SEATTLE — Amazon’s turnover rate among front-line workers was at least double the industry average during the initial months of the coronavirus pandemic, reinforcing the view among some critics that the Seattle commerce giant churns through workers.
Washington voters shouldn’t assume the printer made a mistake when they notice their ballot has two candidates listed as Democrats in the lieutenant governor’s slot.
SPOKANE — Spokane-based Fresh Nature Foods is advancing to the next phase of a national competition to feature its products in Walmart and Sam's Club stores.
MOSES LAKE -- A man died and a woman was seriously injured in Moses Lake on Thursday after their own dog attacked them.
SPOKANE — Washington State University and Gonzaga likely will join universities across the country in cancelling spring break amid concerns that spring break travel would cause further COVID-19 outbreaks on campus.
KENNEWICK — The Benton Franklin Health District reported 14 more deaths from complications of COVID-19 in the Tri-Cities area on Friday.
KENNEWICK — The governors of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana have agreed to work together to rebuild the Columbia River system’s salmon and steelhead stocks.
MOUNT VERNON — The North American wolverine found in mountain habitats including the North Cascades does not warrant federal Endangered Species Act protection, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced earlier this month.
OLYMPIA — The Washington Attorney General's Office has fired a senior criminal investigator over his alleged behavior at a Tacoma restaurant. A server there said the investigator made a scene and stiffed her on her tip for wearing a Black Lives Matter (BLM) button.
OLYMPIA — A unanimous Washington State Supreme Court tossed out the effort to recall Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, ruling that the accusations against her did not rise to the level that would allow a citizen initiative to remove her from office.
OLYMPIA — Even as the number of new jobless claims continues to fall, the number of workers still waiting for jobless benefits in Washington state remains stubbornly high.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday again made a plea to college students : change or be ready for consequences.
OLYMPIA — Washington has extended the moratorium on evicting tenants for non-payment of rent through the end of the year as the state continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic.
YAKIMA — The state has fined Yakima Speedway operator Doug Bettarel $2,500 for allowing fans to attend the Fall Classic auto racing event last weekend in violation of the state’s Safe Start phased reopening from COVID-19.
OLYMPIA — Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee and his Republican challenger Loren Culp offered starkly different visions for how they would govern Washington in a debate Wednesday night, clashing on issues from how to stop the coronavirus, to the state’s role in climate change, to how to limit crime …
