SEATTLE — Boeing Co has started delivering reworked 737 jets to customers after a manufacturing snafu forced a brief halt but the top end of its full-year free cash flow forecast was a “bit pressured”, its finance chief said on Thursday.
SEATTLE — Ostrom Mushroom Farms, a major producer in the Pacific Northwest, will pay a $3.4 million fine for gender discrimination and other unfair and discriminatory practices, resolving a lawsuit filed last year by the Washington Attorney General’s Office.
MOSCOW, Idaho — The man accused of killing four University of Idaho students in an attack that garnered international attention declined to enter a plea at a hearing Monday, forcing the judge to enter a not guilty plea on his behalf.
TACOMA — Americans are obsessed with their pets. Since the advent of the Internet, cats and dogs alike have provided an endless supply of video entertainment documenting their playful antics. Today, our furry friends continue to be some of the most-watched subjects of online videos, with pop…
The latest Washington jobs report shows slowing yet ongoing employment growth in recent months, which seems like positive news but may be a lagging indicator of a slowing economy or an impending recession.
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SPOKANE — The Idaho State Board of Education voted on Thursday to approve the University of Idaho’s $550 million purchase of the for-profit University of Phoenix that would merge the state institution with a school built on offering online degrees.
BOISE — Bryan Kohberger, the man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death in their Moscow home, has been indicted by a grand jury.
BOISE, Idaho — In the summer of 2017, Eric Valentine recalled that he was volunteering with an eastern Oregon Boy Scout troop when they encountered a group of rafters in need of assistance.
SPOKANE — Olympia-based Washington State Employees Credit Union has completed its merger with State Highway Credit Union.
OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday signed a bill into law that called for ending the current search for the state’s next major airport as he expressed a desire for a deeper review of expanding existing facilities before contemplating a brand-new one.
LOS ANGELES — Almost 40% of forest area burned by wildfire in the western United States and southwestern Canada in the last 40 years can be attributed to carbon emissions associated with the world’s 88 largest fossil fuel producers and cement manufacturers, according to new research that see…
ENTIAT — With few retail businesses in the small town of Entiat, the local chamber of commerce started the Entiat Valley Makers Market three years ago, with the help of a grant from the Chelan County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee, to encourage local tourism.
NCW — Cow bells rang furiously as hundreds of young athletes raced in teams from across Washington and Idaho on the trails at Riverside State Park’s Seven Mile area on Sunday.
SEATTLE — Despite recent tech layoffs hitting industry giants like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta, tech is still the growth industry in Washington state.
Karla Padilla-Reyna had a quintessential American Dream story.
In early 2022, as telehealth in America was booming, nurse practitioner Sara Weelborg got a recruitment email from a man named Philip Hirsch. A psychologist living just outside Seattle, Hirsch asked her to join the telehealth clinic he founded two years earlier.
SEATTLE — All the biologists I spoke with for this week's Pacific NW magazine cover story on efforts to save Canada lynx and their habitat told me the cats are one of their favorite animals — if not the favorite.
TACOMA — British Lance Corporal Cayle Royce was climbing out of an irrigation ditch in Afghanistan when he stepped on a pressure activated 20-kilogram mine, throwing him into the air. When he landed, he was missing his legs, a part of his left hand and his reason to live.
BOISE, Idaho — Among the nearly 3,000 degrees the University of Idaho will award this week in Moscow, two will be awarded posthumously to victims of the slayings last year that shook the state.
KENNEWICK — Two options that might speed up removal of radioactive waste from leaking underground storage tanks at Hanford will be evaluated, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.
WALLA WALLA — Laurie Spencer owns what she calls a "niche" operation.
KENNEWICK — It's a springtime scenario many Washingtonians are familiar with: A family of wild animals has made a home somewhere next to, near or under the house or porch and there are young ones. The question after such a discovery usually goes something like, "What now?"
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair, the largest airline in Europe, on Tuesday announced an order for up to 300 Boeing 737 Max 10s, adding to growing sales momentum — despite Max production faltering last month because of supply chain quality problems.
NCW — The North Cascades Highway, or Highway 20, will reopen for the season at 10 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a slate of housing bills Monday, capping a legislative session many lawmakers took to calling the “year of housing.”
SEATTLE — Mount Rainier National Park is seeking public feedback on a draft plan to implement a timed-entry reservation system during peak visitation hours in the summer.
SEATTLE — Fearing a flood of evictions after the end of key pandemic protections, Washington state lawmakers attempted to stem the tide with hundreds of millions of dollars in assistance and an array of new renter protections. So far, it appears those efforts have worked. But experts wonder:…
Just before Washington’s legislative session ended, in a last-ditch attempt to push through her bill mandating clergy to report child abuse, state Sen. Noel Frame proposed a compromise.
SEATTLE — They flew to Poland, then drove for 18 hours, through a war zone, to say goodbye to Steve Munroe.
For the first time last fall, Yakima County’s three county commissioners were elected in a district-based election.
YAKIMA — Water is in short supply in the Yakima River Basin this year and some irrigators may face cutbacks, Bureau of Reclamation experts say.
SEATTLE — An Auburn man and prominent member of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group, who led a pro-Trump mob to the U.S. Capitol just before it was breached Jan. 6, 2021, has been convicted of a rare count of seditious conspiracy and other federal charges.
OLYMPIA — Washington lawmakers will get a second chance at hammering out a new, statewide approach to drug possession, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday.
After nearly three years, Amazon workers are set to return this week at a scale the Seattle campus hasn’t seen since the pandemic first sent most home.
SEATTLE — Parking rates at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are set to increase June 1.
One lucky lottery player in Thurston County will be taking home $8.6 million from a Saturday drawing. They just have to claim it.
OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday he will not run for an unprecedented fourth term, setting up a wide-open 2024 gubernatorial race that will have ripple effects all down the ballot.
SEATTLE — Washington state lawmakers wrestled with and ultimately passed a bill recently that is intended to ease a persistent crisis — the state is failing to provide required mental health services for people detained in jail and awaiting trial.
For most of its 234-year existence, Americans have held the U.S. Supreme Court in high esteem.
SEATTLE — A new poll of Washington residents shows a slight majority would exit the state if they could — and there is a huge gap along political-party lines.
SPOKANE — Democrats in the state House of Representatives were stunned Sunday when, at the eleventh hour, the chamber failed to pass a controversial drug possession bill before the conclusion of the session.
SEATTLE — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a suite of five bills Thursday to shore up access to abortion in Washington, a ceremonial flourish demonstrating how blue states are reacting as the demise of Roe v. Wade approaches its anniversary.
SEATTLE — Washington lawmakers budgeted about $2 billion to boost the adoption of electric bikes, cars and heat pumps, build solar power projects, turn cow poop into energy, and fund other efforts related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The spending will reach just about every corner o…
SEATTLE — Washington’s health care system has been struggling financially, faced with ongoing pandemic burnout and inflation-related challenges. Attempting to combat those trends, state lawmakers closed this year’s legislative session with moves aimed at building up the health care workforce…
SEATTLE — Washington workers at risk of getting injured on the job may soon receive more protection from state regulators, due to two worker safety bills that recently passed the Legislature.
The Washington Legislature is sending a new battery stewardship law to Gov. Jay Inslee this week that will require battery manufacturers to take more responsibility for their environmental impact.
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WENATCHEE — The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest will have morel mushroom harvesting permits on sale starting May 1.
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