SEATTLE — More than 1,000 Seattle University students, alumni and faculty members are pushing back against the school's president after he decided to remove Planned Parenthood from an online list of health-care resources.
GRAND COULEE DAM — Washington managers are preparing for when northern pike, a voracious invasive predator, make it below the Grand Coulee Dam.
OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Ecology announced Monday it will begin collecting and incinerating stockpiles of a toxic fire retardant foam that was used by fire departments for decades before the state restricted its use in 2018.
CELILO VILLAGE, Wasco County, Ore. — The Yakama and Lummi nations called Monday for taking down the Bonneville, The Dalles and John Day hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River to restore salmon runs once the mightiest in the world.
OLYMPIA — Are high-school diplomas in Washington becoming meaningless? This is the question education officials are wrestling with as they prepare to finalize new rules governing what students must do to graduate.
EVERETT — Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary has fired a 13-year veteran of the sheriff’s office in connection with a 2018 high-speed pursuit that culminated in the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man north of Bothell.
SEA-TAC — Members of Washington's state health board heard from a passionate and raucous audience during its regular meeting Wednesday, where an emergency ban on flavored vape products was on the agenda.
SPOKANE — Sometime in early 2020, teams of WSU Health Sciences Spokane medical students and faculty will hop in an RV and head out on a road trip with a serious mission: bringing medical care to rural communities.
FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines on Wednesday pushed out its scheduled return to service of the Boeing 737 MAX another six weeks. The airline said it now expects to begin commercial service with the MAX on January 16 and will then "slowly phase the MAX in our operation over the course o…
It was all negative. That's what Maria Blancas remembers about a lecture on Yakima Valley farmworkers she heard as an undergraduate studying global health at the University of Washington.
Sno-park permits will go on sale next month with some changes this winter.
SEATTLE — It’s fall, and that means home sales are slowing down — except where Seattle-area buyers can get more house for less money.
PULLMAN — Crime rates did not substantially change in Washington and Colorado after the legalization of marijuana, matching trends in states with stricter pot laws, according to a study conducted by Washington State University researchers.
SEATTLE — When President Donald Trump announced his original Muslim travel ban on a Friday in early 2017, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson spurred his deputies on a weekend blitz so his state could be the first to challenge it.
MOSES LAKE — Norway-based REC Silicon is considering selling the company’s Butte, Montana, silicon gas facility.
KENNEWICK — The wife of Benton County Sheriff Jerry Hatcher has accused him of strangling her and making a threat during a fight about an extramarital affair, court documents show.
As families sent their children back to class this school year, Education Lab and The Seattle Times reported on the reasons why school districts in Washington spend as much as $31.5 million on transportation for homeless students.
KELSO — A rifle stolen from a Kelso resident 20 years ago was sent to the owner's next of kin this week after a Kelso police clerk found the firearm in a routine inventory of the agency's evidence department.
SEATTLE — Iranian art historian Samira Mohammadkani arrived in Seattle to join her husband, a tech worker, bringing only a purse and carry-on luggage.
Five new charter schools are expected to open across Washington next year — and they now have a multimillion dollar reason to celebrate. A Washington charter schools nonprofit has won a nearly $20 million competitive federal grant to help these new schools get off the ground.
SEATTLE — Stocks tumbled last week after a key U.S. manufacturing index fell further than expected to its lowest level since the Great Recession.
RICHLAND — The mother of two faced a judge Thursday and said she no longer hates her husband’s best friend, but she isn’t ready to offer forgiveness.
SEATTLE — DNA found on two cigarette butts was the evidence King County sheriff’s detectives said they needed to make an arrest in the homicide of Sarah Yarborough, a 16-year-old drill-team member who was found strangled on the campus of Federal Way High School nearly three decades ago.
SEATTLE — A Congressional panel investigating the deadly crashes of two Boeing 737 MAX jets that killed 346 people wants to interview the engineer who filed a scathing internal ethics complaint alleging that company management blocked key safety improvements during the aircraft’s development…
PORTLAND — Throttling back on coal-fired electricity, utility company PacifiCorp plans massive investments in renewable energy that will include — by 2036 — a huge boost in Washington state solar energy production.
SPOKANE — Every two years, policy and budget wonks at Washington’s wildlife management agency draft a new strategic plan. This cycle is the equivalent of an institutional inhale and exhale, the metronome that underlies decisions and the dates on which budgets thrive. Or die.
SEATTLE —A pair of philanthropists from Bellevue have given $50 million to UW Medicine to create an institute focused on developing treatments for brain disorders such as addiction, depression and Alzheimer's disease.
SPOKANE — The late cold temperatures of last winter had big consequences for apricots, dropping production by half.
BONNEVILLE DAM — Grain barges are again flowing on the Columbia River after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fixed a broken lock on the Bonneville Dam sooner than expected.
SPOKANE — Spokane's struggle with homelessness has, indirectly, reached the Supreme Court.
OLYMPIA — Kill fewer wolves.
RICHLAND — Energy Secretary Rick Perry promised to return when he made his first visit to Hanford in 2017, just months after being sworn in.
OLALLA — An investigation into Social Security fraud and identity theft has led investigators and federal prosecutors to reexamine the mysterious disappearance of a Missouri man whose brother from Olalla, Kitsap County, stole his identity and accessed his disability funds for at least the pa…
OLYMPIA — A for-profit signature-gathering firm deceived donors by funneling campaign money to initiative activist Tim Eyman for Eyman’s personal use, and worked with Eyman to cover it up, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled earlier this week, ordering the firm and its principal to …
SEATTLE — A new technology hub backed by big names like Intel and NASA will fund startups in health care, retail, transportation and energy — as long as they harness 5G networks.
OLYMPIA — Beginning this month, hybrid-vehicle owners in Washington state will start paying an annual $75 car-tab fee to finance electric-car charging stations they’ll never use.
SPOKANE — An estimated 99 million Americans do not have any form of Real ID compliant documents which will be required to fly domestically after Oct. 1, 2020.
YAKIMA — Central Washington State Fair attendance fell by 13.6 percent this year.
SEATTLE — A former Army captain and Amazon manager will contest U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier’s 2020 bid for a second term in Washington’s 8th Congressional District.
SPOKANE — The Better Business Bureau office in Spokane closed its doors Monday and laid off most of its sales staff, a spokesman for the nonprofit business watchdog said.
SEATTLE — Thousands of Washington K-12 students still haven’t met their vaccination requirements — and because they’re not compliant with a new state law, schools could soon ban them from classes.
Some dates become forever etched in history.
YAKIMA — Real estate companies, landlords and the Yakima Police Department are doing their part to cut down on crime through the city’s crime-free rental housing program, a city spokesman said.
SPOKANE — Over the past month, a tricked-out Honda Fit has been driving on every road in Spokane Valley, equipped with 3D imaging technology and a 360-degree panoramic camera.
Starting Oct. 1, it could start getting cheaper to buy a home around Seattle and most of Washington, including Chelan and Douglas counties.
OLYMPIA — A state agency has created an app to help teenagers and young adults quit vaping as cases of a lung illness possibly connected to vaping continue to emerge.
MOSES LAKE — In the arid land east of Spokane — punctuated by channels and basins carved by ancient hydraulic cataclysm — Washington biologists discovered a rare and beautiful genetic mutation in late August:
QUINCY — Every town needs a space where family, friends and neighbors can congregate and enjoy each other. In rural America, that space can come in many different forms.
SEATTLE — Federal lawyers defending the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) over allegations of racial discrimination and retaliation made by an African-American agent who complained about a colleague with a Nazi tattoo have asked a judge to excuse potential jurors from…
SEATTLE — Macy’s landmark store at Third Avenue and Pine Street in downtown Seattle will close in February of next year, the company confirmed Saturday, ending a long history of retail and holiday tradition as its online rival Amazon has continued to grow under the same roof.
