MOSES LAKE — While a date for the start of construction at the new Samaritan Healthcare hospital in Moses Lake hasn’t been announced, it probably will be after June 30.
SEATTLE — He would never give up trail running, but Joe Oldendorf said he will probably make some adjustments to his routine after last week, when he fractured his leg during a solo run and found himself stranded for more than 10 hours on the Olympic Peninsula.
SEATTLE — Look up toward the sky and wave hello to Earth's new mini moon — even if you can't see it.
SEATTLE — The first clinical trials for a vaccine targeting the new coronavirus will take place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.
OLYMPIA —Undocumented immigrants in Washington state may no longer need to fear unexpected arrests thanks to the protection that legislation currently under consideration in Washington state promises to provide them.
OLYMPIA — Ending a tax preference for Boeing and other aerospace manufacturers would also mean big dollars for Washington: an estimated $363 million in new state revenue through 2023.
OLYMPIA — After dire warnings about the devastation of Initiative 976, dramatic pain may not be felt in Washington state transportation plans after all.
SEATTLE — More than half of Washington community-college students had trouble paying rent or had to move in with friends or relatives in the past year, according to a new report on food and housing insecurity among two-year college students.
KENNEWICK — A statewide police organization called for an independent investigation into the allegations involving Benton County Sheriff Jerry Hatcher.
SEATTLE — Exactly one week after protests rocked his school’s hallways and front steps, Mike Prato, the president of John F. Kennedy Catholic High School is out — for now.
SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is allowing the City Council’s moratorium on some residential winter evictions to become law. At the same time, the mayor is proposing that the city spend $200,000 more on eviction prevention services next winter.
SEATTLE — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has prepared an airworthiness directive requiring all Boeing 737 MAXs to be inspected for a manufacturing defect the jet maker discovered in December.
SPOKANE — Your chance to spend the night in Washington’s picturesque Enchantments within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is drawing to a close.
SPOKANE — A recent poll of likely Washington Democratic voters gives Bernie Sanders a lead over his opponents in the March 10 presidential primary, but nearly 1 in 4 respondents said they hadn’t yet picked a candidate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday proposed that airlines complete inspections on a key component that could make Boeing 737 MAX airplanes vulnerable to lightning strikes and interference from high-power radio frequency transmitters before returning to service.
MOSES LAKE — Boeing and the Port of Moses Lake are in talks to extend the company’s leases on port space used to store 737 Max aircraft until the end of 2021.
OLYMPIA — An emergency bill to legalize sports wagering within Washington state’s Native American tribal casinos is now effectively one step from a full Senate vote on sending it to the governor’s office.
OLYMPIA — Washington House and Senate Democrats on Monday each released separate supplemental state budget plans that attempt to address homelessness and the lack of affordable housing.
SEATTLE — Tuesday in Tokyo, the board of All Nippon Airways (ANA) approved a firm order for a dozen Boeing 787 Dreamliners, with an option to purchase five more later, Boeing's first sales win of the year.
SPOKANE — WSU Health Sciences Spokane plans to expand its support for Native American students, faculty members and prospective students with a $250,000 grant from the Empire Health Foundation.
OLYMPIA — Eight-year-old Levi Markland told lawmakers Tuesday he’s not supposed to worry about dying, but he does.
OLYMPIA — House and Senate leaders have plans to fill a $450 million hole in the state’s transportation budget created by the passage of Initiative 976, but they warn it’s a stopgap measure that won’t last past mid-2021.
SEATTLE — To some it might be just a pretty hat, a gray felt topper with a cluster of flowers. But for Margarita Cromwell, 84, the hat she bought at The Bon Marché was an old friend — just like the store.
SEATTLE — A long-distance trail runner who broke his leg while traversing a remote Olympic Peninsula trail crawled toward help for 10 hours on increasingly torn-up knees.
OLYMPIA — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman says she won’t vote in the state’s March 10 presidential primary because of ballots requiring partisan declarations.
OLYMPIA — House and Senate leaders released plans to spend an extra $1 billion on state programs over the next 16 months, taking advantage of an influx in unexpected tax revenue from the strong economy to add to a budget that already calls for record state spending.
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers are trying to tackle the homelessness crisis with a wide range of proposals working their way through the Legislature.
KENNEWICK — The owner of the four-generation farm in Badger Canyon had only one thing to say to the Kennewick Irrigation District this week.
SEATTLE — Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, seemingly unfazed by a fourth-place finish in the Nevada caucuses earlier in the day, electrified a crowd packed into two buildings at Seattle Center, promising to fight hard for them if they will back her in the upcoming Washington primary.
OLYMPIA — Washington lawmakers likely won't vote to expel Washington Rep. Matt Shea from the Legislature, according to a statement by House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, D-Tacoma.
YAKIMA — A Yakima man is among the applicants in the running for an upcoming vacancy on the Washington Supreme Court.
SEATTLE — Nearly 1,800 teens, half of Seattle Public Schools’ (SPS) class of 2020, applied to attend community college through the city’s free tuition program.
SPOKANE — The four patients receiving treatment for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, at Sacred Heart Medical Center were not showing symptoms when they were transported to Spokane on Thursday, officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late Friday.
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines plans to buy 200 new airplanes for the decade ahead as part of an aggressive growth plan, and the troubled Boeing 737 MAX — grounded for almost a year and with clearance to fly again still months away — will be a big part of its enlarged jet fleet.
PULLMAN — Washington State University plans to hire an outside lawyer to review how administrators treated the school’s former provost, who described receiving sexist performance evaluations and other resistance before leaving the position last fall.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Patrol (WSP) has agreed to pay $105,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by a man who claimed he was wrongly accused of assaulting a state trooper during a 2017 protest against President Donald Trump in downtown Olympia.
OLYMPIA — The state Supreme Court has unanimously reinstated the convictions of a man who fired 48 shots at a Tacoma gas station in 2016.
SEATTLE — A traveler arrives at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport after a 12-hour flight and files off the airplane with other passengers into the airport’s international terminal, or S gates.
WELLPINIT — At 95 years old, Viola Frizzell can remember when, as a young girl, the lands of her ancestors were flooded by the waters rerouted by the Grand Coulee Dam.
EPHRATA — The Grant County PUD will buy a new mobile transformer, estimated to cost $4.5 million, as a backup in case of the failure of a permanent transformer.
SPOKANE — A state appeals court has allowed a Grant County man to withdraw his guilty plea for the 2015 killing of two of his coworkers in Royal City, court documents show.
QUINCY — The Quincy Police Department will soon have a furry new addition to the force, a K-9 unit currently in training.
OLYMPIA — Washington lawmakers elected to prohibit the transfer of inmates to out-of-state private prisons, except for specific reasons, after the Senate voted 30 to 18 in favor of Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6442.
OLYMPIA — Washington state senators Wednesday approved a bill that would begin regulating the use of facial-recognition programs by local and state governments.
OLYMPIA — Washington House and Senate lawmakers have passed four major bills that could provide relief to residents paying exorbitant prices for prescription drugs, with a focus on insulin.
SEATTLE — The Washington State Patrol Fire Training Academy near North Bend has been taken off the list of quarantine sites for people returning from the Chinese province at the center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the state Department of Health said Wednesday.
OLYMPIA — House members are being asked to sign a letter calling for their leaders to begin the process of expelling Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea.
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers from the Seattle area have restarted their push for a tax on big businesses in King County, using a technical change to buy more time.
OLYMPIA — Saying her agency was “on the front lines of climate change,” Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz this week outlined the Department of Natural Resources’ plan to mitigate climate change and prepare for a warmer future.
SPOKANE — A 24-year-old Omak man has pleaded guilty to making an online threat after posting on Facebook that he planned to shoot and kill Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich.
