SEATTLE — When she heard the explosions, Rebeca Muñiz knew her plans to participate in peaceful demonstrations in downtown Seattle last Saturday effectively had been blown apart, too.
OLYMPIA — Thurston County Democrats Chair Victor Minjares realized something was very wrong over the weekend when the party's cellphone started buzzing with abuse and threats.
BELLINGHAM — There's some good news in the fight to keep the Asian giant hornet from making a home in Whatcom County and the rest of the state.
RICHLAND — Weekend lightning storms sparked several wildfires over the weekend at Hanford, including one that spread over 9,000 acres.
YAKIMA — Yakima County isn’t ready to progress to a “Phase 1.5” of the state’s reopening plan until there’s improvement in coronavirus metrics, the county’s health officer said Monday.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday rebuked President Donald Trump after the president suggested governors were “weak” for not cracking down harder on protests over the death of George Floyd and threatened to send in the military to squelch demonstrations.
SEATTLE — Protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a white police officer who kneeled on his neck in Minneapolis, continued for a fourth day Monday in Seattle, with one having an all-too-familiar outcome: a violent confrontation with police.
EPHRATA — Grant County PUD commissioners will discuss a temporary 4 percent rate cut for residential, irrigation, and small and medium commercial customers at its June 9 meeting.
SEATTLE — As hundreds of businesspeople and volunteers spent Sunday cleaning up the damage from two nights of rioting, there was a palpable sense of resolve to get past this latest setback to a downtown business community that has seen more than its share of adversity.
BELLEVUE — Bellevue declared a civil emergency throughout the Eastside city and imposed a curfew Sunday evening for downtown in response to protests that began in the afternoon and turned violent after groups broke into the city's high-end malls and started stealing items.
SEATTLE — Andre Taylor knew the situation was volatile when he set out to organize a peaceful demonstration in Seattle on Saturday for people to voice sadness and anger over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned under a white police officer’s knee pressed to his throat.
CHENEY — Eastern Washington University’s board of trustees may declare a “severe financial crisis” this month as the university faces unprecedented drops in state funding and other revenue because of the coronavirus pandemic.
SEATTLE — A Seattle-based factory trawler cut short its fishing season off the Washington coast after 85 of 126 crew tested positive for COVID-19 in screening results obtained Saturday, according to a statement released by American Seafoods, which operates the vessel.
VANCOUVER — Vancouver Public Schools director Mark Stoker resigned Monday after fallout from his tweet suggesting that fire hoses be used to quell demonstrators protesting police brutality against the black community.
OKANOGAN — The chairman of the Okanogan County Commission reposted a photo of a bloodstained truck with the words “just drove through Minneapolis didn’t see any protesters,” on Friday. Within a day, a crowd of roughly 500 commenters condemned the post.
SEATTLE — Hundreds of Seattle protesters came together Saturday to voice the sadness and fury that has spread across the country over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being pinned beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer for almost nine minutes.
SPOKANE — A peaceful protest that drew thousands of people to downtown Spokane on Sunday later erupted into looting, violence and confrontations with police who used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds.
SPOKANE — State Rep. Matt Shea, who after being ousted from the House Republican caucus failed to file for re-election this month, will serve as the next campus pastor at Covenant Church in Spokane.
ATHOL, Idaho — Less than 10 minutes after Silverwood Theme Park reopened Saturday, dozens of children splashed in the wave pool at Boulder Beach, adults lay out on lounge chairs and no one in sight wore a mask.
SPOKANE — Tina Murphy and Brandy Dayton drove more than two hours from the Tri-Cities to stroll through River Park Square mall for its partial reopening this week. And when they arrived, they didn’t put on masks.
Updated, 10:18 p.m. Saturday
WENATCHEE — There's a potential for golf ball-sized hail, flash flooding, heavy rain, strong winds and thunderstorms in North Central Washington, starting Saturday afternoon.
WENATCHEE — Severe thunderstorms are predicted for the Wenatchee area Saturday evening.
Ian Dunn
Sports Editor
SEATTLE — The Columbia is the great river of the West, winding from the north to meet its largest tributary, the Snake in Eastern Washington, then dividing the states of Oregon and Washington on its push to the sea. Big and powerful, its wild energy has been tamed to engineered stair steps c…
OLYMPIA — A week after acknowledging fraud losses of “hundreds of millions of dollars” in Washington’s unemployment insurance system, state officials announced Thursday they had recovered more than $300 million of the stolen funds and blocked thieves from stealing “hundreds of millions” of a…
SEATTLE — A Nevada-based property-management company that issued eviction notices to tenants in Tacoma has agreed to pay nearly $350,000, including almost $300,000 directly to tenants in the form of refunds, payments and rent forgiveness, to resolve a lawsuit filed by Washington state Attorn…
MOSES LAKE — A little history was made in Moses Lake when an AeroTEC Cessna Caravan, powered entirely by batteries, took off, flew for 30 minutes and landed successfully at Grant County International Airport on Thursday.
SEATTLE — Half of new coronavirus infections in Washington are now occurring in people under the age of 40, a marked shift from earlier in the epidemic when more than two-thirds of those testing positive were in older age groups.
SEATTLE — An emergency city council bill to restrict homeless encampment removals has generated harsh backlash from Mayor Jenny Durkan's office and neighborhood organizations as tent encampments have grown during the spread of the novel coronavirus.
SEATTLE — On a day when Boeing announced more than 12,300 jobs cuts in the U.S., with almost 10,000 of those in Washington state, the company also chose to push the button on re-starting 737 MAX production.
OLYMPIA — Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a legal challenge Wednesday against the Trump administration’s decision to roll back vehicle emissions standards, according to his office.
SPOKANE — Washington is requiring new safety standards to protect agricultural and food processing workers from COVID -19.
SEATTLE — Jeff Bezos rejected the notion that Amazon has fired employees in recent weeks for speaking about working conditions.
SEATTLE — As King County looks to slowly reopen its economy after months of closures, a comprehensive system of testing, contact tracing and quarantines will be needed to avoid a burst of new infections of the novel coronavirus, according to a new study from the Institute for Disease Modeling.
SEATTLE — A Snohomish County man who was the country’s first confirmed COVID-19 patient was probably not the source of the coronavirus outbreak in Washington state, according to a new genetic analysis by an international group of scientists.
OLYMPIA — Washington zoos will be able to reopen outdoor exhibits and allow people back under limited capacity during the second phase of Gov. Jay Inslee’s four-part coronavirus recovery plan.
KENNEWICK — No fishing license will be required to fish in Washington state on the first weekend in June and people can visit state parks for free on the same weekend.
OLYMPIA — In response to a dramatic rise in incidents of impostor fraud, when an individual using stolen personal information fraudulently applies for unemployment benefits, the state Employment Security Department has been ramping up its fraud protections.
SEATTLE — Boeing announced to employees Wednesday a first batch of almost 7,000 involuntary layoffs in the U.S., which added to more than 5,500 voluntary buyouts means it will cut almost 12,300 jobs company-wide.
SEATTLE — Classified as essential workers, Boeing employees have continued to go into the aircraft factories for weeks, weighing risks to the safety of themselves and their loved ones against the need for a paycheck, and relying on the efficacy of newly defined company safety protocols. So f…
KENNEWICK — Fentanyl is edging out meth and heroin as the deadliest drug in Benton and Franklin counties.
SEATTLE — UW Medicine, citing a budget shortfall caused by COVID-19, will furlough another 4,000 members of its workforce after bargaining last week with the unions that represent many of its employees, the hospital system announced Monday.
SEATTLE — Pain wrenched Cheri Armstrong from her slumber.
SEATTLE — Children still need to get their vaccines on time, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, health experts say.
CONNELL — A dozen inmates and four employees have tested positive for COVID-19 at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center — the second-largest outbreak thus far in a Washington state prison.
GRANT COUNTY — As Grant County readies itself to begin reopening its economy, health officials continue to work with businesses and industries to ensure that workers can return to their jobs without risking a resurgence of COVID-19.
YAKIMA — In a Facebook video, a row of candles flickered on a table at Langevin El Paraiso Funeral Home in Yakima. Each was decorated with the picture of a person who had died in April.
SEATTLE — Washington's public colleges and universities are bracing for a money crisis this fall that is likely to decimate higher education budgets.
SEATTLE — The Woodland Park Zoo's 2 1/2-month-old gorilla, Kitoko, was hospitalized over the weekend after suffering injuries in a family conflict that grew violent Saturday, zoo staff said in a news release Sunday.
The state of our vacations: Some options open for summertime fun, but others unknown during pandemic
SPOKANE — The uncertainty brought on by the coronavirus pandemic continues even with the unofficial arrival of summer on Monday.