SEATTLE — Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief engineer John Hamilton, who was appointed in March to lead its response to the deadly 737 MAX crashes and testified before Congress alongside CEO Dennis Muilenburg, is retiring, the company informed employees this week.
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SEATTLE — Last month, brokers anticipated local residential markets swinging, if ever so slightly, to give buyers more bargaining power.
OLYMPIA — Top House members of both parties were informed Wednesday of the results of a four-month investigation of Rep. Matt Shea, but it may be next week — at the earliest — before the public sees some version of that report.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee appointed a Whatcom County Superior Court judge Wednesday to the Washington State Supreme Court, the first Native American justice in the institution’s history.
RICHLAND — A $4 billion contract was awarded Thursday to provide sitewide services at the Hanford nuclear reservation, keeping much of the current contract ownership in place.
SPOKANE — Months after the city fired him for his behavior toward a gay subordinate, a former Spokane Parks and Recreation Department supervisor will get his old job back and, pending City Council approval, a $100,000 settlement.
KENNEWICK — Kennewick school officials are cutting hours for many substitute teachers as they try to avoid a big medical insurance bill.
OLYMPIA — Congressman Denny Heck, who has represented the Washington 10th Congressional District that includes Olympia and parts of Pierce County since 2013, announced Wednesday he intends to retire from Congress at the end of his term in 2020.
BELLINGHAM — Canada’s controversial and much delayed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project, which will nearly triple the capacity of crude oil and refined products that can be transported between Alberta and British Columbia, officially got underway this week.
SEATTLE — Just as the crucial holiday shopping season gets underway, Nordstrom finds itself under fire by animal-rights activists for being one of the declining number of retailers that still sell animal fur.
SEATTLE — The six patients came from as far as Alaska. They ranged in age from a 17-year-old girl to a 2-month-old boy. Binding them together: Harm they endured after a stay at Seattle Children’s hospital, according to three lawsuits filed Monday.
YAKIMA — Yakima County has 18 confirmed cases of hepatitis A, a number that likely will increase in the weeks and months ahead.
SPOKANE — Washington potato growers could double what they earn from this year’s crop because of shortages in Idaho, the Upper Midwest and Canada caused by bad weather in October that forced some producers to leave their spuds in the field.
OLYMPIA — Washington residents would be asked to pay an additional $5 surcharge on home and auto insurance policies to combat the growing threat of wildfires, under a proposed bill by Hilary Franz, state Commissioner of Public Lands.
SEATTLE — As more states legalize marijuana, the number of adult consumers has been on the rise. But there are only three major metro areas where cannabis is more popular than cigarettes and other products containing nicotine, according to new market-research data.
OLYMPIA — The state’s wildlife and habitat management agency is taking another crack at procuring full funding.
RICHLAND — The Hanford nuclear reservation is expanding its capacity to clean chemical and radioactive contamination from the groundwater.
MOUNT RAINIER — After higher-than-normal levels of seismic activity this weekend, Mount Rainier National Park was shaken by a 3.6 magnitude earthquake Sunday afternoon.
OLYMPIA — In 2017, Washington law-enforcement agencies and the FBI conducted a combined 580,000 background checks on gun buyers in the state.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Investment Board, which oversees $141.8 billion for 17 state retirement plans, can move forward with a lawsuit that seeks to recover millions of dollars from a soured investment in a Brazilian conglomerate that was discovered to be engaged in an international b…
CYPRESS ISLAND — Cooke Aquaculture has reached a settlement to pay $2.75 million in legal fees and to fund Puget Sound restoration projects, putting an end to a Clean Water Act lawsuit that followed the 2017 collapse of one of the fish-farming company’s net-pen structures.
PULLMAN — Washington State University last week received its first elk for a state-funded research program investigating elk hoof disease.
SEATTLE — It was smoke tricks on social media that swayed 17-year-old Audriana Slye to buy her first vape, and the weightlessness of a nicotine buzz that kept the mouthpiece at her lips for two years.
YAKIMA — Yakima’s community Christmas tree was toppled as high winds lashed the Yakima Valley on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
SEATTLE — A voter-approved measure to slash car-tab taxes is on hold while Seattle and others argue their legal case against the initiative, a King County Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday.
SEATTLE — William Ruckelshaus, picked by Richard Nixon as the first head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as deputy attorney general before being fired for defying the president in the Watergate scandal, died on Wednesday at the age of 87, U.S. media reported.
WAPATO — Wapato’s new mayor took his oath of office on Tuesday afternoon to applause.
SPOKANE — The capacity of Spokane’s new warming center more than doubled right before Thanksgiving.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a federal task force to address a nationwide crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women.
SEATTLE — Paul Allen intended to give away the majority of the $20 billion-plus fortune he accumulated as Microsoft co-founder, technology investor, real estate magnate and NFL and NBA team owner.
WELLPINIT — Joni Scott teaches language, arts and history at Wellpinit High School and has done so for more than 30 years. She lives in the community, on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and in Stevens County.
BELLINGHAM — Agents from the Bellingham Air and Marine Branch of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection last week used helicopters to pursue a man suspected of illegally flying his airplane into the U.S. and landing before taking off again and fleeing into Canada.
SPOKANE — A map created with geotagged Twitter data by food site thedaringkitchen.com has identified the most reviled Thanksgiving food from sea to shining sea, and the Evergreen State residents might be fans of apples, but think again when it comes to cranberries.
SEATTLE — When the third child in three months developed a mold infection after heart surgery, Seattle Children’s Hospital executives launched an investigation they hoped would be a model for others to follow.
PASCO — Two signatures last week started a new chapter in Pasco history.
SEATTLE — In advance of next year's short legislative session, a state work group will recommend that lawmakers pump at least $5.6 billion — through 2024 — to help schools hire nurses, psychologists and other professionals who support students' social and emotional needs.
SEA-TAC — An unregulated, controversial technology is coming to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport: Facial recognition.
IONE — At 1:15 p.m. on a Saturday last month, Tony Leonetti’s phone rang as he drove along a Forest Service road high in the hills of the Colville National Forest.
OLYMPIA — Voters unconvinced by Seattle’s claims that it will be devastated by car-tab tax cuts got affirmation Friday from the Washington State Attorney General’s Office.
OLYMPIA — Extending gun-free zones to include child care centers. Banning high-capacity magazines. Creating a licensing system for ammunition sellers.
SPOKANE — Spokane could be getting a new tallest building, besting the 38-year record held by the Bank of America Financial Center.
SEATTLE — Stepping up to a microphone Thursday, anti-tax activist Tim Eyman said he plans to run for governor in 2020.
SEATTLE — In 2012, Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) received a report that a 4-year-old girl said she saw a man in her previous foster home expose himself. About a year later, the state placed two more girls there.
SEATTLE — “I was going to say, I’m too old for this,” John Seymour, 76, jokes after finishing his weekly flamenco class at the American Dance Institute.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Stressing again the physical and sexual violence Native women have suffered for decades, members of a Senate committee unanimously passed legislation created to combat the epidemic of murdered and missing indigenous women.
HANFORD — Work has halted at Hanford to remove a highly radioactive spill just north of Richland after an eighth incident this year in which a worker’s clothing or skin was contaminated with radioactive waste.
SPOKANE — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ nonprofit will donate $5 million to Catholic Charities of Eastern Washington to help fund its latest housing project for homeless families, it announced last week.
OLYMPIA — Washington may see a slowing economy in the next few years, but a recession does not appear to be on the horizon, the state’s economist told legislative leaders this week.
SEATTLE — As scientists issue increasingly dire warnings over climate change, Washington state’s greenhouse-gas emissions continue to trend higher, according to the latest state inventory.
