OLYMPIA — Washington residents who buy their health insurance on the state health-care exchange got both kinds of news Thursday.
RICHLAND — Sen. Patty Murray secured what could be the highest level of funding in recent years for the Hanford nuclear reservation in the Senate's proposed fiscal 2020 budget for the Department of Energy.
KENNEWICK — A group of Kennewick seniors could be the latest targets of a new type of Medicare fraud.
SEATTLE — When Pam Johnson got a phone call Sept. 1 notifying her that her husband, Christian Johnson, had been hurt while fighting a wildfire in Okanogan County and was being airlifted to Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center, she knew it was serious. But it wasn’t until she arrived at the ho…
SEATTLE — A King County teenager is the first person in Washington state to be diagnosed with a severe lung disease associated with e-cigarettes, Public Health — Seattle & King County reported Wednesday.
OLYMPIA — Washington is not agreeing to the tentative settlement some other states have reached with Purdue Pharma over the company’s role in the opioid crisis.
YAKIMA — Low cow numbers and falling survival rates among calves continue to plague Yakima's elk herd and cause significant decreases in hunting opportunities.
COLOGNE, Germany — Europe’s aviation regulator will send its own test pilots and engineers to fly forthcoming certification flight tests of Boeing’s newly modified 737 MAX, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said this week.
SEATTLE — Chronic-pain patients who stop taking opioids are more likely to die of an overdose than patients who stay on prescribed opioids, according to a newly published study of Harborview Medical Center patients.
Company demonstrates 'salmon cannon' technology's potential to restore species to the Upper Columbia
CHIEF JOSEPH DAM — Standing above the point where Chief Joseph Dam prevents thousands of chinook salmon each year from migrating upstream in the Columbia River, Darnell Sam praised new technology that could restore salmon runs all the way to Canada and beyond.
TACOMA — After years of complaints and lawsuits over its treatment of immigrant detainees, the federal government invited reporters to take an “inside look” Tuesday at its detention center in Tacoma, recently renamed the Northwest ICE Processing Center.
RICHLAND — The Richland floral shop owner at the center of a 6-year fight over religious freedom is once again asking the country’s highest court to take her case.
SPOKANE — Amazon plans to open its fulfillment center on the West Plains by mid-2020, with hiring to begin two months prior to completion of the project, according to an Amazon spokeswoman.
SEATTLE — Seattle lost the title of the nation’s hottest housing market in August 2018 — but looking at home prices, which have stayed sky-high, that might be hard for shoppers to believe.
SPOKANE — The Spokane County real estate market was bustling with activity in August, but not enough to drive up home sales, as persistently high demand and low inventory continued to be the norm.
WAPATO — Sergio Marquez, a Wapato-based apple grower, doesn’t make a big deal about paying more to get the apples picked in his 240-acre orchard.
WHIDBEY ISLAND — What happens when a reclusive seabird is spooked by a close encounter with a low-flying Navy Growler jet?
PASCO — A 24-year-old Pasco man tied to a large-scale transnational drug trafficking operation along with four extended family members is going to prison for 18 years.
SEATTLE — A former Boeing official who played a key role in the development of the 737 MAX has refused to provide documents sought by federal prosecutors investigating two fatal crashes of the jetliner, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, according to a person famili…
SEATTLE — If you're new to the Seattle area, you might have noticed your neighbors are particularly hirsute. It's not your imagination: A new study ranks Seattle the fifth most facial-fuzz-friendly city in the nation.
BANGOR — The Defense Department is diverting funding for an $89 million pier project at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor to help build $3.6 billion in fencing and barriers along the U.S. border with Mexico.
SEATTLE — The Seattle software engineer known online as “erratic,” who is accused of hacking into Capital One’s computer systems and compromising the personal data of more than 100 million customers, pleaded not guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court to federal wire- and computer-fraud charges.
OLYMPIA — A year after declaring itself a sanctuary congregation, Temple Beth Hatfiloh in Olympia officially acted on that decision late last week, announcing it would protect a Guatemalan woman and her son from immigration authorities.
Let’s get this straight — the biggest financial institution based in this state is not renaming itself after an Egyptian political party from a century ago.
SEATTLE — Flanked by mayors and elected officials from across King County, county Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan outlined their proposed plan to merge the Puget Sound’s fragmented homelessness services into one regional authority. Now, they just need their respectiv…
KELSO — A Kelso marijuana producer is offering a $5,000 reward after a group of burglars stole up to 150 pounds of pot with a wholesale value of $250,000 early Sunday morning.
CLE ELUM — A 19-year-old hiker from Spokane was found dead Sunday after he left his hiking partners north of Cle Elum on Friday and did not return, according to the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office.
KENNEWICK — A 19-year-old man remains locked up on $500,000 bail one week after he allegedly went on a two-day violent crime spree in Kennewick.
WAPATO — Wapato’s mayor pro tem and city attorney had troubling news to share at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
YAKIMA — The Yakima County Coroner's Office is warning people about a series of recent deaths associated with apparently counterfeit Oxycontin pills.
OLYMPIA — In recent years, political-action committees and large corporations have funded the bulk of Washington state Rep. Matt Shea’s reelection campaigns.
SPOKANE — A Spokane nurse has won a $260,000 judgment against the former owners of Deaconess Hospital after she lost her job in 2015 following her denied request for paid leave because she had become the victim of domestic violence.
TACOMA — He’s not running — again.
VANCOUVER — Seven more experts soon will join forensic scientists at the Washington State Patrol’s crime laboratory here to help clear the state’s backlog of untested sexual assault kits. Two robots working 24 hours a day also will be part of that effort.
BONNEY LAKE — A small traffic island between two gas stations in this East Pierce County suburb has been a flashpoint. To some, it’s where local homeless people panhandled harmlessly. To others, it is “tweaker island,” where handouts enable addiction.
RICHLAND — Not enough is known to decide on the best and most economical way to treat much of the low-activity radioactive waste in Hanford's underground tanks, said a committee of the National Academies of Sciences.
By this time two years ago, a pack of Democrats was already competing to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert in Washington's 8th Congressional District, in an early sign of partisan fervor for the 2018 midterm elections that flipped control of the House of Representatives.
PASCO — A series of disputes connected to contract negotiations between Spokane-based Oxarc and 25 Eastern Washington drivers goes before a judge in Pasco in October.
YAKIMA — It's flip-flop time again in the Yakima River basin, which is good news for rapids rafters, fly-fishers and salmon.
OLYMPIA — In recent years, debates over school lunch have centered on the food students eat (remember the argument over whether pizza is a vegetable?).
COOPER’S FERRY, Idaho — Researchers in western Idaho may have found some of the earliest evidence of human life in North America, indicating humans arrived to the area more than a thousand years earlier than previously thought.
MOUNT RAINIER — Plans for $200 million resort to serve visitors to Mount Rainier National Park are resurfacing decades after initial approval.
PULLMAN — Washington State University researchers believe they have come up with a home-run variety of wheat that grows well in the Northwest, produces high yields and provides premium noodle-making properties sought after by Asian countries in a market currently dominated by Australian growers.
RICHLAND — Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed technology that can quickly and accurately "sniff" out illicit drugs just as well as the sensitive nose of a dog.
SEATTLE — Suspected Capital One hacker Paige Thompson was indicted Wednesday, accused of not only penetrating the servers of a cloud-computing company, but of stealing data and using stolen computer power to "mine" cryptocurrency for her own benefit -- a practice known as "cryptojacking."
OLYMPIA — Washington State Department of Health Officer Kathy Lofy issued a statewide standing order on Wednesday for naloxone, a drug that can prevent opioid overdose deaths.
MOSES LAKE — Julia Smith is a relative newbie when it comes to Washington’s wolf issues.
SPOKANE — Alaska Airlines will fly direct from Spokane to Los Angeles and San Francisco beginning early next year, the Seattle-based airline has announced.
While Washington gets a lot of attention for being a millennial magnet, it’s also a great place to grow old, according to a new study from Senior Living, which found that our state has the eighth-highest life expectancy in the nation. Washington residents can expect to live an average of 80.…
OLYMPIA — State marijuana regulators are considering opening the door for smaller-scale farms producing medical-quality cannabis to deliver directly to consumers.
