RICHLAND — Kadlec Regional Medical Center has had to search across the Northwest for other hospitals to treat some of the most seriously ill Tri-Cities area patients over the last week as COVID-19 has surged again.
SEATTLE — The party starts well before the first note is played. Starting today — a full day before Watershed Festival officially begins — cars and RVs start lining up to grab prime campsite real estate at the scenic Gorge Amphitheatre. Soon legions of koozie-clutchers will roam the fields l…
OLYMPIA — Washington will follow current federal guidance for the use of facial coverings amid the COVID-19 pandemic uptick, but won’t impose new masking requirements, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday.
SEATTLE — More than 94% of Washington’s recent COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations were among people not fully vaccinated, according to a new report from the state Department of Health.
SEATTLE — Seattle is getting out of the COVID-19 testing business after winding down city-run vaccination sites earlier this summer.
YAKIMA — Campers in Central Washington and beyond have not been deterred by crowds and burn bans this summer — but they’re being asked to keep recreation spots clean and safe from wildfires, officials say.
SEATTLE — Boeing on Wednesday posted its first quarterly profit in almost two years, as deliveries of its best-selling 737 MAX jets to airlines gained traction amid a sharp rebound in travel bookings following an increase in global COVID-19 vaccinations.
EVERETT — Local startup Helion Energy said Tuesday it will build a facility in Everett to test the latest version of its “fusion energy” generator, a project it said has the potential to create electricity without producing any carbon emissions.
SEATTLE — The heat dome couldn’t have come at a worse time for Jake Sterino, the owner of Sterino Farms in Puyallup.
WENATCHEE — The next few days might not be ideal for outdoor activities as temperatures are expected to reach over 100 degrees, accompanied by wildfire smoke flowing down from the Methow Valley.
SEATTLE — Seattle home prices have once again jumped at a record-breaking pace.
SEATTLE — The city of Seattle this week dropped its counterclaim against The Seattle Times, which filed a lawsuit in June alleging the city mishandled reporters' requests for top officials' text messages during last summer's protests.
OLYMPIA — Don’t put those masks away just yet.
MOSES LAKE — Even people who aren’t building houses have heard about it — the startling rise in the cost of building a house.
SEATTLE — The highly contagious delta variant is now the most dominant strain in Washington.
SEATTLE — Sen. Maria Cantwell and two others unveiled legislation last week to support local news organizations battered by the pandemic. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 37,000 journalists have lost their jobs, been furloughed or taken pay cuts, as advertising revenue plummeted.
BLY, Ore. — Strike teams making headway against a mammoth wildfire in southern Oregon faced a resurgence of combustibly dry, windy weather on Friday, even as an outbreak of COVID-19 among the firefighters posed a new complication in battling the 3-week-old blaze.
SPOKANE — A group of 20 sheriffs and police chiefs expressed concern at a news conference Thursday about police reform legislation they say will hurt their ability to do their job, while community activists and families affected by police violence say this should only be the start of account…
OLYMPIA — Major new policies in Washington that effect drugs penalties, climate change, taxes and other issues will go into affect on Sunday.
SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department needs to find a better way to interact with anti-police demonstrators, including allowing officers to express solidarity with protesters marching against police brutality and racism, according to the first in a series of detailed critiques of the depar…
SPOKANE — Spokane residents got a taste of smoke Thursday from the numerous wildfires burning across the West, but the Methow Valley got the whole meal.
KENNEWICK — The number of new daily cases of COVID-19 in the Tri-Cities area has doubled since the end of June, coinciding with the rapid spread of the Delta variant.
OLYMPIA — New jobless claims in Washington fell last week to their lowest level since the start of the pandemic as the recovering state economy continues to reopen and add jobs.
MOSES LAKE — Because of last year’s immense fire-scar on land vital to vulnerable and endangered animal populations in the Columbia Basin, state legislators passed a Shrubsteppe Fire Recovery and Preparedness Proviso to protect Department of Fish and Wildlife lands, as well as their partners…
MOSES LAKE — A mosquito sample collected in the Moses Lake area last week tested positive for West Nile virus, the first detection in Grant County in 2021.
BADGER MOUNTAIN — Looking out over Badger Mountain’s rolling hills, Lorianna Breiler sees her home, the snow-capped North Cascades and miles of shrub-steppe.
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SEATTLE — A Seattle-based Coast Guard icebreaker damaged by a shipboard fire in 2020 is back at sea this summer on a lengthy mission that will include an Arctic transit through the Northwest Passage.
POINT ROBERTS — The Biden administration’s decision to keep the U.S.-Canada border closed through Aug. 21 is another gut punch for Point Roberts, the Whatcom County community left isolated due to COVID-19 restrictions for more than a year.
KENNEWICK — Lawyers working to get Easterday farming and ranching operations through bankruptcy reorganization have racked up nearly $4.7 million in fees and expenses in four months.
MABTON — In his 45 years of farming, Hilario Alvarez, 69, has never seen such a shortage of workers.
BELLINGHAM — While Canadians began preparations to welcome vaccinated Americans back across the border, U.S. officials remained silent on when they might reciprocate.
LONGVIEW — Weyerhaeuser announced this month it has closed the sale of 145,000 acres of timberlands in the North Cascades region of Washington to Oregon-based Hampton Resources.
The number of people hospitalized locally for treatment of COVID-19 has doubled in a week, according to data from the Benton Franklin Health District.
YAKIMA — Yakima City Councilmember Jason White attended Tuesday’s council meeting by phone, a day after a Yakima County District Court judge granted a temporary protection order against him.
MOSES LAKE — Dirt flew and there were smiles all around at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Moses Lake Food Bank Monday afternoon.
KENNEWICK — Advocates for retaining the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington are questioning whether the Columbia Basin Collaborative to recover threatened and endangered salmon species will give fair representation to Eastern Washington interests.
KENNEWICK — Dairy farmers are bracing for another agonizing stretch of near 100-degree days as they and other growers worry about the fallout from continuing drought conditions and the heat-stress on their cows.
BLY, Ore. — Fed by hot, dry winds, the country’s biggest wildfire ripped through more acreage in a southern Oregon forest on Monday, with more than 2,100 residents near the California border ordered from their homes, officials said.
SEATTLE —John Lamoine “Mo” Hargrove likely thought he was on the homestretch of the pandemic when he landed a March 6 appointment to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
NESPELEM — Lean and weathered, a horseman by trade who has broken his shoulders twice riding broncs and racing, Ralph Moses is Nez Perce by blood and no stranger to fear.
SPOKANE — For the past two years, Spokane Valley resident Mary Odette rented a two-bedroom apartment for $1,085 a month.
SPOKANE — Restrictions for Americans traveling to Canada may loosen by mid-August.
SEATTLE — Roughly 16,000 immigrants in Washington state who benefit from a federal program allowing them to legally live and work in the U.S. shouldn’t be disheartened yet, despite a Texas court ruling Friday ordering an end to the program, said a prominent Seattle immigrant advocate.
SPOKANE — After more than nine months of construction, Dry Fly Distilling's production facility is now complete in downtown Spokane.
YAKIMA — Rainier cherry trees are typically picked multiple times each season in Frank Lyall’s orchards in the Lower Yakima Valley.
WAPATO — The extreme heat early Wednesday evening didn't stop Cissy Strong Reyes and others from walking for justice for her sister and other Indigenous people who have been murdered or have gone missing.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A sprawling wildfire raging mostly unchecked for over a week in southern Oregon forced firefighters into retreat for a fourth straight day as it expanded into the state's fifth-largest blaze in more than a century, forestry officials said on Friday.
WASHINGTON — The chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee has asked the chief executives of six airlines including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways to explain reported worker shortages despite receiving billions in pandemic bailouts.
NEW YORK — A U.S. federal judge in Texas on Friday blocked new applications to a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the United States as children from deportation, but said the hundreds of thousands of people already enrolled would not be affected until further court rulings.
