QUINCY — Spring is in full swing in the Columbia Basin, which inevitably means it’s time to get those fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers started in the garden. While you’re at it, why not throw a blueberry bush into the mix?
SPOKANE — Spring, and all its showers, is here.
WENATCHEE — The Chelan-Douglas Land Trust has entered into a conservation easement for 2,480 acres of working lands and habitat on Badger Mountain. The deal was announced Friday.
OLYMPIA — After an emotional debate that scrambled party lines and revealed deep divisions on how to treat substance use, the Washington Senate Thursday approved a bill to treat drug possession as a gross misdemeanor.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee warned Thursday of “strong evidence” of a possible fourth COVID-19 wave in Washington, just as residents 16 years and older become eligible for vaccination.
SEATTLE — Cloud-computing and crosstown rivals Amazon and Microsoft have teamed up to defend themselves against twin lawsuits challenging how the companies built their facial recognition software.
SEATTLE — A lawsuit filed Thursday in Seattle against Boeing alleges that a malfunctioning autothrottle system on an older 737 led to the crash of Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ182 in Indonesia on Jan. 9, killing all 62 people on board.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee appointed Tyson R. Hill to the Grant County Superior Court on Thursday. He will replace Judge John Antosz, who officially retired this week.
SPOKANE — Amazon is continuing its rapid expansion in the Spokane area with plans for a new delivery station in Airway Heights.
KENNEWICK — There have been five cases of COVID-19 breakthrough in vaccinated people in the Tri-Cities area, according to the Benton Franklin Health District.
YAKIMA — State officials recommend planning early and developing alternatives for those wanting to join the crowds flocking to public camping sites as Washington’s weather warms up.
OLYMPIA — A tax credit for working families in Washington passed the Senate in a bipartisan vote April 11, with lawmakers on both sides saying the exemption for low-income earners was a long time coming.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Health on Wednesday began reaching out to residents who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine between March 23 and April 14, the day the vaccine was paused across the U.S. after federal health officials said they are investigating a possible …
OLYMPIA — In a fresh sign of the pandemic’s lingering economic impacts, thousands of jobless Washingtonians have collected their 52nd week of unemployment benefits and must now refile to keep that assistance coming.
OLYMPIA — Standardized exams for public school kids in Washington state will be delayed until the fall, state schools Superintendent Chris Reykdal announced Wednesday.
Typically known as "Tax Day," this year health officials have dubbed April 15 "Vax Day" in Washington as all residents 16 and older become eligible today for COVID-19 vaccination.
KENT — The city of Kent has agreed to pay $4.4 million to the family of Giovonn Joseph-McDade to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging police unnecessarily shot the unarmed 20-year-old Black man, killing him, following a brief chase and attempted traffic stop.
PASCO — Tiffany Smiley, who fought for the future of her husband after he was blinded by a suicide car bomber in Iraq, will run for U.S. Senate, she announced Wednesday.
PASCO — A Pasco casino and other development planned by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation has the potential to become a major employer in the Tri-Cities.
KENNEWICK — The Snake River has been named the country’s most endangered in a report from conservation group American Rivers.
OLYMPIA — Olympia will require large grocery stores to pay their employees $4 more per hour in hazard pay beginning next month.
FRANK’S LANDING, Nisqually Indian Reservation — He was arrested 50 times by state game wardens for practicing his treaty right to fish. But on Wednesday, Washington’s governor signed into law legislation that will send a statue of Billy Frank Jr. to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol.
PULLMAN — Jill Bielenberg is among those in Pullman who were not surprised that Whitman County was reclassified back to Phase 2 of the state’s COVID-19 recovery plan.
SEATTLE — Coronavirus testing got off to a disastrous start last year, putting the nation in a position of playing catch-up to the pandemic.
EPHRATA — The boom in construction is going strong in Grant County, at least in the unincorporated areas.
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers are divided over an education bill that would eliminate a standardized assessment for student teachers that critics say is inequitable and unnecessary.
OLYMPIA — Nearly two months after the Washington Supreme Court invalidated their felony drug-possession convictions, 15 people are being released from prison by a stroke of Gov. Jay Inslee’s pen.
OLYMPIA — Washington’s unemployment agency was “wholly unprepared” to prevent or even detect a massive criminal fraud scheme that stole more than $640 million amid a surge in jobless claims last year, a new investigation has concluded.
OLYMPIA — All species of hornets, including “murder hornets,” would be added to the list of quarantined pests under new rules being considered by the state Department of Agriculture.
ROCK ISLAND — Rock Island Mayor Randy Agnew is tired of the traffic on state Route 28. He would like to see the road, which links Wenatchee to Interstate 90 at George via state Route 281 and passes by his community, widened to four lanes.
OLYMPIA — Washington’s public schools soon will be required to take new steps to curb children’s exposure to lead after passage of a bill that mandates schools fix or replace fixtures that leach the toxin into water sources. The bill exempts private schools from the requirement.
QUINCY — A new gift of land to The Nature Conservancy, 282 acres near Quincy, will help secure a future for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit.
OMAK — The Associated Students of Wenatchee Valley College at Omak presents “haʔntíxʷ iʔ‿tmxʷúlaʔxʷ uł niʕ̓íp txt̓ntsis — Respect the Earth and She will Always Take Care of You” — with Dr. Jeannette Armstrong as part of the Earth Day celebration on Tuesday, April 20.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
ISSAQUAH — Steve Harrison was headed to Costco from his Issaquah home the other week when he spotted some papers fluttering in the road and pulled over to investigate.
OLYMPIA — Nowadays, the government needs more than gasoline taxes to fund its vast mission to expand, replace and preserve transportation routes in Washington state.
BELLINGHAM — Breastfeeding is not indecent exposure, according to a measure approved unanimously by the Whatcom County Council.
OLYMPIA — Washington may soon become the first state in the country to ensure that low-income tenants have legal representation when faced with an eviction, an idea lawmakers see as a way to head off a feared wave of evictions once pandemic-era rental restrictions are lifted.
OLYMPIA — A wildlife crossing project in the Okanogan Valley may get $18 million in state money.
OLYMPIA — The state House of Representatives voted 91-7 on Friday to approve legislation to allow farmworkers to receive overtime pay, and to provide protections for farmers from retroactive overtime pay lawsuits.
STEHEKIN — Little Fella, a 30-foot cabin cruiser, bounced violently in the rough morning chop, carrying precious cargo to some of the most remote communities not only in Washington, but in all of the Lower 48.
SEATTLE — In a big gravel lot near South Seattle’s South Park Bridge, a handful of small businesses might get a second chance to survive the pandemic.
SPOKANE — Washington’s snowpack is in good shape.
SEATTLE —More than two years after a University of Washington bus carrying members of the university’s marching band rolled onto its side on an icy stretch of Interstate 90, a King County jury awarded four students injured in the crash more than $1.4 million.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Many of the measures President Joe Biden announced Thursday as an effort to curb gun violence have already been enacted in some form in Washington state.
BESSEMER, Ala. — Efforts to unionize Amazon.com warehouse workers in Alabama were defeated on Friday by a more than 2-to-1 margin in a major win for the online retailer, but the union trying to organize workers said it will challenge the results, citing election interference.
SPOKANE VALLELY — Spokane Valley has hired a new employee to tackle homelessness and housing issues.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Pacific Gas & Electric is facing criminal charges again following a massive California wildfire — in this case, the worst incident of the 2019 fire season.
RENTON — Nearly six months after Boeing first acknowledged it might sell its local Commercial Airplanes headquarters building in Renton, it officially listed its Longacres campus for sale Tuesday — a move sure to intensify doubts about the aerospace giant’s long-term corporate presence in Wa…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington state will receive more than $68 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to bolster local COVID-19 vaccination programs, part of an effort to get vaccines to the communities hit hardest by the pandemic, according to the CDC.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington state will receive more than $68 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to bolster local COVID-19 vaccination programs, part of an effort to get vaccines to the communities hit hardest by the pandemic, according to the CDC.
