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The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a man found on Lech Road near Pe Ell Tuesday afternoon, according to a news release.
The sheriff’s office said a …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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7/22/26
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Immigration arrests reached 1,593 per day in early July in a new push to detain and deport immigrants that has led to deaths in traffic stops. There were more than 43,000 arrests in June, the highest …
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By Tim Henderson / States Newsroom
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7/21/26
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Colleagues and community members are seeking donations from the community to aid Gather Church pastor Cole Meckle and his family as he fights an aggressive and terminal form of cancer.
On …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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7/21/26
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A five-month-old baby died in a vehicle fire in the Tumwater area on Tuesday, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
Two other children who were in the vehicle when it caught …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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7/21/26
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Every day seems to provide more evidence that Washington-based businesses are leaving the state or expanding outside the state because of the mounting tax and regulatory burden.
Some of those …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/21/26
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Washington’s runaway payouts for government misconduct climbed to $537 million in the past year, as the ever-growing sum continues to strain the state’s finances.
That tally from the fiscal …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/21/26
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BAY CENTER — A high-stakes battle is heating up between the non-federally recognized Chinook Indian Nation and the Quinault Indian Nation over tribal sovereignty and lucrative fisheries along the …
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By Jeff Clemens / The Chinook Observer
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7/21/26
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The “ICE memorial” on U.S. Highway 12 across from the Elma rest area was enlarged this month.
Twenty more white crosses — another row and the lengthening of the original four rows …
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By Andrea Watts / The Daily World
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7/21/26
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Earlier this month, U.S. Congresswoman Emily Randall, D-Washington, introduced the bipartisan Northwest Endangered Salmon Predation Prevention Act of 2026 aimed at helping recover endangered salmon …
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By The Daily World
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7/21/26
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Washington’s K-12 education oversight agency is proposing a series of policy changes to improve the state’s handling of teacher misconduct allegations.
In a letter sent to the state’s …
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By Moe K. Clark / InvestigateWest
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7/21/26
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Shortly after Kalispel Tribal Police Detective Phineas Haglin arrested a woman at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino outside Spokane, Washington, he found a hotel security guard and asked if video …
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By Melanie Henshaw / InvestigateWest
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7/21/26
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A Spokane man was arrested in Kittitas County for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer.
Callers in Grant County reported on July 3 a black Ford Explorer heading toward Kittitas …
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Megan Howard / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/21/26
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Washington's proposed overhaul of high school graduation requirements is coming into focus as state education leaders refine a proposal they say provides more academic rigor and time to map …
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Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/21/26
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A King County sheriff’s deputy was involved in a shooting that left a 33-year-old man dead Sunday night in SeaTac, according to Renton police.
It was not immediately made clear how the deputy …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/21/26
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The latest migration data from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that King County continued to gain residents from other states — but those gains are more than offset by losses to other …
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/21/26
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A former Bellingham resident and his son allegedly kidnapped two U.S. Forest Service biologists at gunpoint and held them hostage for 15 hours, according to federal charges filed in Northern …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/21/26
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In a first for the aviation industry, GE Aerospace flew its experimental hybrid electric aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean.
In test flights, it has successfully flown the aircraft at an altitude …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/21/26
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The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes for a 10th consecutive day even as mediators sought to revive a truce, while the Houthi militant group in Yemen threatened shipping in the Red Sea.
The U.S. …
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Moira Warburton, Patrick Sykes and Kate Sullivan / Bloomberg News
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7/21/26
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A little more than a year after President Donald Trump signed a memorandum revoking Biden administration actions that supported the removal of the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington, …
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Carleen Johnson | The Center Square
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7/21/26
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A legislative audit committee instructed the state auditor to investigate the past three years of process and legal compliance of the board tasked with developing policy and managing Alaska’s …
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Corinne Smith / Alaska Beacon
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7/21/26
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