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Until Friday, I had never seen a bear outside of the zoo.
I’ve been to Glacier National Park and many other parts of Montana, the Redwoods, Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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5/29/22
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As Memorial Day Weekend begins to ramp up, most businesses are prepping for what they hope is a busy weekend to rake in profits.
However, for one business in the East County region of Grays …
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By Allen Leister / The Daily World
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5/29/22
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A cougar attacked a 9-year-old girl attending a camp Saturday morning near Fruitland, in Stevens County.
The girl was injured and taken to a hospital, according to an email from Staci Lehman, …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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5/29/22
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Bail has been set at $20,000 for the Vancouver man accused of fleeing Centralia police officers last month after being caught stealing catalytic converters. He was arrested Wednesday after a chase …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/28/22
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The city of Portland is out $1.4 million after a person or group outside the city used a government email account to commit a fraudulent financial transaction, officials said Friday.
The costly …
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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Ben Beers was deeply upset by Tuesday’s mass shooting in Texas that left 19 children and two of their teachers dead.
Beers, 27, is a gun owner as well as a stay-at-home dad with two young …
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Lizzy Acker / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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A 38-year-old man is accused of raping a Vancouver woman after escaping the day before from the prison camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, federal prosecutors said.
Federal …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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The writer’s scheme called for a perfect crime. Then it crumbled.
For all her inventions on the page, Nancy Crampton Brophy’s plot to murder her husband unravelled almost immediately, …
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Zane Sparling / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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A Tacoma-area candidate for Washington state representative announced Friday her car was hit by gunfire in a road-rage incident in Tacoma.
Sharlett Mena, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that she …
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Sabrina Jiles / The News Tribune
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5/28/22
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Gov. Jay Inslee's appointments to an obscure regulatory panel last year have cost the state $70,000 in a public records lawsuit settlement — and forced the governor to rescind his appointees …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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A class-action lawsuit from last year demanding COVID-19 vaccines be immediately provided to all people incarcerated in Washington state prisons was dismissed Friday, as the bulk of the lawsuit's …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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As the nation focused on the massacre at a Texas elementary school, the superintendent of schools in Washington state issued a sober warning that a mass shooting could happen here, despite efforts to …
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Monica Velez / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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The City of Olympia has turned to a new permitting system to limit the number of parked vehicles on Ensign Road.
Various motor homes, campers and trailers have been parked on the road, creating …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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5/28/22
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FORT WORTH, Texas — When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shared inaccurate information on the timeline of events in the Tuesday attack on Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, he was reciting information …
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James Hartley / Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS)
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5/27/22
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Russian troops are making steady progress in Ukraine’s east on the back of more-concentrated artillery and air power, now controlling almost all of the Luhansk region and threatening to …
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Marc Champion and Aliaksandr Kudrytski / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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5/27/22
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UVALDE, Texas — Children inside a Texas elementary school frantically called 911, begging for the police to save them, as a tactical decision by a commander kept 19 officers from storming a …
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Kevin Rector, Jenny Jarvie, Richard Winton and Hayley Smith / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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5/27/22
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Keep your eyes on the cloud cover forecast for Monday night into Tuesday morning, when Earth will pass through the remnants of a comet and we could possibly see a once-in-a-lifetime meteor …
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Christine Clarridge / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Pierce County jurors awarded about $2 million Friday to a former Western State Hospital nurse and three coworkers who were assaulted by a patient at the Lakewood facility.
Bernia Garner, Karen …
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Alexis Krell / The News Tribune
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5/27/22
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Washington motorists have been on the front lines of an epic surge in U.S. gas prices in the run-up to the summer driving season.
During the past month, Washington has ranked 15th in the U.S. for …
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Centralia College celebrated the official groundbreaking for its new athletic field on Wednesday.
Joined by students, alumni, local office holders and members of the public, Centralia College …
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By Matthew Zylstra /matthew@chronline.com
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5/27/22
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