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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans won control of the House, Senate and White House in 2024 on a campaign promise to conduct "mass deportations" unlike the United …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Washington state's college financial aid program is getting scaled back for the first time in recent memory.
State lawmakers reduced income eligibility for full awards and lowered the aid …
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Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson recently signed Senate Bill 1644 into law, establishing enhanced safety and health regulations for minors employed in both agricultural and non-agricultural …
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Nance Beston / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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5/5/25
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A 70-year-old man who died after being struck by two vehicles on Martin Way Friday night has been identified by the Thurston County Coroner.
Antonio Lopez, of Lacey, died at the scene, Coroner …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Two men died in what police said were unrelated shootings Saturday in Federal Way.
The first occurred at 4:20 p.m., when police responded to a call that a man had been shot in the 1100 block of …
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Seattle police are searching for a man who escaped custody Sunday morning at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport before fleeing in handcuffs by light rail.
According to an airport …
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/25
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This year's legislative session in Olympia was dominated by talk of shortfalls, taxes and impacts from the Trump administration.
But, as usual, lawmakers considered many bills that cruised under …
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/5/25
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The Olympia City Council is set to discuss city-scale actions that could provide reparations to the descendants of enslaved African people when it holds a June 24 study session.
More than 400 …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Two veterans of the Lakewood Police Department, including a sergeant who was the president of the Lakewood Police Independent Guild, were suspended after investigations found they made inappropriate …
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Becca Most / The News Tribune (TNS)
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5/5/25
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More than 70 footwear companies asked President Donald Trump to exempt their products from sweeping new tariffs they said pose an “existential threat” to the industry.
Members of the …
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Matthew Kish / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Police are investigating the death of a man wounded in an assault in Vancouver on Saturday.
Officers found the badly injured man around 4:10 a.m., in the 10400 block of Southeast French Road, …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/5/25
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Police say a Vancouver, Washington, man sexually abused a child and shared sexually explicit material featuring children with the operator of an online chat room.
Vancouver police said they …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/5/25
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An upstart commercial driving academy with branches in Washington and Oregon was allegedly bribing an independent driving tester to obtain passing grades on exams for its unqualified students in …
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Ted Sickinger / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/5/25
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A body found along the Willamette River shore on Sunday is believed to be 20-year-old Californian Marcelus Angelo Rodriguez, officials said. Rodriguez accidentally went over Willamette Falls in a …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/5/25
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The curtain is officially rising on Washington’s 2025 election season.
Candidates can begin filing at 8 a.m. Monday for more than 3,200 seats on city councils, county commissions, …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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5/5/25
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As the organized labor movement marked May Day this week, fledgling unions at Seattle-area giants worried that long-stalled negotiations may be dead in the water as the National Labor Relations Board …
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/3/25
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West Coast lawmakers and port officials issued stark warnings Thursday about the growing economic risks for businesses and consumers from a full-blown trade war.
“Small businesses … …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/3/25
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Energy Northwest has been fined $4,000 after a spill of lubricating oil that polluted the Columbia River at its nuclear power plant north of Richland.
The oil spilled on June 13, 2023, and the …
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By Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/3/25
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A rainy morning in a North Spokane neighborhood erupted Tuesday with the kind legal reckoning that's uprooting families across Washington and the country.
A series of videos captured the …
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Thomas Clouse and Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/3/25
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A former city clerk in New Plymouth, who served in the role for over a decade, pleaded guilty to a scheme that saw her defraud the small Southwest Idaho town of nearly $200,000, acting U.S. Attorney …
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Ashley Fredde / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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5/3/25
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