|
Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste will soon be serving under his third chief executive.
Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson on Thursday announced Batiste’s reappointment to lead the statewide …
more
By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington Standard
|
12/21/24
|
|
Several years after it was revealed Washington law enforcement agencies had a backlog of more than 10,000 untested sexual assault kits, a new state audit has found that Washington State Patrol has …
more
By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
|
12/20/24
|
|
Incoming Governor Bob Ferguson has tapped a longtime Democratic legislator to head the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF).
On Wednesday, Ferguson announced that state Rep. Tana …
more
By Mitchell Roland / mitchell@chronline.com
|
12/20/24
|
|
State lawmakers filed a bipartisan effort Monday to reduce the standard to charge someone with driving under the influence, but there could be opposition on both sides of the aisle.
If approved, …
more
By Tim Clouser / The Center Square
|
12/20/24
|
|
In October, it was revealed that the state operating budget faced a potential $5 billion shortfall for the 2025-2027 biennium. While that figure has changed slightly, the shortfall amount for the …
more
By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
|
12/20/24
|
|
A year after naming the Northwest one of seven new “regional hydrogen hubs” in a nationwide competition, the U.S. Department of Energy is beginning its review of possible environmental …
more
By Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
|
12/20/24
|
|
Jay Inslee knows the one place he won’t be going when he leaves office as Washington’s governor next month.
Idaho.
“I am not moving to Idaho. I do not have any …
more
By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington Standard
|
12/20/24
|
|
Erin Michelle West, the teacher who died in the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School Monday in Madison, Wisconsin, was remembered Thursday by her pastor as "a godly, kind, compassionate woman. …
more
Samara Kalk Derby / The Wisconsin State Journal (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
A 12-year-old girl was hospitalized after a vehicle struck her in Tacoma on Wednesday night, police say.
Officers were dispatched around 8:40 p.m. to the 6800 block of South K Street after a …
more
Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
Two wild cougars on the Olympic Peninsula have been killed by bird flu, as the disease continues to spread to more species.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Panthera, a global …
more
Lynda V. Mapes / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
Anyone who shares useful tips related to the October ballot box fires in Vancouver, Washington may be rewarded with up to $30,000.
On Thursday, the Arson Alarm Foundation, a nonprofit that seeks …
more
Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
A closed Sunnyside company that sold juice for school lunch programs and its owner have pleaded guilty to charges stemming from inspections that found filthy, putrid and decomposing juice products, …
more
Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
New tests on DNA collected from a cigarette butt and the inside of a Chevy Blazer helped investigators unravel a grisly 1997 double slaying of a Stevens County mother and her daughter.
…
more
Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
Seattle police are asking for the public's help in finding a 53-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing a King County Metro bus driver in the University District early Wednesday, the first killing …
more
Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
|
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson have taken no action in response to disturbing revelations in recent months about a death in the Yakima County jail, including a homicide …
more
Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
Democrats nationally are reeling over the 2024 election that will return Donald Trump to the White House with a Republican majority Senate and House.
Trump's sweep of all the swing states and …
more
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
The Clark's Creek Loop Trail in Puyallup is Cynthia Woolbright's sanctuary.
The 44-year-old South Hill resident walks the 4-mile trail two or three times a week in the summer, she said, to the …
more
Alexis Krell / Puyallup Herald (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
|
A 2-month-old Lakewood infant was on life support and not expected to survive after his father allegedly shook him in "a fit of rage" to get him to stop crying early Wednesday morning.
…
more
Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
|
12/20/24
|
|
SEATTLE — It was not a smoking gun that brought down former Seattle police Chief Adrian Diaz but a steamy letter.
“You woke me up,” it read. “Like a prince in one of your …
more
David Kroman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/19/24
|
|
|
Matthew McQuin walked into a Richland WinCo Foods six years ago, and pointed the gun at the head of a woman he didn't know, then pulled the trigger three times.
The now 51-year-old believed the …
more
Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
|
12/19/24
|
