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OLYMPIA — Finnish President Sauli Niinistö will visit Olympia on Monday, his first stop in a five-day tour across the United States.
During a short visit, Niinistö will meet with …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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3/3/23
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A lawsuit filed earlier this week by the Building Industry Association of Washington and 22 other plaintiffs seeks to overturn state building code requirements approved last year that call for the …
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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3/3/23
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The debate over teachers' ability to ask students their preferred pronouns in the La Center School District has taken a new turn, with the district updating its "gender inclusive schools" policy to …
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Griffin Reilly / The Columbian
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3/3/23
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A Tigard man suspected of killing his wife 40 years ago in Washington County died by suicide after police reopened the investigation and recently forwarded it to prosecutors, the county …
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Catalina Gaitán / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/2/23
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A shooting at a homeless encampment Tuesday in Tacoma that left a man and his dog dead began when the animal barked at the gunman in a tent, according to charging documents.
After the dog was …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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3/2/23
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A suspected serial killer who was once among the FBI's most wanted has been arrested in connection with the 1987 disappearance and alleged murder of a Bellingham woman.
Darren Dee O'Neall, 62, …
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Denver Pratt / The Bellingham Herald
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3/2/23
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Tumwater police are looking for four men they believe committed armed robberies on two separate occasions in February, according to a Tuesday post.
The most recent incident occurred at about 11 …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/2/23
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Shelton police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man whose body they found late Tuesday evening.
Officers found the man at about 11:15 p.m. on the 2300 block of Jefferson Street while …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/2/23
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State Troopers Say Suspect in Crash That Killed 2 Children Wasn't Stopped Earlier Due to Pursuit Law
A Washington State Patrol trooper first spotted a man accused of killing two children in a drunken driving crash speeding an hour before.
But the trooper couldn't stop Keith A. Goings because of …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
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3/2/23
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Two children from the Yakima Valley are dead and three more people are in a Seattle hospital after a suspected intoxicated driver slammed into them going the wrong way on Interstate 82.
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald
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3/2/23
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For the tens of thousands of Washingtonians being asked to repay more than $1 billion in pandemic unemployment benefits, state plans to cancel some of that debt are getting complicated.
In …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times
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3/2/23
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Two bold Washington state legislative proposals aimed at lifting low-income residents out of poverty toward a path of financial independence died last week in the Legislature, but advocates say …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/2/23
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Washington legislators have scrapped an ambitious plan to provide free breakfast and lunch to every public school student and are instead pursuing a more modest expansion of the program: free meals …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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3/2/23
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Right turns on red lights will continue for at least another year in Washington state, while anti-jaywalking laws could maybe become a thing of the past as lawmakers in Olympia settle into the second …
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David Kroman The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/1/23
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The Washington state House passed a bill nearly unanimously Monday that would require wind farms to turn off the blinking red lights on turbines if no airplane is nearby.
The vote in favor of …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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3/1/23
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Police took Bryan Kohberger's DNA along with a series of black clothing items from his family's Pennsylvania home, court documents released Tuesday show.
Kohberger is charged with killing four …
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review
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3/1/23
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A Vancouver woman is accused of causing her year-old son to suffer cardiac arrest after exposing him to fentanyl in a car. The incident occurred last spring, and a social worker said the mother has …
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Becca Robbins / The Columbian
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3/1/23
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In a three-hour online auction, Washington on Tuesday quietly began a new regulatory era, putting a price on some of the greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels in this state.
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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3/1/23
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A man was fatally shot inside a tent at a Tacoma homeless encampment Tuesday, according to Tacoma police. A dog, which was also shot, later died at a veterinarian's office.
A call reporting the …
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Craig Sailor / The News Tribune (TNS)
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3/1/23
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SEATTLE — Blue and orange flames flicker and whir within five massive natural gas-fired boilers, visible only through hatches where coal used to be shoveled.
They burn up to 90,000 therms …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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3/1/23
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