The family of the man suspected of killing four University of Idaho students in November has asked the public to allow the legal process to unfold before presuming the guilt of their relative, …
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Quinn Welsch / The Spokesman-Review
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1/2/23
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More than 700 people likely died on Washington's roads in 2022, according to early estimates, a mark not reached since 1996.
As the state House and Senate transportation committees resume their …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times
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1/2/23
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In recent years, Olympia lawmakers passed ambitious laws intended to largely eliminate by midcentury most state greenhouse gas emissions from human-caused sources.
In the new session underway …
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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1/2/23
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Dori Monson, the Puget Sound region’s longtime conservative radio host from “the mean streets of Ballard,” died suddenly Saturday night at 61, in a Seattle hospital, according to …
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By Mike Lindblom / The Seattle Times
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1/1/23
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OLYMPIA — A new year often brings new laws set to go into effect, and this year brings two of the most controversial: a clean fuels standard and a cap-and-trade program.
Both programs …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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1/1/23
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Yakima police arrested a man charged with raping his daughter following a two-hour standoff Wednesday evening.
U.S. Marshal's deputies and Yakima police went to a home in northeast Yakima after …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
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12/31/22
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A Washington State University graduate student has been arrested in connection with the stabbing deaths of four students from the neighboring University of Idaho, with law enforcement vowing that …
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Emma Epperly and Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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12/31/22
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A Tacoma man was fired from his software engineering job at Zulily after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Seattle-based e-commerce company using a scheme inspired by the 1999 cult …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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12/31/22
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Almost four months after Lucian Munguia was reported missing from a Yakima park, the search for the young boy ended near a Parker diversion dam, about 7.5 miles from the place he disappeared.
A …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
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12/31/22
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It’s official: the Washington State Department of Revenue plans to collect the new capital gains income tax that was ruled unconstitutional earlier this year by a lower court …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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12/30/22
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Starbucks broke the law by refusing to negotiate with newly unionized workers at 21 stores across the Pacific Northwest, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by National Labor Relations Board …
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By Renata Geraldo / The Seattle Times
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12/30/22
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A 53-year-old Sunnyside woman accused of smuggling drugs into the Yakima County jail will spend two weeks there.
Michele Kristin Aguirre pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge of …
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By Donald W. Meyers / The Yakima Herald-Republic
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12/30/22
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Washington greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 reached their highest levels in over a decade, according to the state’s latest analysis released Wednesday.
Emissions in 2019 penciled out to …
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By Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times
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12/30/22
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BOISE, Idaho — A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the homicides of four University of Idaho students.
Law enforcement officials confirmed to McClatchy’s …
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Alex Brizee / Idaho Statesman (TNS)
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12/30/22
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A man who reportedly fled from Centralia police officers attempting to arrest him Thursday evening was still at large as of Friday morning, according to the Centralia Police …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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Five people died, including a 4-year-old girl, in three separate crashes Tuesday on U.S. 26 and Interstate 84 after falling trees struck passing trucks, according to Oregon State Police.
Just …
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Savannah Eadens / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/30/22
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A 32-year-old woman is being held without bail after allegedly shoving a 3-year-old girl off a Northeast Portland MAX station platform and onto the train tracks Wednesday, the Multnomah County …
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Catalina Gaitán / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/30/22
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A Sisters, Ore., man was arrested Wednesday morning in connection with a series of construction site and heavy equipment thefts around the Vancouver and Portland areas.
Paul Weston, 46, was …
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Jessica Prokop / The Columbian
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12/30/22
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Bloodworks Northwest declared a "Code Red" emergency blood shortage on Thursday and urged the public to donate blood immediately.
Such an urgent notice occurs after four consecutive days of …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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12/30/22
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After laying off 208 workers in Washington, Twitter is now facing eviction and will close its downtown Seattle office, according to reports Thursday by The New York Times and tech news publication …
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Renata Geraldo / The Seattle Times
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12/30/22
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