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A year and a half after a global pandemic and an explosion of fraud rocked the state's Employment Security Department, an audit released Monday says there's still room for improvement when it comes …
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By Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times
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12/21/22
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Amtrak Cascades’ classic evergreen and mocha colored trains are getting an upgrade with eight new trainsets and two new locomotives headed to the Pacific Northwest in 2026, Amtrak announced …
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By William Seekamp / The Columbian
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12/21/22
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A 33-year-old Cowlitz County man is charged with seven counts of possession of child porn in Cowlitz County Superior Court.
Jesse Ryan Chattick was released from jail on a $10,000 bond Friday and …
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By Matthew Esnayra / The Daily News
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12/21/22
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Clark County officials announced Tuesday the Kelso officer who fatally shot a man Saturday is Austin Foley, 25.
Police were called at 11:55 p.m. Saturday to the 2400 block of Mulberry Avenue in …
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By The Daily News
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12/21/22
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A Bellingham woman is being mourned as a "true Earth angel" after her death in an apparent shark attack earlier this month while she was vacationing in Hawaii.
Kristine Allen, 60, vanished …
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Robert Mittendorf / The Bellingham Herald
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12/20/22
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A man standing on his patio Tuesday morning near Parkland was critically injured in a shooting that left 80 shell casings outside an apartment complex.
The shooting was reported at about 4 a.m. in …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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12/20/22
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The Washington state Department of Commerce and Washington state Arts Commission recently announced that the latest round of Working Washington Grants have resulted in the allocation of $75 million …
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By Brandon Hansen / For The Nisqually Valley News
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12/20/22
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Data breaches in the state of Washington are at a historic high, with 4.5 million breach notices being sent to Washington residents in 2022. The Washington state attorney general issued a data breach …
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By Brandon Hansen / For Nisqually Valley News
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12/20/22
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This December marks a decade since Washington state became one of the first two states in the U.S. to legalize marijuana.
A look back at the cannabis industry's growth in the Evergreen State …
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Alison Saldanha / The Seattle Times
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12/19/22
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Oregon State Police are searching for a poacher or poachers who killed two black bears in Southwest Oregon in October.
On Oct. 29, a black bear was discovered in a tree with an arrow protruding …
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Catalina Gaitán / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/18/22
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A Clark County Circuit judge has set bail at $1.5 million for a Vancouver man accused of stabbing four people at a Washington casino with a hunting knife and leading sheriff’s deputies on a …
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Catalina Gaitán / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/18/22
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When Gov. Kate Brown announced her decision Tuesday to commute the sentences of Oregon’s entire death row to life in prison, she said it was a moral decision to end the possibility that the …
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Hillary Borrud / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/18/22
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A Cowlitz County police officer was involved in a shooting with a man who was reportedly suicidal and homicidal in Longview, Washington, following what appears to have been a standoff with the man as …
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Fedor Zarkhino / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/18/22
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A 75-year-old Olympia resident fired his gun into the air during a robbery at Capital Mall Friday night, according to police.
Although the man had the proper paperwork to carry a concealed weapon, …
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By Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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12/18/22
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Gov. Jay Inslee and other top government officials are pitching budget increases and a series of potentially transformative policy proposals aimed at curbing long psychiatric-related hospitalizations …
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Hannah Furfaro / The Seattle Times
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12/18/22
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Tru Most, who goes by Tru Blue in the horse arena, won first place last week in the YETI Junior World Finals of Barrel Racing in Las Vegas where she competed against 164 other teens in barrel …
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Katelyn Metzger / The Daily News
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12/17/22
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Investigators continue to sift through tips related to the killings of four University of Idaho students last month.
There are "hours and hours" of digital content submitted by businesses, homes …
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review
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12/16/22
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A couple accused of transporting the body of an 8-year-old girl from Airway Heights to South Dakota has been charged with murder.
Aleksander Kurmoyarov, 28, and his girlfriend, Mandie Miller, …
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James Hanlon / The Spokesman-Review
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12/16/22
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The city of Auburn has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a convicted and incarcerated drug dealer who was run down and seriously injured by a police officer now facing murder …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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12/16/22
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Four accused Tri-Cities drug traffickers were arrested this week in one of largest drug busts in Eastern Washington history.
FBI agents and local police officers seized more than 100,000 …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald
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12/16/22
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