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When police closed in on a fugitive with an outstanding warrant Thursday he attempted to escape capture by ramming police cars with his vehicle. He also struck customers' cars at a mini-mart and …
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Craig Sailor / The News Tribune (TNS)
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7/28/23
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OLYMPIA — The state Legislative Ethics Board this week fined Sen. Manka Dhingra, a Redmond Democrat who is running for attorney general, for using public resources when she encouraged people to …
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Claire Withycombe The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/28/23
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The man who fatally shot a security officer inside Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center had an extensive criminal record, threatened staff at the hospital in the days leading up to the weekend …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com / (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Screenwriter Nonny Okwelogu struggles to find diplomatic words to describe the scent of people who have spent months backpacking the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. The body odor is …
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Janet Eastman / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/26/23
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A federal jury Tuesday found a former Oregon prison nurse guilty of 17 counts of subjecting nine women inmates to sexual abuse in custody and guilty of four counts of perjury.
The 12-member jury …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com / (TNS)
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7/26/23
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The parents of a 2-year-old girl injured by a falling bullet on July 4 in Independence, Oregon, said their daughter is recovering well physically but still has nightmares about the shooting.
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Nick Gibson / oregonlive.com / (TNS)
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7/26/23
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A high-speed pursuit of a stolen Hyundai Tuscon in Washington ended with the vehicle bursting into flames in Surrey, British Columbia, on Saturday night.
Emil Abdullah Tunsel, 21, from Irvine, …
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Puneet Bsanti / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Facing dry wells, water restrictions and risks to fish hatcheries and salmon migration, state officials declared a drought emergency Monday for watersheds spanning a dozen Washington counties.
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/26/23
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The Thurston County Sheriff's Office has arrested two people suspected of killing an alleged drug distributor in April near Grand Mound.
The arrests resulted from a three-month investigation …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Four conservation and fishing groups plan a lawsuit over high water temperatures in the Snake River, calling for actions that could include removing the four lower Snake River dams in Eastern …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Why is Washington the epicenter of the fentanyl crisis?
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell posed the question at a Seattle roundtable she convened Monday about the deadly drug, where speakers talked about …
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Nina Shapiro / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/26/23
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A man has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for grooming his girlfriend's 15-year-old daughter and raping her at their residence near Puyallup.
Anthony Charles-Lee Churchill, 32, …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Amazon and workplace safety regulators from the e-commerce giant's home state on Monday kicked off what's expected to be a weekslong trial that may well determine the future of work at Amazon's …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/26/23
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A 26-year-old Olympia woman was arrested on suspicion of second-degree manslaughter over the weekend after a game of Russian Roulette killed a man, according to police.
The victim, 41, died as a …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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7/26/23
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A 49-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of first-degree assault/domestic violence days after he hit his roommate in the face with a machete, according to police.
The man had …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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7/26/23
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The Yakima County coroner said the deaths of two Yakima teens were an accident and suicide.
Coroner Jim Curtice said an autopsy determined a 14-year-old boy died of an accidental gunshot wound …
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Jasper Kenzo Sundeen / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Spots of rain will keep temperatures in the mid-to-high 80s across the state for the next week, slightly dampening the still-high chances for wildfires, state officials said during a media briefing …
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Santiago Ochoa / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Amy Leitman has been a marine surveyor long enough to know a problem when she sees one.
On a cool summer morning in Anacortes, Washington, she realizes that the marina her team is working on is …
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Camilo Fonseca / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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7/26/23
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Two months ago the teen son of a Tri-Cities coach showed up at a police station. What he told investigators led to the arrest of his adoptive parents on felony charges of assault with a deadly …
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Cory McCoy / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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7/26/23
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A Tri-Cities man is facing 38 charges after a dangerous high-speed chase in a stolen police car.
Kennewick police first came into contact with Christoffer Noel Pearson several hours before the …
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Cory McCoy / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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7/26/23
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