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Rep. Jim Walsh has introduced House Bill 2121, a measure to reverse the state sales-tax expansion that is now hitting Washington’s public schools and nonprofits. “The disastrous … more
On Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two major bills for Washington state Tribes, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Project Lands Restoration Act, and the Quinault Indian Nation Land … more
Ruperto Aguayo, convicted of the 2023 death of Longview's Grant Hadler, was sentenced Wednesday to over eight years in state prison. Aguayo’s lawyer, Vancouver-based defense attorney Angus … more
Columbia River navigators are growing worried as a project to put a 100-mile power transmission line under the river charges ahead without offering ways to mitigate its impacts on the industry. … more
The following is the statement Alex Fray read on Dec. 4 in Cowlitz County Superior Court during the sentencing for Daren Bowlby , 59, of Castle Rock. Bowlby also pleaded guilty that day to vehicular … more
WASHINGTON — A public lands advocacy group sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over the inclusion of President Donald Trump’s face on the forthcoming National Park … more
Washington state awaits an answer on its request for federal aid as it deals with unprecedented river flooding from days of heavy rain. There were no known fatalities due to the storms or … more
The Washington State Attorney General’s Office billed more than 11,000 hours of attorney and staff work on lawsuits against the federal government in an eight-month period following the … more
Oregon has reported more cases of whooping cough this year than at any time in state history, and health officials say falling vaccination rates — especially among pregnant people — are … more
A Multnomah County jury convicted a Portland man in a downtown killing with no apparent motive Wednesday after a five-day trial. But jurors acquitted him of all charges in a similar slaying that had … more
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday publicly identified a man who was found dead in the Willamette River near Albany. A kayaker found the body of Jonathan Avery Smith, 34, of … more
Two of Oregon’s oldest nonprofit universities are exploring a merger, which would create the state’s largest independent private university with more than 6,000 students enrolled across … more
It's not often that hundreds of Washington’s orchard owners, farm managers and fruit industry leaders spend much of their annual conference discussing how to grow and harvest fewer crops. … more
Sumner residents are bracing for an influx of flooding from the Puyallup and White Rivers. Carmen Palmer, spokesperson for the City of Sumner, told The News Tribune that the Army Corp of … more
SKAGIT RIVER — As unrelenting rains fell Wednesday morning across Western Washington, with a forecast for much more in the hours ahead, Mount Vernon Mayor Peter Donovan braced for the worst. … more
Three Washington state transportation workers were hurt when a pickup truck veered across Highway 395 and hit them in a work zone in Kennewick on Wednesday. The Washington State Department of … more
On most demographic measures, Seattle usually ranks alongside its peer cities — places like San Francisco, Portland, Washington, D.C., and so on. But here’s a ranking where Seattle finds … more
Heavy rain is reaching high into the mountains and further delaying Washington's ski season from entering full swing. Mission Ridge south of Wenatchee still plans to spin lifts Friday, but the … more
At least 17 people were saved from floodwaters Monday and Tuesday while a powerful atmospheric river drenched Western Washington. Those rescued were found trapped in their trailer homes and … more
River flooding in parts of Western Washington is expected to be “catastrophic,” especially in the coastal lowlands near the Snohomish, Stillaguamish and Skagit rivers, according to a new … more
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