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A new audit revealed that the King County Department of Community and Human Services' fiscal oversight failures have resulted in potential fraud.
The King County Auditor’s Office latest …
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Spencer Pauley / The Center Square
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8/29/25
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A Thurston County Superior Court judge has rejected a motion by the Washington State Department of Transportation, represented by Pacifica Law Group, Attorney General Nick Brown’s former law …
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TJ Martinell | The Center Square
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8/29/25
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The closure of a bridge connecting eastern King and Pierce counties is dealing a blow to businesses in the area and adding lots of time to commutes.
But the White River Bridge could reopen to …
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Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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8/29/25
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A controversial, court-ordered redrawing of Washington’s political maps has survived another round in a lengthy legal fight.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week …
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Jerry Cornfield / Washington State Standard
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8/29/25
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Jennifer Duarte was still reeling from the wildfire that destroyed her family’s home in Rowena when she received a rare piece of good news.
The state of Oregon would handle the clean up of …
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Fedor Zarkhin / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/29/25
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State attorneys are preparing to pay $6 million to the families of two women who were killed by a man released from custody with an ankle monitor that had been set up to fail.
The deaths of …
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Zane Sparling / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/29/25
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TriMet surveillance footage captured the moment a 40-year-old Portland man, Joseph Naes, used a slingshot to fire a 6-inch-long dart at another man on a MAX platform on June 17, 2024, according to a …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/29/25
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Federal immigration officials in Washington state arrived on the scene of the largest wildfire in the state on Wednesday and arrested two firefighters who had been working to contain the blaze.
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By Alex Brown / Stateline.org
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8/29/25
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A Woodinville man and woman were found dead Wednesday in what the Snohomish County sheriff's office believes to be a murder-suicide.
Deputies were conducting a welfare check at a residence in …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/29/25
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Microsoft on Thursday fired another two employees who participated in a sit-in in President Brad Smith’s office, part of an activist organization's effort to pressure the company to cut ties …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/29/25
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The two firefighters arrested at the Bear Gulch fire had entered the U.S. illegally, according to a news release Thursday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The statement is the first time …
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Isabella Breda and Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/29/25
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Washington’s construction industry, still struggling with high building costs and slow market dynamics, is now facing labor shortages as the federal government ramps up immigration enforcement, …
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Alexis Weisend / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/29/25
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Elian's heart sank when he answered a call last week from the Tacoma immigrant detention center and heard his cousin, Hector, say he was confused, thirsty and afraid.
Hector, 21, is nearly deaf, …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/29/25
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Anne Marie Baker, the 57-year-old Centralia woman accused of embezzling $1.4 million from a former employer over a seven-year period, pleaded not guilty to all 25 counts of felony theft in Lewis …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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8/28/25
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The state Department of Licensing revoked Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to a data search system Wednesday after discovering the federal agency used it to get information about a Kirkland …
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By Nina Shapiro / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/28/25
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Conditions at the state’s largest juvenile prison — where young people have been locked in cells for hours and left to urinate in plastic bottles — violate state law, the Washington …
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By Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/28/25
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A Puyallup father is accused of leaving his 4-year-old daughter on the side of the highway in Pierce County.
Prosecutors the 34-year-old man with second-degree abandonment of a dependent person.
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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8/28/25
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The Trump administration is moving forward with rescinding a two-decade-old rule that protects wild areas in national forests across the country, including nearly 2 million acres in Oregon, a move …
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/28/25
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A judge on Wednesday found a 28-year-old man guilty except for insanity for fatally stabbing a man who was urinating on a retaining wall in front of the Portland Art Museum in 2023.
Multnomah …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/28/25
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Daylight saving time for 2025 is beginning to wind down. The clock shift that brought later sunsets in the spring and summer months will end this fall, at 2 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 2.
That’s …
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Joel Odom / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/28/25
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