|
The state Attorney General's office is seeking to require Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer to post bail of $10,000 as a condition of continued release pending his upcoming trial on charges of false …
more
Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
|
6/18/22
|
|
A labor contractor based in Adams County denied 165 farm laborers more than $83,000 collectively in overtime pay for cleaning the Gorge Amphitheater, according to a U.S. Department of Labor …
more
Daisy Zavala Magaña / The Seattle Times
|
6/18/22
|
|
Snohomish County officials have identified the remains of an anonymous male and female in two separate cases as a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and a woman who went missing from a cabin in …
more
Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times
|
6/18/22
|
|
LOS ANGELES — A mountain lion was struck and killed by a vehicle Friday in the Santa Monica Mountains, not far from where her mother was killed in a 2018 crash, the National Park Service said.
…
more
Christian Martinez / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
|
6/18/22
|
|
Throughout the entire Cold War and in the decades since, Russia was a stable supplier of gas to Europe. That changed this week.
Russia slashed gas supplies in apparent retaliation over …
more
Isis Almeida, Anna Shiryaevskaya and Elena Mazneva / Bloomberg News (TNS)
|
6/18/22
|
|
LOS ANGELES — The rookie and his training officer knocked on the door of an El Monte motel room, where they’d been called to investigate a report of domestic violence.
Once they got …
more
Alene Tchekmedyian, Richard Winton and Libor Jany / Los Angeles Times / (TNS)
|
6/18/22
|
|
Kitsap County judges disallowed DUI evidence from a machine manufactured by Dräger Inc. because it did not meet state admissibility rules. Dräger breathalyzers are used extensively by state …
more
By Lawrence Wilson / The Center Square
|
6/18/22
|
|
The Lummi Nation received a $200,000 grant from the Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development to help fund documenting and revitalizing its Native language and combat a decline in its …
more
David Rasbach / The Bellingham Herald
|
6/18/22
|
|
COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months could soon be authorized for emergency use, according to the Washington state Department of Health.
In a Thursday news release, the DOH listed …
more
Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
|
6/18/22
|
|
A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing the death of an Olympia teen who overdosed on narcotics.
Thurston County Superior Court Judge Indu Thomas sentenced …
more
Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
|
6/18/22
|
|
|
Two organizations whose members pose as children to catch suspected child predators helped Tacoma police arrest a registered sex offender from Adams County this week, officials say.
Workers with …
more
Jared Brown / The News Tribune
|
6/18/22
|
|
Gov. Jay Inslee and leaders of both parties in the Washington Legislature are calling on longtime Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to resign, after he fired a top aide who had complained that …
more
David Gutman / The Seattle Times
|
6/17/22
|
|
The Washington Attorney General's office has declined to appeal a judge's ruling that bans Navy SEAL or other military training in Washington state parks.
This appears to mark the demise of a …
more
Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
|
6/17/22
|
|
Initiative 1929, an effort by some of Washington's wealthier residents to repeal the capital gains tax passed by the legislature in 2021, has come to an end. Organizers, which included venture …
more
Shari Phiel / The Columbian
|
6/17/22
|
|
After a wobble in the moon's orbit resulted in historic low tides in Olympia this week, the Puget Sound Estuarium is emphasizing the importance of safe beach etiquette to protect the Puget Sound's …
more
Cayli Yanagida / The Olympian
|
6/17/22
|
|
The first confirmed case of avian flu in a mammal in Washington state was detected in a baby raccoon at Sacajawea Historical State Park in Pasco, Washington.
This is the first case of avian flu …
more
Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
|
6/17/22
|
|
Two subjects who were charged for drug trafficking-related offenses in Lewis County Superior Court earlier this week were remanded into federal custody on Friday.
David A. Berryhill, 47, of …
more
By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
|
6/17/22
|
|
Bail has been set at $500,000 for a Seattle sex offender accused of sexually assaulting a child in Morton for several years.
The victim was 10 years old when the abuse was reported to the …
more
By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
|
6/17/22
|
|
Where many groups of elementary school students in their last day assembly might be itching to get out and enjoy summer break, the Tiny Tigers at Fords Prairie Elementary School in Centralia on …
more
By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
|
6/17/22
|
|
A bipartisan group of state senators announced on Thursday they are calling for Washington state Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler to resign after he allegedly fired a whistleblower who came …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
6/17/22
|
