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Portland police on Friday arrested 34-year-old Dayla Causey on suspicion of murder in the 2022 death of Portland Uber driver Shaani Mohamed.
Causey is the fourth person charged in the case in …
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Sami Edge / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/18/26
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One man was killed and at least two others were injured in a shooting outside a hookah lounge in Seattle's Chinatown International District early Saturday, Seattle police said.
Police found …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks and Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/18/26
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Amanda Lybeck, 37, is giving up alcohol for all 12 months of 2026. A year ago, the Maple Valley resident completed Dry January — the trend of going sober for one month — for the first time as a …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/18/26
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T Line riders no longer have to take alternative bus transportation next week as railway construction was indefinitely postponed, David Jackson, a spokesperson for Sound Transit, told The News …
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Bonny Matejowsky / The News Tribune (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Portland police said Friday they have arrested a teen in the fatal shooting last October of Andrew “Andy” Nguyen.
Police did not name the suspect in a news release but said the 17-year-old …
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Jonathan Bach / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking the birth of the civil rights leader who was slain in 1968. But Americans who want to spend the day at one of the country's 63 national …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Building on a 2025 Washington law that jacked up fines for littering, a new bill would create a task force focused on curtailing litter statewide, including keeping it out of parks, rest areas, …
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Erick Bengel / Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (TNS)
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1/17/26
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A Renton double-homicide cold case that went unsolved for over three decades finally closed Friday after a 55-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a young mother and her …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Funding for programs that markedly help Washington’s homeless students may become collateral damage under state budget cuts and turmoil in the federal government, advocates say.
The state …
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Ryan Nguyen / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Age verification could soon be required to access websites that host sexual adult content under a new bill in the Legislature heard Friday in the House Consumer Protection and Business Committee.
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Shauna Sowers / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Local public health teams are racing to verify vaccination records with families and students in two Washington counties, hoping to get ahead of the spread of measles amid the state’s first …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Washington and Oregon will not have to build a drawbridge as part of the project to replace the aging Interstate 5 bridges across the Columbia River, the U.S. Coast Guard decided on Friday.
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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1/16/26
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Three Washington state senators said the biting testimony Pierce County’s sheriff delivered during a committee hearing Thursday was threatening to legislators.
Sheriff Keith Swank delivered …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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1/16/26
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A new bill sponsored by state Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Chehalis, would allow workers injured on the job to record independent medical examinations.
Abbarno pre-filed House Bill 2336, which would …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/16/26
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OLYMPIA — Two weeks after the state increased the fee for reusable plastic bags, lawmakers are considering competing legislation that would either reduce the fee and reintroduce thinner, single-use …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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1/16/26
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The Trump administration told mental health and addiction service organizations late Tuesday night that it would cut nearly $2 billion in funding, axing grants nationwide from the U.S. Substance …
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Jayati Ramakrishnan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/16/26
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OLYMPIA — State lawmakers are pushing to conceal their home addresses in a vast swath of public records, citing a climate of increased violence and threats against public officials.
But the …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/16/26
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A 49-year-old man who previously talked publicly about being an activist was sentenced to over 46 years in prison for raping two Seattle women while they were incapacitated and filming them, as well …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/16/26
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A Seattle-based law firm is accusing Starbucks of having an unethical supply chain and alleging that its decaffeinated coffee contains harmful chemicals.
Hagens Berman filed the proposed …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/16/26
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A new Washington state hotline is helping connect people dealing with drug addiction to local treatment options.
The Washington Telebuprenorphine (Telebupe) Hotline launched as a pilot program …
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Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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1/16/26
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