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Charged particles and magnetic fields produced by an eruption on the sun hit Earth early Sunday morning, creating a light show in the sky sooner than expected.
On Saturday, the National Oceanic …
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Lizzy Acker / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/2/25
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Officials think they know what killed a massive sperm whale that washed ashore about 12 miles north of Seaside on the Oregon coast.
According to a press release from the Seaside Aquarium, the …
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Lizzy Acker / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/2/25
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Salem police say 11 people were taken to the hospital Sunday night following reports of “multiple stabbing victims” at a men’s homeless shelter.
Police received reports of the …
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Sami Edge / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/2/25
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The ink is hardly dry on Washington’s new budget and already legislative leaders are anticipating more fiscal uncertainty.
Democrats are focused on threats to health care access if …
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By Paul W. Taylor / TVW
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6/2/25
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Frank Chopp, a citizen activist who became the state of Washington’s longest-serving House speaker, spent a half-century relentlessly agitating for social change.
It seemed fitting then …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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6/2/25
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Washington is showing promise in its work to combat the epidemic of drug overdose deaths that has ravaged the state and country in recent years.
In 2024, fatal overdoses in the state dropped …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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6/2/25
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A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington state, …
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By Yereth Rosen / Alaska Beacon
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6/2/25
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Chinese students studying at Washington state colleges and universities could face an uncertain future following this week's announcement that the U.S. will start revoking some of their visas.
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/1/25
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A Lacey family needed to be rescued from a residential fire on Thursday evening when the only exit from their home was blocked by flames.
Lacey Fire District 3 and mutual aid from Olympia Fire …
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Ann Duan / The Olympian (TNS)
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6/1/25
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A commercial truck carrying 70,000 pounds of honey bee hives tipped over early Friday morning, releasing millions of bees in Whatcom County, just west of Lynden.
As odd as the entire incident …
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Daniel Schrager / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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6/1/25
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A 39-year-old King County sheriff's deputy turned himself in to Seattle police Friday afternoon after he was charged with third-degree rape and sexual misconduct with a minor involving a then-teenage …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/1/25
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President Donald Trump sent a message to Washington state officials Friday when he signed an executive order designating nearly the entire state as part of what he called "sanctuary jurisdictions," …
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Thomas Clouse / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/1/25
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A 17-year-old boy who died in a mobile home fire Tuesday morning attended Olympia High School, the principal said in a message to families Friday afternoon.
Niland Woods and his half-sister, …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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6/1/25
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The Trump administration wants to close one of the nation’s two cutting-edge observatories — one of them in the Tri-Cities — that made scientific history and launched a new way to …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/1/25
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WASHINGTON — The most fundamental job of Congress is to fund the government each year, typically through a bipartisan process that distributes dollars more or less evenly between red states and …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/1/25
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TACOMA — Though the jeering follows Verónica Garcia when she races in track events, it hasn't slowed her down.
Garcia, an East Valley High School senior, is again the state champion …
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Elena Perry / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/1/25
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When officers arrived at the scene of the crash, they found Erik Mario Moya screaming in pain.
While trying to determine the man’s injuries, Washington State Trooper Anthony Ziegenfuss …
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Quinton Prudhomme / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/1/25
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Oregon State Police clocked a motorcyclist hitting an eye-popping 152 mph along U.S. 26 outside of Boring on a new Yamaha — a speed so excessive that troopers rarely document anything going …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/1/25
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A Portland man who bludgeoned a stranger to death with a cinder block was found guilty but insane Friday and sentenced to a lifetime of supervision by the state Psychiatric Security Review Board.
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Zane Sparling / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/1/25
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A body found in the Columbia River Friday evening is presumed to be a missing 18-year-old, Vancouver police said in a statement.
Franky Fred was last seen May 23 near Vancouver Lake, and some of …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/1/25
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