Washington

Fishing for salmon and all game fish is closing Oct. 24 in many rivers and tributary streams across Washington's Coastal Region due to low water conditions from the ongoing drought as well as

The Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that they arrested the founder of the Whatcom County-based nonprofit Pittie Project PNW who was recently charged with 30 counts of animal cruelty. WCSO seized about 30 dogs in “extremely poor condition” without apparent access to adequate food or water from a property in unincorporated Whatcom County on Oct. 5. Ashley Nichole Georgia, 38, of Lynden was the dogs’ sole caretaker. She had received donated dog food and thousands of dollars in dona

YAKIMA, Wash. – A woman is facing numerous possible charges after allegedly chasing down a Yakima County Sheriff’s Office patrol car and ramming it several times on Friday morning, severely damaging the patrol car and injuring the deputy inside.

The Washington state agency that oversees railroad safety said it was aware of safety concerns about a Puyallup rail crossing years before a 59-year-old man in an electric wheelchair was struck and killed by a train there. The Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) received two complaints about the crossing surface at the North Meridian intersection “being rough to travel” before Richard Geiger was hit on the tracks by a freight train Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson t

Nearly a mile beneath the Pacific Ocean, roughly 300 miles off the Oregon coast, a 3-ton power plant sitting atop an active underwater volcano generated more electricity than it consumed for 8.7 seconds last month. The company behind it, Seattle-based Endurance Energy, says the brief run marks the first time anyone has drilled a subsea geothermal well and used it to produce net-positive power on the seafloor.

Here is what the forecasters at the National Weather Service expect for Eastern WA, OR, and Northern CA. This covers December 2026 through February 2027.

The next generation of Washington apple pickers may have robotic arms and vacuum-powered fingers. The big picture: Facing labor shortages and rising costs , some Washington fruit growers could soon be turning to artificial intelligence and robotics to keep their farms going. Driving the news: Agricultural technology venture Reservoir announced plans Tuesday to open a farm-based robot testing operation in the Yakima Valley next spring, working with local agricultural and economic development grou

A 21-year-old Porsche driver had one question for a Washington sheriff’s deputy after a police chase ended with spike strips: Was there anything he could do to get his car back? The deputy’s answer was ... Read more

A new steak restaurant from Beecher’s Handmade Cheese founder Kurt Dammeier offers customers a place to eat, but nowhere to sit. Yukon, which Dammeier launched with his son, Liam, opened Oct. 19 in Redmond’s Rail District building. The 1,500-square-foot restaurant has five tables and no chairs, a design meant to encourage customers to stand, eat, and socialize, according to The Puget Sound Business Journal.

More rain could fall on the drought-stricken Horse Heaven Hills south of the Tri-Cities, helping dry-land wheat and other farmers, under a project being proposed by a cloud seeding company. Rainmaker Technology Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., discussed its technology and its interest in bringing cloud seeding projects to Washington state at a workshop of the Benton County Commission on Wednesday. It is proposing a possible cloud seeding project in Benton County as a pilot project for Washington aft