Washington

The families of two men who died after a tank collapsed at a Longview mill in May are suing the mill's operator, Nippon Dynawave, and Weyerhaeuser, the company that originally built the pulp and paper mill. The families said they want to hold the companies financially accountable and push for...

LYNNWOOD — Residents will have a chance Monday to weigh in on the city’s proposed 2027 regular property tax levy, which city officials say could rise by using previously unused “banked capacity” under state law. Lynnwood’s current regular levy is $8.9 million. It has $2,204,548 in banked capacity, which would bring the maximum levy without a vote to $11,104,548.

The Pacific Northwest has several proposals to expand and improve passenger rail, from making Amtrak Cascades more reliable to building a high-speed rail line between Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia. Oregon and Washington transportation officials are asking the public to weigh in on their plans for the future of...

A Cowlitz County jury found a 67-year-old Woodland man guilty of second-degree murder and unlawful disposal of remains after a four-day trial stemming from the death of his longtime tenant, whose ...

Two years after Parks Tacoma banned him from every park, facility and event the agency runs, North End trail advocate Ben Lackey has received an apology. The agency's interim executive director, Anthony Piasecki, sent Lackey a letter in September acknowledging that the 2024 trespass notice fell short of the agency's own standards — even as the underlying dispute over a long-closed waterfront trail remains unresolved.

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.