Washington

From 1975: Changes were on the way in college football. The Big Ten had just moved to break its “exclusivity contract” with the Rose Bowl.

A fluctuating crowd of roughly 50 to 100 demonstrators gathered for more than eight hours Tuesday outside the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building in downtown Seattle in support of immigrants and to show solidarity with protesters in Los Angeles. Following a morning rally, protesters barricaded driveways with e-bikes and e-scooters to block Department of Homeland Security vehicles thought to be transporting detained immigrants from exiting.

SEATTLE – Two older women were killed after a shuttle bus hit them in the Yesler Terrace Neighborhood Tuesday morning, Seattle police said.

Washington is “taking a careful look” at where it has standing to challenge President Donald Trump’s recent proclamation restricting travel from 12 countries, Attorney General Nick Brown said during a news conference Tuesday.

Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell announced Tuesday he is resigning next month, ending a decade overseeing the county’s most serious criminal cases in court.

Imagine doing a home remodel and discovering a colony of honey bees that have been nesting there for over 30 years. That’s what happened to Joe Bowers, the owner of Bowers Plumbing and Remodel.

The city of Spokane met all state and federal drinking water standards last year, according to its required 2024 report on drinking water quality measuring levels of contaminants and “forever” chemicals in its source wells.

Patrick Monahan found water on his upstairs bathroom floor. The window was open. It faced the party. 

From 1975: The employment outlook for Kaiser Aluminum’s plants in Spokane were looking bleaker than ever.

Washington has joined 14 other states and the District of Columbia in challenging a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plan to return seized “forced reset triggers,” a device the Washington attorney general’s office says allows novice shooters to “achieve the firepower of a military machine gun.”

Jun. 9—Washington state will get a new secretary of health in less than a month. Dennis Worsham is currently the director of the Snohomish County Health Department, and will bring more than 32 years of public health experience when he steps up to lead the state Department of Health. He begins July 7, and will become the state's third health secretary in six years. "I am honored to serve and ...

It’s that time of year when temperatures start to spike. Without ventilation, the temperature inside your car will rise high and fast. Leaving pets in a hot car can cause heat stroke or death — and no, cracking a window open isn’t enough. In fact, you can be held liable for leaving an animal inside a hot car under Washington state law, which makes it a civil infraction to leave any animal ...

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers return to the Capitol on Monday with less than a month before Republicans’ self-imposed July 4 deadline to pass President Donald Trump’s signature bill, extending tax cuts and increasing spending on immigration enforcement and the military while cutting spending on health care and food assistance.

From 1975: South Vietnamese refugees were referring to Washington Gov. Daniel J. Evans as the “friendliest American.”

Two months after the state Supreme Court overturned Spokane’s voter-approved anti-homeless camping law, the Spokane City Council is set to overhaul its suite of homelessness laws in a way supporters argue simplifies and streamlines the law, but that critics call either toothless or too sharp.

The settlement of Dishman is named for businessman Addison T. Dishman, born in 1865. He moved to the Spokane area in 1887 and ran a livery stable in Spokane with his brother until it was lost in the 1889 fire.

The Department of Social and Health Services is providing just two hours of weekly group treatment for residents of a secure island facility used to detain and rehabilitate people with a history of sex crimes — a fraction of what state officials and national experts consider acceptable and of what was offered just nine months ago.

WASHINGTON – Among the more than 150 executive actions President Donald Trump has taken since assuming office in January are orders that aim to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and commercial fishing in the United States.