English entertainer and former Monty Python member Eric Idle delivered the commencement speech Sunday at Whitman College in Walla Walla where his daughter Lily was among the 375 graduates.
Forecasters say Washington is in for a change in weather to a cool, wet spell that is expected to last the rest of the week.
The Washington State Patrol says a 13-year-old boy riding a dirt bike ran a stop sign and collided with a pickup truck and trailer on Highway 174 Sunday afternoon about a mile west of Wilbur in Lincoln County.
Police say two groups exchanged shots across a south Seattle street Sunday night just before midnight, wounding a woman in the leg.
The FBI has dropped a wall of secrecy around its investigation into the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin in Spokane.
A new report from the state Department of Revenue shows that online commerce is a big boon for the Whatcom County towns of Blaine and Sumas on the Canadian border.
Seattle police say an intoxicated woman crashed into a cruiser being driven by an officer on patrol, then took off.
Real estate agent Joseph Ho climbed the gilded staircase of a Hunts Point mansion listed for almost $5?million, shooting video on his iPad and narrating in Chinese.
A Vancouver, Wash.-based organization dedicated to preserving land near the Columbia River has opened a new office in Hood River, Ore., in an effort to raise its profile.
Police are investigating a hit-and-run that left a man dead in Seattle.
The main transit organization in Snohomish County is declining to run advertisements from a statewide gun control group on public buses.
Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets.
SEATTLE (AP) - Winners of the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest were announced Saturday night. The annual contest is held by Region 10 of SPJ to honor journalism in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.
SEATTLE (AP) - Winners of the 2012 Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism contest were announced Saturday night. The annual contest is held by Region 10 of SPJ to honor journalism in Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana.
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When he was 14 years old, Daniel Cords told his parents he was gay.
"What will you pick?" the new slogan asks.
One man has died and a woman is in the hospital after their boat capsized in Tulalip Bay north of Everett.
A Thurston County jury has awarded $75,000 to a woman bit by a neighbor's dog.
A former Lakewood police officer previously convicted for stealing from a fund to benefit the families of four officers shot in 2009 has pleaded guilty to more charges related to that case.
An Arlington area woman has been arrested for investigation of vehicular assault after her boyfriend was run over by an SUV.
A 25-year-old Vancouver, Wash., man has pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit vehicle airbags.
Coast Guard officials say a woman was rescued Friday night from Tulalip Bay near Everett, Wash., but a man who was with her is missing.
A McCleary, Wash., man has been sentenced to 26 years in prison for a 2012 attack on a judge and a deputy sheriff in the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Montesano.
Everett, Wash., police say they've captured a home intruder who held them at bay for nearly eight hours after claiming to have a grenade.
Spokane police detectives say a man suspected in a fatal shooting refused to obey officers' commands and moved his hand toward his waistband. Police shot and killed the man.
The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:
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Snohomish County, Wash., sheriff's officers have arrested a 22-year-old man after a pursuit that included a car chase, a foot chase, a climb up a tree and a few blasts from a fire hose.
Little Harley Gulliksen has gone home after five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Vancouver, Wash., hospital.
Authorities say two Spokane-area law enforcement officers have been placed on leave after being accused of misconduct in separate cases.
Three nonprofit groups will benefit from sales of new Seahawks and Sounders FC license plates that will be available starting in January.
The Washington State Department of Ecology says red algae blooms currently in the Puget Sound are harmless to people.
Seattle City Councilman Tim Burgess is dropping out of the mayor's race.
Saturday is the 33rd anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens that killed 57 people, knocked down a forest and filled the sky and rivers with volcanic ash.
As lawmakers wrap up their first week of a special legislative session, Senate majority leaders have asked that more than 30 bills be considered as part of the budget discussions.
An inmate who collapsed at the Cowlitz County Jail died Thursday at a Vancouver hospital.
Byron Scherf was sentenced to death for killing a corrections officer at the Washington State Reformatory, but he will face the same security measures as the other eight death row inmates at the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, a Department of Corrections spokesman said.
Little Harley Gulliksen has gone home after five months in the neonatal intensive care unit at a Vancouver hospital.
Washington's boating under the influence law becomes tougher under a law signed Thursday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
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