The agency tasked with developing a regulated marijuana system in Washington state has chosen a new director.
State regulators say they have fined a Bellevue gun shop more than $23,000 for exposing workers to lead dust when it remodeled its shooting range last year.
Washington State University researchers who focus on production of hops in the state are turning more of their attention to the final product: beer.
Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will give the high school commencement address in the small town of Republic on June 1.
Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a handful of measures making it easier for certain businesses to serve alcohol.
Authorities are investigating a second staff member at the Airway Heights prison for alleged sexual misconduct with an inmate.
A jury in Everett is deliberating whether to impose the death penalty on a Washington prison inmate who strangled a corrections officer.
A judge has ruled that a former worker convicted of time card fraud at the Hanford nuclear reservation will not receive any money from a government settlement.
Some Washington residents may see lower insurance premiums under President Barack Obama's health care law, with proposed plans released Tuesday countering concerns expressed by the insurance industry just a year ago.
A Senate committee on Tuesday advanced a bill to make changes to the state's impaired driving laws, including making driving under the influence a felony on the fourth conviction, rather than the current law that has it at five within 10 years.
The state of Washington could pay as much as $475,000 for an outside study of three Transportation Department megaprojects - the Highway 520 floating bridge on Lake Washington, the Highway 99 tunnel under downtown Seattle, and an Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River.
A Lewis County deputy prosecutor says rape charges may have to be dismissed because the victim suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and her doctor says testifying could trigger another heart attack.
A Western Washington University teaching assistant is accused of shooting another man in Bellingham.
Pullman police on Tuesday recommended that charges be filed against five people in a case in which a Washington State University instructor was left gravely injured following a fight.
A Seattle police officer was bitten while arresting a man who threatened passengers with a knife on a state ferry from Bremerton.
The Washington State Patrol says a Yakima man who died in a crash into a home near Terrace Heights Monday afternoon apparently left the road because of a heart attack.
Police have completed their investigation into a shooting in Spokane where the owner of a car killed a suspected thief as he drove away.
Police say two pedestrians suffered minor injuries when they were hit by a car Monday evening in downtown Spokane.
Justices on the Washington Supreme Court are considering whether the state should have to pay a $100 million verdict awarded to some 22,000 home care workers who were shortchanged by a rule that was in effect from 2003 to 2007.
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Investigators say a 26-year-old Covington man beat a teenage boy to death and has been ordered held on a $1 million bail.
Adams County authorities say they have arrested two men in connection to a drive-by shooting that left a 4-year-old child with a bullet fragment in his head.
Damage is estimated at $300,000 at a subdivision near Port Angeles where a man destroyed three houses with a bulldozer, damaged another home and crushed two sheds, a pickup truck, lawn mower, fences and other property in a dispute with a neighbor.
Police received a call over the weekend that a man was dragging a heavily intoxicated woman under a bridge in Aberdeen.
Suicide stalks Indian Country, claiming more lives of native youth than those in any other population, not only in Washington, but nationally.
A drive-in theater at Shelton has been saved by $40,000 in online donations through the Kickstarter website.
Swetha Shutthanandan said she's always been interested in how she could save the world.
Pierce County plans to ask other local governments and public agencies to help cover the cost of security for the U.S. Open in June 2015 at Chambers Bay Golf Course.
Some big decisions that could help decide the future of Spokane's Fairchild Air Force Base are expected soon.
The same jury that convicted a Monroe Reformatory inmate of aggravated murder for strangling a prison guard started work Monday in Everett on the penalty stage of the trial to determine whether Byron Scherf will be executed.
A woman who was pulled from her burning apartment in Vancouver has died at a Portland hospital.
The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $3.91.
The National Weather Service says thunderstorms are possible in Eastern Washington Monday afternoon as a cold front sweeps through the Inland Northwest.
Police and Spokane County sheriff's deputies are investigating a stabbing in Airway Heights.
The King County sheriff's office says a woman stabbed an intruder to death early Monday at a North Bend home.
A stolen pickup chase ended in Everett where the truck knocked a car into a natural gas line that caught fire.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has narrowed his list of top priorities for lawmakers to address in a special session, saying Monday that the Legislature must focus on the operating budget, a transportation-funding package and new legislation to crack down on drunken drivers.
The court-martial trial for Army Sgt. John Russell has concluded. Now a military judge will decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in Iraq. Or he may decide Russell was taking revenge against psychiatrists who had blocked his hoped-for early exit from the Army.
A University of Washington student-led group says if the state doesn't give the school money to give their teachers a raise after four years of frozen salaries, they're willing to pay higher tuition to cover the cost.
Six inmates, each shackled and chained to a chair, face the front of a room at the Washington State Penitentiary as two instructors guide them through conversations about managing anger and avoiding confrontation.
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