Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.
A deadly fish virus has been detected in Washington state waters for the first time, forcing a fish farm to kill its entire stock of Atlantic salmon.
A Washington state man accused of locking his two young autistic sons in a room with a cage-like door says he heard on a television show that it's OK to do so for their own safety.
Pullman fire investigators are calling suspicious a fire that destroyed a building on the Washington State University campus in Pullman early Saturday.
A Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman says a man, a woman and a dog were rescued from a sinking sailboat near Mukilteo, Wash.
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The Washington State Patrol has arrested a 38-year-old Everett man accused of threatening to kill Gov. Chris Gregoire.
Police say a 45-year-old Kent, Wash., woman fatally stabbed a 42-year-old man as they drove through the south Seattle suburb.
A Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldier died in Afghanistan Thursday, the fourth JBLM soldier to die there since May 18.
After losing a ninth-inning lead and the game to the Los Angeles Angels last night, manager Eric Wedge decided this morning the Seattle Mariners would ‘pull back’ closer Brandon League and attempt to finish games off with other pitchers.
The state Department of Health took the following actions regarding Pierce County health care providers in April, according to a news release.
Plenty to do if you're hanging around town this weekend.
The state Transportation Department has reopened Chinook Pass on Highway 410 on the east side of Mount Rainier.
Police are looking for the ex-boyfriend of a 17-year-old girl found dead in a Renton home that had been set on fire.
A woman who was riding with Joshua Blake when he killed a Washington State Patrol trooper has been convicted in Port Orchard of rendering criminal assistance.
There will be numerous Memorial Day observances around the South Sound on Monday to honor those who gave their lives in service to the nation.
Pierce County prosecutors have charged four young adults with punching and kicking two citizens during robberies in Tillicum earlier this week.
Firefighters who put out a fire Friday morning at a Renton home found the body of a teenage girl inside.
Tacoma police have arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of stabbing and critically injuring another man last week at a Hilltop grocery store.
A driver suffered minor injuries this morning when the back end of his flatbed truck was struck by a train in Puyallup.
The good news for your Memorial Day Weekend escape: The weather is looking nice, at least for Friday and Saturday. The bad news: Whether you are traveling by plane, train or automobile (or ferry), you can expect crowds – and high gas prices if you’re filling a tank.
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A 49-year-old Olympia-area woman was critically injured overnight when a gun her son was handling accidentally discharged.
A junior Army officer from Joint Base Lewis-McChord was killed in combat Wednesday shortly after his arrival in Afghanistan, the U.S. military announced.
The National Weather Service says the Memorial Day weekend is beginning sunny in Western Washington and windy in Eastern Washington.
Police in Centralia, Wash., say they've arrested a 25-year-old man in the death of a 2-year-old girl.
The Thurston County sheriff's office says the car taken in a Rochester home invasion early Friday was found later in the morning.
The Third of July fireworks display in Lacey is set to continue this year despite losing its major sponsor and location.
Two pedestrians – one in Olympia, the other in Lacey – were struck by cars between 4 and 5 p.m. Thursday.
The man fatally shot by a stray bullet while he and his family drove down a Seattle street was a software developer at a number of Seattle high tech companies, including Zillow, Microsoft and Expedia.
You may need to rethink those bratwursts you were planning to grill this holiday weekend.
A Spokane woman claims she was held captive and sold for sex at meth houses and motels for the past year.
Two Pierce County education administrators and a third candidate from Minnesota are the finalists in the search for a new president to lead Bates Technical College.
A man who was convicted of molesting a child in Walla Walla County in 1995 and who has been held nearly two years at the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island will be released Friday.
The search for a 9-year-old boy missing in Yelm has ended, and the child has been found at a neighbor's house.
The value of your home may be a stronger predictor of your weight than the genes inherited from your ancestors, a new public health study from the University of Washington has found.
Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash - sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist - and then asking the government for replacement cards.
Just like any food bank of its kind, the Sumner Food Bank is facing more demand on its community services.
Same-sex marriage opponents are nearing the number of signatures they need to put a referendum on the November ballot to overturn the Legislature’s marriage law.
The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.
Digital media provider RealNetworks will pay a $2.4 million settlement because of free trial subscriptions that resulted in unwanted monthly charges to customers, Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna announced.
A lawyer and a citizen have each filed ethics complaints against Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna.
The Port Angeles School Board is banning classroom pets because of concerns that dogs, rabbits, snakes and baby chicks threaten student health and safety.
A judge has ordered the people who tried to ransom a bulldog in Woodland to pay $2,700 in restitution.
Gov. Chris Gregoire and Washington Transportation Department Secretary Paul Hammond issued statements Wednesday reminding the contractor on a new Lake Washington floating bridge not to let office workers drink beer on the job.
King County prosecutors have filed a second-degree murder charge against a 26-year-old man sought in the May 16 shooting death of another man outside a south Seattle fast-food restaurant.
The Adams County sheriff's office is investigating a report that a school principal in a small Eastern Washington town briefly sat on a 14-year-old boy as punishment.
A 15-year-old girl told King County sheriff's deputies she was attacked by two men about 8 p.m. Wednesday while walking on the Lake Wilderness Trail near Maple Valley.
Seattle police are looking for five more people shown in video of violence during May Day demonstrations.
Tacoma police are searching for three men who held members of a family at gunpoint and ransacked their Northeast Tacoma home overnight.
A law aimed at curbing underage drinking in the City of Rainier takes effect June 21.
Police are investigating the reported assault of a middle school-aged girl walking home from school Tuesday afternoon.
Harvard University alumni attending their 50th class reunion this week are getting updates on classmates, but one person stands out among those sharing news about career moves, retirements and grandkids - Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
A study has found that Seattle's SoDo neighborhood can handle the traffic that may come from building a third sports arena in the area.
European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.
After making seven errors in an 10-run loss on Tuesday, the Rainiers needed a bounce-back performance today at Principal Park in Iowa.
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has quantified the painful price that must be paid for the missteps of her predecessors as she tries to turn around the Silicon Valley pioneer. The bungling will wipe out 27,000 jobs so HP can save enough money to lift its earnings and invest in the development of more profitable products and service.
Gas prices appear to heading downward in the Tacoma area after a long run-up that began just after Christmas.
A 52-year-old Lakebay man who died Monday morning after hitting another car head-on on the Purdy Spit suffered a catastrophic medical condition.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the license for the Northwest's only commercial nuclear power plant by an additional 20 years, the plant's operator announced Wednesday.
Three weeks before graduation, an 18-year-old Cascade Christian High School senior was seriously injured in a car accident last week near Lake Tapps.
You’re thirsty for an icy treat and don’t want to pay a penny. Well, 7-Eleven can sate that desire today.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna wants Washington state to join 48 others in requiring proof of legal residency to get a driver's license. Democratic rival Jay Inslee isn't so sure.
The famous Heronswood Gardens at Kingston in Kitsap County is being sold at auction.
City Manager T.C. Broadnax announced Tuesday he’ll take Tacoma’s 2013-14 general fund budget planning out of City Hall next month and into its neighborhoods, where he’ll seek to “demystify” the process and gather input about city spending priorities from the public.
A 21-year-old Tacoma woman who was hit by a car early Sunday while walking on the Yelm Highway has died.
Bieber fever will hit Tacoma this fall.
A Seattle School District investigation has cleared an elementary school principal who asked students to demonstrate how a boy inappropriately touched himself.
An oceanographer who tracks flotsam says West Coast beachcombers may find floating athletic shoes with human bones as more debris from the Japanese tsunami washes ashore.
A 38-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting a Tacoma woman nearly a decade ago was arraigned in the case Tuesday.
First responders from several agencies will be taking part in a catastrophic training drill today on the Tacoma Narrows bridges.
The chief of staff for the League of Education Voters filed a measure today that would ask voters this November to allow up to 40 charter schools in Washington — if supporters can accumulate 241,153 signatures by July 6 to get it on the ballot.
Puyallup’s five-story City Hall that overlooks the library and Pioneer Park downtown won’t become home to the city’s police department or municipal court.
If you're a red-tailed hawk chick hatched in a nest near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, chances are you're going to be sent away to school.
A Lynnwood, Wash.-area man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing his wife with multiple gunshots on April 15, 2011.
Advance tickets are now available for the June 2-3 grand opening weekend at LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM). Museum-goers who want to join the celebration of the Northwest’s newest destination and don’t want to wait in line can go to https://www.lemaymuseum.org/museumtickets/.
A section of Interstate 90 in Snoqualmie Pass is closed for rock blasting, according to the state Department of Transportation.
Renton police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who may have tried to lure a 12-year-old girl to his truck this morning while she walked to school.
Gov. Chris Gregoire is headed to Washington, D.C., to urge key senators to stop proposed cuts next year to the Air National Guard.
Federal prosecutors today charged six people – three of them from Tacoma and one from Auburn – with collecting thousands in unemployment while they held down jobs.
Fife police have arrested two people suspected of stealing the identities of more than 40 people.
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will make a rare U.S. appearance in June at a Seattle science festival.
Prosecutors charged a Washington state police officer Tuesday in the accidental death of his 7-year-old daughter, saying it was unconscionable for him to leave his loaded handgun loose in the family van, where the girl's younger brother grabbed it and shot her.
Troopers have arrested a state social worker on suspicion of using a former client’s food stamps to buy food.
Washington is once again the most bicycle friendly state in the country according to the League of American Bicyclists. It’s the fifth year in a row Washington has received the distinction.
South Sound unemployment rates fell sharply in April, perhaps a sign that seasonal employment for spring and summer finally is under way.
Eatonville’s mayor fired the town clerk last week and also demoted the police chief in a separate action.
Police have identified a suspect and released an additional detail about a fatal shooting last Wednesday outside a south Seattle fast-food restaurant.
Republican Sen. Cheryl Pflug is moving on to a new job, leaving an open seat that will help determine control of the state Senate.
Officials diverted a US Airways jet to Maine after a French passenger traveling from Paris to North Carolina handed a note to a flight attendant mentioning that she had a surgically implanted device, prompting concerns about possible terrorism.
The trial is beginning Tuesday in Port Orchard for a woman charged with rendering criminal assistance in the shooting death of Washington State Patrol Trooper Tony Radulescu (rad-ihl-EHS'-kyoo).
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna says Washington will need to ask voters to support a tax package to fund the state's multi-billion dollar transportation needs, but his Democratic counterpart, Jay Inslee, isn't ready to support any specific financing plan.
A Thurston County sheriff’s deputy arrested a 30-year-old Lacey man on suspicion of driving under the influence and eluding a police vehicle on state Route 507 in McKenna after a chase that reached speeds of up to 86 mph, court papers state.
Police say a resident of a north Spokane home drove off four home invaders with a decorative sword, giving one a slash wound.
Tacoma police have released a surveillance image of a man suspected of robbing a convenience store at gunpoint last week.
Homicide detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a man Monday night at a north Seattle apartment.
The state Transportation Department has torpedoed a proposal for floating billboards on Lake Washington in Seattle.
A 22-year-old mother and her boyfriend are facing criminal charges after they allegedly left her 3-year-old son sleeping in a Fife motel room for several hours so they could gamble.
The Seattle Seahawks confirmed this evening that the team has consummated a trade for Tampa Bay tight end Kellen Winslow Jr.
A Thurston County Superior Court judge has set bail at $500,000 for a 23-year-old woman accused of stabbing her mother repeatedly as she slept at a home in Rochester, Wash.
A former Copalis Beach, Wash., woman accused of stealing more than $50,000 while she worked in the Quinault Indian Nation's finance department has been convicted of 20 counts of embezzlement of tribal funds.
A 13-year-old boy rescued at the top of a 270-foot waterfall in Washington state says he just wanted to cool off, but soon found himself stuck precariously on a rock for hours as crews tried to reach him.
A man who survived a plunge of at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls - only the third person known to have done so without a safety device - was in stable condition Tuesday, a day after his apparent suicide attempt that led to a dramatic and painstaking rescue.
About seven people were injured this afternoon in a six-car pileup in Puyallup, according to Central Pierce Fire & Rescue.
Two red wolf pups recently born at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium have died and a third is being treated for a leg injury.
Two Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers have died in combat in Afghanistan. Sgt. Michael J. Knapp and Sgt. Jabraun S. Knox were mortally wounded Friday when enemy forces attacked their unit with indirect fire in Asadabad.
At the Washington Education Association’s weekend convention, Secretary of State candidate Kim Wyman became the first Republican statewide candidate to get the teacher’s union’s endorsement this year.
The Associated Press is reporting that at least three people died attempting to summit Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, over the weekend. A Central Washington University professor was reportedly near the summit and supplied help to some climbers.
Whitney Houston's final recording is being released.
The daughter-in-law of Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman has been dismissed as a volunteer track coach at a small Eastern Oregon high school because she escorted a 17-year-old boy to the prom.
A California lettuce grower has expanded a recall of some bagged salads after routine sampling detected listeria contamination. No illnesses have been reported.
Hospitals across Washington will be taking part in a new program aimed at reducing the number of Medicare patients who repeatedly use emergency rooms for non-emergency visits.
When Ryan Sutherland wanted to go to college three years ago, his father, Steve, went with him. Not just for a visit, but to stay. The father and son, from Cashmere, have been dorm roommates at Whitworth University in Spokane since Ryan started there in 2009.
Using a fax machine and letterhead from the King County Council in April 2002, the office of then-Councilman Rob McKenna sent off an invitation to the U.S. secretary of the interior.
Wildfires weren't a problem in the rain, but Gov. Chris Gregoire, Washington Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark and other officials demonstrated Monday they're fit enough to visit fire lines when wildfires do break out.
Tacoma police are searching for a 25-year-old man suspected of shooting another man during an argument earlier this month at an East Side home.
A 23-year-old woman wanted for allegedly stabbing her mother in Rochester was arrested Sunday evening after an hours-long search found her trying to flee an abandoned home, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.
The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $4.24.
A stretch of relatively warm, dry weather came to an end over the weekend, and forecasters say the cold front will deliver a significant amount of rain Monday in Western Washington.
Tacoma police are searching for a man who robbed a pizza delivery driver at gunpoint early today.
The King County sheriff's office says a suspect in last week's fatal shooting in the city of Shoreline turned himself in.
A 59-year-old diver is missing and presumed dead after running out of air while spearfishing.
With his carefully tended hair, tight trousers and perfect harmonies, Robin Gibb, along with his brothers Maurice and Barry, defined the disco era. As part of the Bee Gees - short for the Brothers Gibb - they created dance floor classics like "Stayin Alive," ''Jive Talkin'," and "Night Fever" that can still get crowds onto a dance floor.
A 43-year-old motorcyclist who died early Saturday after crashing near the intersection of state Routes 167 and 410 near Sumner has been identified as Paul Butler.
Jesus Montero and Justin Smoak hit back-to-back home runs, Blake Beavan tied a season-high with seven strikeouts and the Seattle Mariners held on to beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
A greener approach in Seattle aims to prevent untreated sewage and polluted runoff from flowing into Puget Sound by installing dozens of landscaped drainage systems in front of people's homes.
Demonstrators prepared Monday to launch another day of major protests in Chicago as world leaders met at the NATO summit, while commuters heading into the city found themselves navigating extra security and revised train and bus routes designed to dodge the summit zone.
Olympia native Jesse Stevick won his sixth Capital City Marathon Sunday with a winning time of 2 hours, 35 minutes and 33 seconds to set a new record for most victories at Capital City by a male runner.
Flags snapped, an honor guard fired three volleys and three World War II-era spotting planes flew the missing man formation as the ashes of Gerald "Mike" Kight were laid to rest Saturday afternoon in this cemetery in the Columbia Gorge. After almost 68 years away from home, his ashes joined the remains of a mother who never lost hope he would be found.
A 13-year-old Burien boy is safe after a dramatic overnight rescue above Wallace Falls near Gold Bar.
The Thurston County Sheriff's Office is looking for Amanda Lee Bassell, 23. She is wanted in connection with an early morning stabbing in Rochester.
A judge is expected to decide whether the gunman who killed a sheriff's deputy and five other people during a 2008 spree should be moved from a state psychiatric hospital to prison.
Children's trampolines with a dangerous defect and a line of crib tents that have already proved deadly for one child are among this week's recalled products. Others include defective safety locks meant to keep children out of cabinets and climbing ropes with a dangerous flaw.
A 21-year-old woman was struck and injured early Sunday morning as she walked along Yelm Highway.
Students at Pioneer Middle School in DuPont got a lesson in baking bread from scratch earlier this month, compliments of the Vermont-based King Arthur Flour Co.
Tacoma Fire Department units responded to a pair of fires on Saturday evening, one at a commercial facility at the Port of Tacoma and the other at an East Side residence.
PLU moved past Northwest Conference rival Linfield, 5-3, Saturday in the NCAA Division III championship-bracket semifinals at the Moyer Complex in Salem, Va.
You can't keep Didier Drogba down.
For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C.
A 43-year-old Kent man died in an motorcycle accident early this morning near the intersection of state highways 167 and 410, the State Patrol says.
The Cowlitz County Coroner's office says a 72-year-old man is dead after his tractor tipped while he was mowing a lawn.
Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where President Barack Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet.
A watchful eye has arrived on San Francisco's bar scene, but not to keep you in check. It just wants to check you out.
The only commercial nuclear power plant in the Northwest is hosting an event Thursday to mark the extension of the plant's operating license.
A trial opens Tuesday for a Washington state man accused of killing a beauty school classmate, in a case that shook a farm city that bills itself as the "Apple Capital of the World."
Fun events happening this weekend:
A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United States on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong diplomatic tussle that had tested U.S.-China relations.
Judging by his appetite and appearance, Bodemeister has rebounded nicely from his vigorous trip in the Kentucky Derby and is ready to shine at the Preakness.
A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.
Head GOP budget writer will retire
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