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A man escaped from Washington State Department of Corrections custody while being transported through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Tuesday evening, the agency said.

A legislative audit found that Idaho State University likely misused funds intended for a never-realized forensic pathology center in Pocatello.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday refused to give the operator of the immigrant detention center in Tacoma another chance to make its case for paying detainees as little as $1 per day.

The number of Washingtonians licensed to carry concealed pistols is climbing rapidly in the face of a new state law that will require prospective gun owners to secure a state permit before purchasing a firearm.

Teenagers and young adults from Klamath Basin tribes in south-central Oregon and Northern California earned international applause this summer paddling neon-colored kayaks 310 miles on the newly free-flowing Klamath River.

Palestinians in Gaza on Monday mourned the deaths of four Al Jazeera journalists killed in an Israeli strike the night before. In Gaza City, crowds carried the bodies of correspondent Anas al-Sharif and his colleagues, who for many across the Arabic-speaking world were the faces and voices of the past 22 months of war.

Sam Altman has a good problem. With 700 million people using ChatGPT on a weekly basis - a number that could hit a billion before the year is out - a backlash ensued when he abruptly changed the product last week. OpenAI’s innovator’s dilemma, one that has beset the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc., is that usage is so entrenched now that all improvements must be carried out with the utmost care and caution. But the company still has work to do in making the its hugely popular chatbot safer.