Pacific NW

Two backcountry recreators were killed in an avalanche Friday, according to the Kittitas County sheriff's office. Two others survived. One suffered injuries, the Northwest Avalanche Center reported. The avalanche slid down Longs Pass around 4 p.m. in the eastern slopes of the Cascades, just south of the Enchantments. Snow partially buried one of the men, who was injured, and fully buried the ...

The number of students in Washington’s public schools fell by 9,000 this school year, the biggest single-year drop since enrollment began emerging from pandemic-era lows, according to new state data shared Thursday. Statewide, public school enrollment is about 50,000 students lower than it was in the 2019-20 school year, when COVID-19 upended society and schools. The ongoing decline is ...

After Idaho’s top election official gave the federal government a list of all Idaho registered voters that scrubbed their personal information, the U.S. Department of Justice says it wants the unredacted list.

Democratic leaders in the Washington state Legislature said Friday they have no plans to hold hearings on two conservative-backed initiatives focused on parental rights of students in public schools and banning transgender athletes from playing girls’ sports.

MUKILTEO — Washington hopes to be a leader in producing planet-friendly jet fuel — and the state’s companies, universities and elected officials say they are moving closer to that goal.

Seattle police responded to reports that armed, masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three men Wednesday, pulling them into an unmarked van, on Aurora Avenue in North Seattle.

A court order will allow Idaho to enforce a state law that bans people from changing the listed sex on their birth certificate, which critics of the law have said singles out transgender people who want to change their legal documents to align with their gender identity.

PORTLAND – Officials in Oregon have launched an investigation after federal agents shot and injured two people Thursday, in an incident that came a day after the fatal shooting of a woman by an ICE officer in Minneapolis and prompted fierce criticism from officials in Oregon.

Seven months after the Trump administration cut Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) money meant to relocate about 50 mobile-home park residents from a flood-prone valley near Tacoma, residents had the worst flood in 17 years.

Broken roads, old ferries and devastation left by December's storms are top of mind for the Democratic and Republican leaders on the Legislature's transportation committees.