Pacific NW

The Kennewick School Board on Wednesday night passed a new policy that will limit how teachers and staff can display non-U.S. flags on campuses.

A gang member is facing decades in prison after opening fire into a Benton City party and wounding five people.

A two-term Tri-Cities lawmaker is getting serious praise from her Republican colleagues for tangling up Democrats’ floor time and strategy in Olympia.

Over 28,000 young people across the U.S. have gotten a Seattle Public Library card as part of a campaign that combats book censorship. The Seattle Public Library joined Books Unbanned in 2023. The program allows youths to receive a free library card to access e-books, even if they don't live in Seattle. The program was started by the Brooklyn Public Library in 2022, aimed at those with ...

Thousands of feet in the air on an Alaska Airlines flight that took off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the crew grappled with how to handle a strange situation. Shortly before takeoff, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had put a man on the wrong plane. After months in detention at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Rakesh Rakesh was supposed to be on an ...

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has appointed Matt Segal, a founding partner of the Pacifica Law Group and former King County Superior Court judge, to the commission that enforces state campaign finance laws.

BOISE – A Boise-based day care sued in December over the Idaho Medical Freedom Act, a controversial 2025 law that lawyers argued won’t let the facility send sick kids home or require vaccines.