Pacific NW

Eight firefighters who sued Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue after they were placed on leave because they wouldn’t comply with the 2021 COVID-19 vaccine mandate, citing religious reasons, have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case.

Joel Connelly got his start in newspapers with a temporary summer job at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the 1970s.

An early fundraising leader has emerged from the crowd of candidates battling to succeed retiring Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse in central Washington.

An Idaho federal judge pushed back against the Trump administration over its immigration agenda in a recent court ruling. The administration has hardened its attitude toward immigrants since President Donald Trump took office after promising mass deportations, for example, by pressuring immigration judges to deport more people. The administration has also pushed for mandatory detention of all ...

The Pierce County teenager who described his plans to carry out a school shooting in homemade videos and seemed to idolize people who had committed deadly mass attacks pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempted threat to bomb or injure property and other offenses. The teen was 13 years old in September when the Sheriff’s Office searched his family’s home in the middle of the night and found 22 ...

The Washington State Department of Health issued a recall for commercially harvested oysters and clams that were shipped to locations across California, Oregon and Washington, including Whatcom County, due to possible norovirus contamination.

Only a fraction of Washington law enforcement officers have completed de-escalation and mental-health training mandated by state law and intended to reduce the use of force and improve public interactions with police, according to a state performance audit. The requirements were required by a sweeping citizens initiative, I-940, which took effect in 2018 and overhauled accountability ...