Washington

SEATTLE – Amazon did not endanger warehouse workers at three Washington facilities, a state judge who oversaw a monthslong trial on claims brought by safety regulators ruled this week.

Most levies that pass increase the amount of money residents have to pay, but the proposed levy increase in Spokane County Fire District 13 might do the opposite, according to the fire chief.

Popular comedian Jack Benny talked to the press at Expo ’74 in advance of his four shows at the Opera House and, as usual, claimed he was 39.

A large wildfire is approaching a small town under evacuation on the Colville Indian Reservation.

I hope the extended weather forecast I’m looking at isn’t a joke.

Back in the day, when people still had change in their pockets, lots of fun could be had for a nickel, dime or quarter.

SEATTLE — A few hours before showtime, Krist Novoselić folds his long frame into a plush couch in Belltown Yacht Club’s dark green room. The sweltering, mid-July club date was just another rock show for the Nirvana bassist. Novoselić and an assembled-on-the-fly band were playing an unusual “political convention.”

There is a new king of the Columbia. Each spring, a chrome tide of fish native to the East Coast floods the Northwest's mightiest river by the millions. Shad, not salmon, are thriving in the warm, still water created by hydroelectric dams throughout the Columbia River Basin.

WASHINGTON – In a speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel forcefully defended his nation’s war against Hamas in response to the Palestinian armed group’s attack last year in which it killed nearly 1,200 people and took hundreds of hostages.

Jul. 24—Long after her final customer walked off the fields every August, Ivy Cheung found herself staring at the deep purple lavender plants that lined her 1-acre farm in serene Fall City, rueing the fact that people seemed to care more about taking photos with lavender than taking home bunches of the flowers. Cheung saw the would-be revenue left on her treasured plants: hundreds of pounds of ...

Jul. 24—State ferry workers at the Fauntleroy terminal have seen and heard it all. Middle fingers, yelling, cursing, slurs, disparaging tirades, passengers going at each other, crying. Motorists have even aimed for terminal crew members in their vehicles. "It's been increasing, the frustration," said Anthony Goch, the West Seattle terminal's supervisor. "The cussing, the screaming. Very ...

Young protesters, numbering 16 in all, were on trial after they burned an American flag at the gates of Expo ’74 on the Fourth of July.

Thor Anderson was "horrified" when he received an email last month from Spokane Parks and Recreation that he would not be allowed to paint plein air in any of the gardens at Manito Park.

Those who knew the late George R. Nethercutt Jr. best describe him as a man more concerned with doing good than looking good, who showed courage and kindness during adversity and taught those around him to do the same.