Washington

Mike Fleming, as a physical education teacher, coach and runner, is all about staying in motion. At 79, he credits his active lifestyle as the reason he’s been able to do all 49 Bloomsdays, making him a Perennial.

From 1976: Security was tightened at Spokane International Airport in the wake of a bombing at LaGuardia Airport in New York that killed 11.

OLYMPIA — The new year is here, and with it come changes to wages and laws in Washington. Starting Thursday, the state minimum wage is $17.13 an hour, up from $16.66 an hour in 2025, maintaining Washington's position as the state with the highest minimum wage in the nation. Employers may pay 14-and 15-year-old workers 85% of the minimum wage rate. The federal minimum wage rate, which hasn't ...

Historic floods that tore through Western Washington last month have exposed a gap in state law that left many of the region’s most vulnerable people unprepared for disaster and financially devastated. 

A blind taste test of cheap beers spawned a collection that numbers in the hundreds.

From 1976: “Thousands of mourners” were expected to attend the wake and funeral ceremonies for local tribal leader Joseph R. Garry in DeSmet, Idaho.

With every new year comes the tradition of resolutions, setting an intention to somehow make the coming calendar year better than the one we are leaving behind.

The federal government has agreed to resume the review process for National Institutes of Health-funded medical and scientific research grants — including those to Washington state universities and institutes — which the Trump administration attempted to freeze earlier this year.

The generosity of Spokane-area residents was never in doubt.

If you picture a first-time homebuyer in the Seattle area, you probably would not think of 24-year-old Edwin Nino Delgado with his hip-hop posters taped to the wall of his $770,000 Lake City, Washington, triplex.