Northwest

Pierce County settles gender discrimination lawsuit for $80,000

July 8, 2024, 7:38pm Northwest

Pierce County has settled for $80,000 a gender discrimination lawsuit brought by a maintenance technician who claimed she was repeatedly denied promotions in a male-dominated department because she is a woman. Read story

Making WA’s long-term care program optional will create costs for state

July 8, 2024, 2:19pm Latest News Free

If voters pass Initiative 2124 to make Washington’s long-term care benefit voluntary, it could cost the state millions of dollars to deal with a large-scale exodus of people from the program. Read story

An egg lays in a small frying pan at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Sunday, July 7, 2024. Forecasters say a heat wave could break previous records across the U.S., including in Death Valley.

Officials in Oregon’s Multnomah County report 4 suspected heat-related deaths

July 8, 2024, 11:50am Latest News

A searing heat wave gripped large parts of the United States on Monday, with record daily high temperatures in Oregon suspected to have caused four deaths in the Portland area following a motorcyclist's death in dangerous heat over the weekend in Death Valley, California. Read story

FILE - A cruise ship departs from downtown Juneau, on June 7, 2023, along the Gastineau Channel, in Alaska. Voters in Alaska’s capital city could decide in October whether to ban large cruise ships on Saturdays starting next year.

An Alaska tourist spot will vote whether to ban cruise ships on Saturdays to give locals a break

July 8, 2024, 8:02am Business

Each year, a crush of tourists arrives in Alaska’s capital city on cruise ships to see wonders like the fast-diminishing Mendenhall Glacier. Now, long-simmering tensions over Juneau’s tourism boom are coming to a head over a new voter initiative aimed at giving residents a respite from the influx. Read story

A person reaches to wet a piece of cloth at a misting station as others cool off with the misters during the Waterfront Blues Festival on Friday, July 5, 2024, in Portland, Ore. A slow-moving and potentially record-setting heat wave is spreading across the Western U.S., sending many residents in search of a cool haven from the dangerously high temperatures.

WA faces poor air quality, wildfire and heat-related illness risks

July 8, 2024, 7:41am Latest News

As Western Washington sizzles in the thralls of Mother Nature’s sun-soaked spell, officials are warning of fire danger and heat-related illness risks. Read story

SeaTac’s $40,000 Fourth of July fail: 55 drones drop into Angle Lake

July 8, 2024, 7:35am Northwest

It was supposed to be a brand-new Fourth of July experience, having a drone light show at Angle Lake in SeaTac, a body of water squeezed in between Interstate 5 and Highway 99. The lake is just off the international airport associated with the city’s name. Read story

Seattle police second in command accused of asking deputy to lie on report

July 8, 2024, 7:32am Northwest

Pierce County prosecutors are looking into allegations that Seattle Police Deputy Chief Eric Barden — already facing possible charges for domestic abuse — asked a deputy to lie on a police report and not arrest his former domestic partner, who was accused of violating a protective order last year, according… Read story