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This image provided by Seaside Aquarium shows a hoodwinker sunfish that washed ashore on June 3, 2024, on a beach in Gearhart, Ore.

Rare 7-foot fish washed ashore on Oregon’s coast garners worldwide attention

This image provided by Seaside Aquarium shows a hoodwinker sunfish that washed ashore on June 3, 2024, on a beach in Gearhart, Ore.

June 7, 2024, 3:57pm Latest News

A massive rare fish thought to only live in temperate waters in the southern hemisphere has washed up on Oregon's northern coast, drawing crowds of curious onlookers intrigued by the unusual sight. Read story

FILE - This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission. Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday, June 7, 2024, when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

Former astronaut William Anders who took iconic Earthrise photo has died in Washington plane crash

FILE - This Dec. 24, 1968, file photo made available by NASA shows the Earth behind the surface of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission. Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday, June 7, 2024, when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

June 7, 2024, 3:49pm Latest News

Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state.… Read story

A man walks through an encampment of asylum-seekers mostly from Venezuela, Congo and Angola next to an unused motel owned by the county, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Kent, Washington. The group of about 240 asylum-seekers is asking to use the motel as temporary housing while they look for jobs and longer-term accommodations.

Hundreds of asylum-seekers are camped out near Seattle. There’s a vacant motel next door

A man walks through an encampment of asylum-seekers mostly from Venezuela, Congo and Angola next to an unused motel owned by the county, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Kent, Washington. The group of about 240 asylum-seekers is asking to use the motel as temporary housing while they look for jobs and longer-term accommodations.

June 7, 2024, 1:54pm Latest News

Kabongo Kambila Ringo stood outside the tent where he has been staying with his pregnant wife and ate from a clear plastic tray of Girl Scout cookies melting in the midday sun. Read story

An endangered pygmy rabbit is seen in Eastern Washington during a 2007 reintroduction attempt which failed.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks public input on pygmy rabbit status

An endangered pygmy rabbit is seen in Eastern Washington during a 2007 reintroduction attempt which failed.

June 7, 2024, 12:47pm Latest News

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks public input on whether to keep the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit on the state’s endangered species list. Read story

A gravel distribution yard operates without a permit across the street from Fairmount Elementary School as students play at recess, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Everett, Washington.

Gravel yard by Snohomish County elementary school now up for sale

A gravel distribution yard operates without a permit across the street from Fairmount Elementary School as students play at recess, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, in Everett, Washington.

June 7, 2024, 11:50am Latest News

The site of a Snohomish County gravel yard that stirred controversy earlier this year by operating directly next to an elementary school has, amid legal wrangling with the county, now gone up for sale. Read story

Olin Wilkerson, a junior at Garfield High School, reacts after being released from lockdown following a shooting outside of the school on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Seattle.

What to know about the shooting outside Garfield High School

Olin Wilkerson, a junior at Garfield High School, reacts after being released from lockdown following a shooting outside of the school on Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Seattle.

June 7, 2024, 11:22am Latest News

A 17-year-old Garfield High student was shot and killed in the school parking lot Thursday. Read story

Husband and wife give historic donation to UW School of Nursing

June 7, 2024, 7:48am Health

The University of Washington’s School of Nursing received a $10 million donation from former chemistry professor Larry R. Dalton and his wife, Nicole A. Boand, the school announced last week. Read story

A semi-automatic rifle is displayed above shotguns at Rainier Arms Friday, April 14, 2023, in Auburn, Wash. A Cowlitz County judge ruled Washington’s ban on high-capacity magazines unconstitutional Monday, but just minutes later the state Supreme Court issued an emergency order keeping the law on the books while the state appeals the decision.

Washington Supreme Court will hear Gator’s Custom Guns case on high-capacity magazine ban

A semi-automatic rifle is displayed above shotguns at Rainier Arms Friday, April 14, 2023, in Auburn, Wash. A Cowlitz County judge ruled Washington’s ban on high-capacity magazines unconstitutional Monday, but just minutes later the state Supreme Court issued an emergency order keeping the law on the books while the state appeals the decision.

June 7, 2024, 7:47am Latest News Free

The Washington State Supreme Court has agreed to directly review a lower court ruling that invalidated the state’s ban on the sale of ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Read story

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2018, photo, employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, June 23, 2022, it will provide $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or preserve more than 500 new affordable housing units in Seattle -- the latest spending by a tech company to ease a severe housing crunch the industry has helped create.

Study ranks Washington economy as best in U.S.

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2018, photo, employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters in Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, June 23, 2022, it will provide $23 million to help minority-led organizations build or preserve more than 500 new affordable housing units in Seattle -- the latest spending by a tech company to ease a severe housing crunch the industry has helped create.

June 7, 2024, 7:46am Business

What makes an economy good or bad? And who determines those factors? Read story

Minus tides in Puget Sound area expose more of intertidal zone than at any other time in 2024

June 6, 2024, 9:12pm Northwest

More of the intertidal zone — where crabs, sculpin and sea stars hang out — will be exposed today than at any other time this year. Read story