May 15, 2024, 7:42am Northwest
Thousands of University of Washington teaching assistants went on strike Tuesday after their union and university officials failed to reach an agreement on future wage increases. Read story
May 14, 2024, 8:10pm Northwest
Tacoma is getting three zero-emission trains, weighing as much as 350,000 pounds each and chugging by at speeds of up to 10 mph. The city has received some fiscal help to cover the cost of the green machines. Read story
May 14, 2024, 6:49pm Northwest
Consequential pieces of evidence that may weigh heavily into the prosecution and defense of Bryan Kohberger are the focus of a pair of closed-door hearings this week as his high-profile murder case works itself nearer a trial. Read story
May 14, 2024, 6:42pm Latest News
Washington recorded another grim milestone this week, with numbers from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission showing yet another year of increasing fatalities on the state’s roads. Read story
May 14, 2024, 4:26pm Northwest
Across the country, the story for families is virtually the same: Child care is unaffordable for many, hard to find for those who can pay, and financially precarious for day care operators and their employees. Read story
May 14, 2024, 8:30am Northwest
A Tri-Cities man has admitted to conspiring with two other people who fraudulently obtained about $265,000 in federal COVID relief loans, including by submitting false payroll and tax records to the federal government. Read story
May 14, 2024, 8:20am Latest News
Criminal charges are not warranted in the rare liquor probe that shook Oregon’s alcohol agency last year and forced its executive director to resign, state justice officials said Monday. Read story
May 14, 2024, 7:57am Northwest
Designs created by freshman engineering students at Whitworth University may one day help create toys for Spokane children with disabilities. Read story
May 14, 2024, 7:54am Business
Katrina Keffer was supposed to keep a neutral expression on her face when the company officials told her their proposal for pay increases for employees of Spokane-area Fred Meyer, Albertsons and Safeway stores. Read story
May 14, 2024, 7:53am Northwest
The evening of May 31, 2019, a troubled 26-year-old man and an Auburn police officer with a violent history came together in a fateful, fatal 67-second encounter outside a neighborhood market. Read story