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FILE - Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks with reporters after meeting Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 24, 2024. Calhoun will be stepping down at the end of the year from the top job at the company, which is under pressure from major airlines wanting to know how Boeing plans to fix problems in the manufacturing of its planes. (AP Photo/J.

Boeing CEO to exit in broad management shakeup as manufacturing issues plague storied plane maker

FILE - Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun speaks with reporters after meeting Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 24, 2024. Calhoun will be stepping down at the end of the year from the top job at the company, which is under pressure from major airlines wanting to know how Boeing plans to fix problems in the manufacturing of its planes. (AP Photo/J.

March 25, 2024, 11:41am Business

Boeing CEO David Calhoun will step down from the embattled plane maker at the end of the year as part of a broader management shakeup after a series of mishaps at one of America’s most storied manufacturers. Read story

WSU offers help removing diseased cherry trees

March 25, 2024, 7:44am Business

Orcharders with infected fruit trees may qualify for help with the cost of removing them, according to an announcement from the Washington State University Extension. Read story

FILE - Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Jan. 23, 2023. The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine.

U.S. energy secretary and Rep. Newhouse spar over ‘catastrophic’ Snake dam agreement

FILE - Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Jan. 23, 2023. The Biden administration is delaying consideration of new natural gas export terminals in the United States, even as gas shipments to Europe and Asia have soared since Russia&rsquo;s invasion of Ukraine.

March 25, 2024, 7:40am Latest News

The nation’s energy secretary defended a recent federal agreement on the lower Snake River dams after Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., said breaching the dams would be “catastrophic.” Read story

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

How Patty Murray helped craft a compromise to fund the government despite chaos in Congress

Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

March 25, 2024, 7:35am Latest News

The Senate passed a $1.2 trillion spending package early Saturday morning to fund the government through September, narrowly averting a government shutdown, after the legislation cleared the House on Friday. Read story

WA’s unemployment rate at its highest point since COVID-19 spike. Here are the numbers

March 25, 2024, 7:34am Latest News

Washington’s unemployment rate hit 4.7 percent in February, according to the state’s Employment Security Department and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 4.6 percent in January. Read story

Semi-automatic pistols  on display at a gun shop.

Another explosive year for gun bills in Washington Legislature

Semi-automatic pistols  on display at a gun shop.

March 25, 2024, 6:05am Editor's Choice

Democratic state lawmakers used this year’s legislative session to bolster Washington’s bonafides in reducing the threat of and harm from gun violence in communities. Read story

Rick Steves sits on the beach in downtown Edmonds in April 2020.

Acclaimed writer Rick Steves talks Bellingham, travel tips ahead of Village Books event

Rick Steves sits on the beach in downtown Edmonds in April 2020.

March 25, 2024, 6:00am Life

Rick Steves might love Bellingham as much as your grandmother loves Rick Steves. Read story

Extended foster care for young adults up to 21 set to expand in WA

March 25, 2024, 6:00am Latest News

When Daniel Lugo left extended foster care and graduated college, he lost financial support from the state and entered homelessness. Like many college graduates, he didn’t have a job lined up. For Lugo, that meant he was applying for jobs while living in his car. Read story

18-year-old charged with vehicular homicide in Renton crash

March 24, 2024, 5:06pm Northwest

An 18-year-old man was arrested and charged with four counts of vehicular homicide for allegedly causing a four-car crash in a Seattle suburb that killed a woman and three children in her van, online jail records indicate. Read story

Hundreds of charter school students, teachers, and supporters rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., Thursday, May 17, 2018. Teachers unions and other groups have sued over Washington state's 2016 charter school law, which was enacted after the justices struck down the old law as unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Ted S.

10 years in, here’s what to know about WA charter schools

Hundreds of charter school students, teachers, and supporters rally at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., Thursday, May 17, 2018. Teachers unions and other groups have sued over Washington state's 2016 charter school law, which was enacted after the justices struck down the old law as unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Ted S.

March 24, 2024, 6:05am Latest News

In the days after a story about challenges brewing at Why Not You Academy charter school, in Des Moines, readers sent many questions to Education Lab. In the story, dozens of former staff members had come forward to demand accountability for what they say was a harmful workplace and educational… Read story