March 14, 2024, 8:55am Latest News Free
The chair of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission is under fire over the use of a racial slur and his passive response to employee allegations of bullying, harassment and discrimination in the regulatory agency. Read story
March 14, 2024, 7:42am Northwest
Evergreen State College personnel turned off carbon monoxide alarms that sounded in an on-campus residence hours before a 21-year-old student died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to State Patrol investigation findings into the man’s death. Read story
March 14, 2024, 7:41am Northwest
After several extensions and five months of negotiations, the Washington State Department of Ecology is telling the Spokane International Airport it will not accept any more delays for the initial stages of PFAS contamination cleanup. Read story
March 14, 2024, 7:40am Northwest
No criminal charges will be filed against a Seattle SWAT officer who in 2020 shot and killed a 24-year-old man who was fleeing officers while carrying his infant daughter in Mount Baker, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. Read story
March 14, 2024, 7:40am Latest News
During the past two months, state legislators in Olympia passed a stack of 359 bills that Gov. Jay Inslee has been working through signing into law this week. Read story
March 14, 2024, 7:38am Business
Boeing security footage, which may have offered insight into how a door panel blew off an Alaska Airlines plane mid-flight, was “overwritten” and is now lost, according to a letter published Wednesday from the National Transportation Safety Board. Read story
March 13, 2024, 7:55pm Northwest
Jeremy Petty manages about 100 acres of vineyards in the Walla Walla Valley, and he said that as the vines begin to wake back up, it’s clear that they were hit hard by the frigid temperatures in January. Read story
March 13, 2024, 7:47pm Northwest
Two more legal opinions — one from Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a second from an outside law firm — have cast more doubt on the University of Idaho’s planned purchase of the University of Phoenix, kindling calls from lawmakers to review or nix the $550 million deal. Read story
March 13, 2024, 6:55pm Northwest
Evergreen State College personnel turned off carbon monoxide alarms that went off in an on-campus residence hours before a 21-year-old student died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to State Patrol investigation findings into the man’s death. Read story
March 13, 2024, 6:49pm Northwest Free
Veteran state Sen. Karen Keiser bade farewell to her colleagues in the final hours of the 2024 legislative session. Read story