October 5, 2024, 6:00am Business
The leaders of Saint Mark’s Cathedral on Capitol Hill have a vision: New neighbors living in the nearly century-old brick building the church owns just next to its cathedral. But landing one of Seattle’s overwhelmed affordable-housing developers proved challenging. Read story
October 5, 2024, 5:33am Business
In mid-September, the U.S. Census Bureau released the results of its annual American Community Survey. The report, based on nearly 2 million responses, contains nationwide 2023 population, demographic and economic data that can be broken down by state, county and city. Read story
October 4, 2024, 4:41pm Northwest
Washington leaders were in Richland this week to christen the state’s new “clean energy headquarters.” Read story
October 4, 2024, 3:35pm Northwest Free
Conservation advocates are prepared to sue over more than half of the timber sales Washington’s Board of Natural Resources approved on Tuesday, the latest flare-up in the fight over whether older trees on state-owned forestland should be spared from logging. Read story
October 4, 2024, 3:32pm Northwest Free
Each year, the Oregon Department of Forestry responds to about 1,000 wildfires across the 16 million acres of land it protects. It investigates the cause of every fire, and if a person or group is found to have been negligent or malicious in starting or spreading a significant fire, the… Read story
October 4, 2024, 1:05pm Northwest
Officials are investigating how a man convicted of assaulting a woman was able to cut off his GPS monitor and escape from a restrictive housing complex in Washington state, prompting a multistate search until he was captured Thursday. Read story
October 4, 2024, 11:42am Latest News
Famed science educator Bill Nye will grace Washingtonians’ screens this fall in an ad for the group working to protect the state’s carbon market as it faces a survival test in the Nov. 5 election. Read story
October 4, 2024, 11:41am Northwest Free
Democratic state Sen. Kevin Van De Wege, who lost his bid for Washington public lands commissioner in August, resigned from his legislative office Wednesday, three months before the end of his term. Read story
October 4, 2024, 11:29am Northwest
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.9 hit the Vancouver, British Columbia, area early Friday morning, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Read story
October 4, 2024, 9:44am Northwest
The aurora borealis is expected to be visible in Washington from Friday through Sunday as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storm watch. Read story
