Northwest

Crews from Larch Corrections Center had been a key part of wildfire response in Southwest Washington before it closed.

Can WA hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires?

September 29, 2024, 11:46am Latest News

OKANOGAN-WENATCHEE NATIONAL FOREST — The teeth of the mower chewed through a stand of small trees and shrubs 30 miles from Mount Rainier and belched out a brown cloud of dirt and wood chips. Read story

Saturday morning shooting in Yakima leaves man dead, woman injured

September 29, 2024, 10:26am Latest News

A man died after a shooting Saturday morning in Yakima, the Yakima Police Department reported. Read story

Brian Heywood, from left, founder of Let’s Go Washington, stands Tuesday with Washington State Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh in front of boxes of petitions for an initiative to repeal Washington’s cap-and invest program.

Inside one man’s campaign to take down WA’s infant carbon market

September 29, 2024, 10:25am Latest News

While big-name donors and politicians gather and spend millions against the initiative to kill Washington's fledgling carbon market, the man behind the measure is running a guerrilla campaign to sway voters to his side. Read story

FILE - A student raises their hand in a classroom at Tussahaw Elementary school Aug. 4, 2021, in McDonough, Ga. According to test results released by the Georgia Department of Education on Friday, July 26, 2024, Georgia students in some grades approached pre-pandemic scores in the 2023-2024 school year, while other grades did not.

UW study shows how pandemic affected teen boys and girls differently

September 29, 2024, 6:05am Health

Being a teen during the first part of the COVID pandemic meant experiencing many milestones — the first day of high school, birthdays, graduation — from behind a computer screen. Read story

A delivery vehicle that has been grounded from a crack in its rear light is seen near a sign that notes the distribution location, DAX8, at Johnathon Ervin’s distribution site for Amazon products on Friday, May 5, 2023 in Palmdale, CA. Ervin has decided to voluntarily unionize the company and wonders if Amazon is retaliating against his company.

Amazon demands a lot from its drivers. Now they’re pushing back

September 29, 2024, 6:04am Business

Rajpal Singh sweltered on his routes, delivering hundreds of packages every day for Amazon to homes on twisty dirt roads in the hills and valleys surrounding Lancaster and Palmdale, California. Temperatures in his van commonly climbed above 100 degrees. Read story

Climate solutions: 2 kinds of ocean energy inch forward off the Oregon coast

Workers on the vessel Nautilus that helped bury the subsea cables that run along the ocean floor to connect the wave energy test site to facilities on land near Newport, Ore., Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.

September 28, 2024, 6:05am Business

On a cloudy late August morning, Burke Hales was on a boat a mile off the central Oregon coast, pointing to a sandy beach along the forested shoreline. It was there, the Oregon State University oceanography professor said, that the subsea cables from the first large wave energy test site… Read story

Washington State inquests into killings by police remain broken, critics say

Attorney Matt Anderson, left, questions Seattle Police Officer Domisi Thrash during an inquest regarding the death of Kyle Gray Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024, in the Chinook Building in Seattle. Gray was killed in December of 2017 and the inquest is finally taking place. On the screen is dashboard footage from Officer Thrash’s car when he was following Gray after a robbery. (Ellen M.

September 28, 2024, 6:03am Courts & Crime

A King County program meant to provide answers for families of those killed by police — revised in 2018 to broaden its scope and address inequities — remains broken and should be fixed, replaced or abandoned, say prosecutors and private attorneys involved in the process. Read story