September 1, 2024, 1:28pm Northwest
Three people were dead after a small plane crashed into a row of townhouses Saturday morning in a neighborhood east of Portland, setting the homes ablaze, authorities told KATU-TV. Read story
September 1, 2024, 11:27am Latest News
Doug Johnson was packing to leave his home on a hot August afternoon. Read story
September 1, 2024, 9:04am Latest News
So-called ghost guns, privately made firearms that don’t have serial numbers and are largely untraceable, are now banned across Oregon after a federal judge denied a legal challenge that tried to block the prohibition. Read story
September 1, 2024, 6:02am Business
The near-catastrophic midair blowout of a door-sized fuselage panel on an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 in January was caused by two distinct manufacturing errors by different crews on successive days last fall in Boeing’s assembly plant in Renton, Washington. Read story
September 1, 2024, 6:02am Health
Helping a pregnant minor travel to get a legal abortion without parental consent is now a crime in at least two Republican-led states, prompting legal action by abortion-rights advocates and copycat legislation from conservative lawmakers in a handful of other states. Read story
September 1, 2024, 6:00am Health
When the wave of fentanyl began moving across the United States, federal prosecutors took note and planned to crack down at the first sign of fentanyl in Eastern Washington. Read story
September 1, 2024, 6:00am Latest News
Washington has been releasing an increasing number of “sexually violent predators” from its treatment facility on McNeil Island, with little oversight. A Seattle Times investigation found that 1 in 4 people set free have been arrested for new crimes; 1 in 7 reoffended in a serious or violent manner. Read story
September 1, 2024, 6:00am Northwest
The Seattle Times investigated Washington’s system for committing and releasing so-called “sexual violent predators.” But beyond this population, there are many more people who commit sex crimes in Washington state and who are incarcerated or required to register as sex offenders. Read story
August 31, 2024, 6:05am Business
Federal agriculture regulators announced Tuesday that they approved the testing process that could allow farmers in the U.S. to start planting a genetically modified strain of wheat from South America that produces good crops even in drought conditions. Read story
August 31, 2024, 6:00am Life
You’ve probably come across more spiders or have even walked straight into spider webs recently, and that’s because the spider season in Western Washington has begun. Well, kind of. Read story
