On eve of B.C. protests, Trans Mountain Pipeline builder gets court order...
Battle lines are drawn on the eve of a massive civil-disobedience action in Vancouver against the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion, as developer Kinder Morgan gets a court order to force demonstrators...
View ArticleWhy new gun restrictions failed this year in the Washington Legislature
The mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and consolidated control by Democrats in Olympia couldn’t guarantee a proposal in the Washington Legislature to regulate semi-automatic rifles.
View ArticleImported guard dogs deployed as part of US wolf-sheep study
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal scientists are trying to decide if it’s time to let the big dogs out. Nearly 120 dogs from three large breeds perfected over centuries in Europe and Asia to be gentle around...
View ArticleOwner of Mexican restaurants in King, Snohomish counties charged with $5.6M...
Charging papers say state employees went undercover at six Tacos Guaymas restaurants in Seattle, Marysville and Lynnwood.
View ArticleOlympic National Park goats may be moved to North Cascades
Part of the problem, the National Park Service says, is the goats in the park are a public-safety concern.
View ArticleFrom breaking laws to making laws: ex-pimp at center of new police reforms
Andrè Taylor is an ex-con who came to Seattle saying he was going to start a war. What he actually did was a remarkable feat of community organizing that just led to changes in the police deadly-force...
View ArticleHow local lawmakers voted in Congress
Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues in the week ending March 9.
View ArticleThousands of marchers in British Columbia say no to Trans Mountain pipeline
Thousands turned out Saturday in Vancouver, B.C., for a march and demonstration against Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby.
View ArticleNew beer aims to keep women safe in backcountry
By day, Krystin Norman is a staff scientist and microbiologist at Fremont Brewing. But now she has combined beer and her passion for the backcountry to make sure women are safe on their skis.
View ArticleBig changes could be coming to Seattle's Northgate Mall
The owners of Northgate Mall have submitted a proposal to the city of Seattle to "undertake a complete re-imagining of Northgate."
View ArticleBritain playgrounds: learning to accept risk, and occasional ‘owie’
After decades spent ratcheting up safety measures, many British educators say the pendulum has swung too far. Bring on the scissors, bricks and mud pits.
View ArticleTeen girl shot in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood
Police were searching for a pickup truck in connection with the shooting.
View ArticleGirl, 15, shot in Leschi neighborhood
A 15-year-old girl was shot Saturday night in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood and rushed to Harborview Medical Center.
View ArticleFrench president pokes at Trump for leaving Paris accord
NEW DELHI (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron took a jibe Sunday at President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement. Macron did not name Trump while speaking at the first...
View ArticleDino Rossi downplays Trump factor in congressional race: ‘I am not running to...
Rossi's back again, making his fourth bid for major public office. The former Washington state senator from Sammamish is on arguably easier turf this time as he seeks to succeed retiring Republican...
View ArticleNagasaki survivor visits Hanford, finds some of the story still untold
Mitsugi Moriguchi, 81, is the first Nagasaki survivor known to have visited the Hanford reactor — now part of a national park — that produced plutonium for the World War II bomb detonated over that...
View ArticleTacoma police arrest man, 28, for killing his mother
Police arrest man after calling 911to report that he had killed his mother; 63-year-old woman found shot to death in home.
View ArticleThe tale of Rex, the Des Moines dog who took bullets for his teenage best friend
Rex the Dog took two to three bullets to defend his 16-year-old owner in a Des Moines home invasion. Rex does have a few flaws, but when it mattered, he was a true hero.
View ArticleWashington state’s public pensions include $5.3M in gun-related investments
The amount is a tiny fraction of the $98 billion in total assets managed by the Washington State Investment Board and is dwarfed by the largest single stock holding of $573.3 million in Apple.
View ArticleTacoma school security guards want their guns back
TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Washington school district took away the handguns of nine security guards before the start of the school year. Those guards now want their weapons back. The News Tribune reports...
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