July 24, 2024, 1:48pm Latest News
By a 2-to-1 ratio, Washington voters support a measure to repeal the state’s new 7% capital gains tax, according to a new poll of likely voters. Read story
July 24, 2024, 1:45pm Latest News Updated 1 day ago
Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon, cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already the largest active blaze in the nation. Read story
July 24, 2024, 7:54am Latest News Free
It’s been a year since the filing of allegations that a political committee led by hedge fund manager Brian Heywood violated campaign finance laws last year in the course of gathering signatures for six initiatives, including three on the ballot in November. Read story
July 24, 2024, 7:52am Clark County News
The Portland Police Bureau bomb squad detonated up a suspicious device that washed ashore near Martin’s Bar at Lions Day Park in Woodland on Sunday. Read story
July 24, 2024, 7:40am Election
The years ahead for Washington will likely include ongoing drought and wildfire risk, surging demand for electricity, difficult or disappointing agricultural harvests, and the complicated task of further weaning the state off fossil fuels. Read story
July 24, 2024, 7:40am Latest News
When Israel’s prime minister delivers a controversial address to Congress on Wednesday, it won’t be with the usual backdrop for such an occasion. Read story
July 24, 2024, 7:39am Business
Intalco Aluminum, the company that operated the shuttered aluminum smelter in Ferndale, has agreed to pay $5.25 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read story
July 23, 2024, 7:23pm Northwest
Lawyers for the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students are urging a judge to move his murder trial away from the county, arguing the intense media coverage and public interest in the case make it impossible for him to get a fair trial. Read story
July 23, 2024, 4:10pm Latest News Updated 2 days ago
Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with at least one Oregon fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Read story
July 23, 2024, 8:48am Election
In the hours after President Joe Biden on Sunday announced he would end his re-election bid, elected Democrats swiftly coalesced around his vice president. By Monday afternoon, nearly all Washington Democrats holding federal or statewide office had endorsed Kamala Harris as their party’s nominee for president. Read story
