Northwest

Diapers are seen, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024, in Kennesaw, Ga.

Need for diapers persists, even with new WA cash benefit

May 1, 2024, 11:17am Latest News

A law providing low-income Washington families with a monthly subsidy to buy diapers has been in effect for six months, but the need for diaper banks and other resources remains high. Read story

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Young Yakima chef Asher Niles advances to top 4 in ‘MasterChef Junior’

May 1, 2024, 7:32am Entertainment

Young chef Asher Niles, 9, of Yakima, is on to the semi-finals of Fox’s reality cooking show, “MasterChef Junior” season nine. Read story

Late outlaw gang leader’s 2 sons sentenced for ‘pumping poison’ into Eastern WA

May 1, 2024, 7:29am Northwest

A drug dealer responsible for much of the fentanyl outbreak in the Tri-Cities and Eastern Washington was sentenced Monday to 25 years in federal prison. Read story

More people landed jobs in Washington last month. More wound up jobless, too.

May 1, 2024, 6:10am Latest News Free

Washington’s economy added jobs in March. But its labor pool shrunk and the number of jobless grew as well. Read story

Organic bulk walnuts sold in natural food stores tied to dangerous E. coli outbreak

April 30, 2024, 5:21pm Business

At least a dozen people in California and Washington have been sickened with E. coli food poisoning linked to organic walnuts sold in bulk in 19 states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. The nuts were sold in natural food and co-op stores such as Whole Foods and Market of Choice. Read story

WA, feds upend plan to clean up one of nation’s most costly, dangerous radioactive sites

April 30, 2024, 9:18am Latest News

The Department of Energy and its regulators have released a revised path forward for DOE’s most costly liability in the nation — the 56 million gallons of radioactive waste stored in leak-prone underground tanks in Eastern Washington. Read story

Growing wildfire risk leaves states grappling with how to keep property insurers from fleeing

A firefighter uses a drip torch to simulate blowing embers during a burn demonstration for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Western Zone at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, Monday, April 29, 2924. The building on the left is designed to mimic a home built using fire-resistant materials with defensible space around the exterior, and the building on the right is designed to mimic a home with traditional landscaping and building materials. The building on the right quickly burned to the ground.

April 30, 2024, 7:56am Latest News

Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news — their property insurance won’t be renewed because their insurance company has deemed the risk too high. Read story