Category: Local News

Washington’s whale watching companies are celebrating a legal victory, after a Skagit County judge threw out a citizen initiative in San Juan County. Whale watching companies file lawsuit over distance restriction The ballot measure would have established a 650-yard buffer…

Since recreational marijuana was first sold in Washington, it’s become a major source of tax revenue for the state. Even so, a recent Pew report recommends the state be more careful about how it spends that money in the near…

WSDOT is presenting the results of its study to help congestion near the Tacoma Mall on Tuesday night. Problematic stretch of I-5 in Tacoma sees yet another semi collision The agency conducted the I-5 Tacoma Mall Boulevard Access Study to…

Boeing is preparing to return the 737 MAX to service after months of the model being grounded across the globe. To accomplish this, the aerospace company is planning to hire hundreds of temporary workers. Southwest mulls move away from Boeing…

Robert Ballard is the ocean explorer who found the Titanic wreckage in 1985. Right now, he is scouring Nikumaroro Island — a remote coral island in the South Pacific. His goal: find where Amelia Earhart ended up. What prompted this…

After a superior court overturned the reinstatement of controversial police officer Adley Shepherd, the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild isn’t ready to back down. Judge overturns reinstatement of Seattle police officer Adley Shepherd Former SPOG president Rich O’Neill told KIRO Radio…

The pair of minor earthquakes that struck the Puget Sound in early July provided a test of the Shake Alert early warning system at the UW’s Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, which functioned as it was designed, giving roughly two to…

A so-called salmon cannon could restore salmon populations in parts of the upper Columbia river that have not seen the fish in 90 years. The salmon cannon is actually a fish-propelling system made by a Seattle company called Whooshh Innovations,…

The Art of Racing in the Rain is a new major motion picture about a race car driver and his family told through the eyes of his dog, based on a book by Seattle area native Garth Stein. He joined…

A woman in her 30s was taken into custody after police say she drove on a golf course and struck two golf carts Friday afternoon in Lacey. Are LimePods secure enough to avoid accidents, joy rides? The incident happened at…