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The Oregon Department of Transportation announced Friday that it's shutting down planning for the Columbia River Crossing project after the state Legislature declined to approve funding to build a new Interstate 5 and light-rail bridge into Washington.

Four Redmond High School students and one graduate didn't want to miss out on the historic occasion in Olympia on Feb. 26. At 2 p.m. in the state's capitol building, Gov. Jay Inslee signed the Washington Dream Act into law.

Online registration is open at www.coastsavers.org for volunteers wanting to take part in the annual Washington Coast Cleanup on April 19. As in the past, the cleanup will extend from Hobuck Beach near Neah Bay to Cape Disappointment.

In truth, these numbers do not tell us anything about the dangerousness of marijuana.

United Nations human rights experts demanded answers Thursday from Venezuela's government about the use of violence and imprisonment in a crackdown on widespread demonstrations.

Gary Chandler, vice president of government affairs for the Association of Washington Business, returned to the Greater Marysville Tulalip Chamber of Commerce's Business Before Hours on Friday, Feb. 28, to predict that the current state legislative session would wrap up quickly, due to a number of factors which caused him to express cautious ... (more)

A drenching start to March has roads crews scrambling around the Puget Sound area, with mudslides and rushing water closing nearly 20 King County roads, and more closures possible.

Portraying America's 36th chief executive, Lyndon Baines Johnson, in Robert Schenkkan's democratic procedural drama "All the Way," Cranston proves so effortlessly captivating that you could imagine pulling a lever for him - or even contributing generously to whatever campaign war chest he trots out.

Just when you thought Hump Day couldn't get any better, we bring you puppy sneakers! Vans teamed up with the ASPCA in a show of support against animal abuse and cruelty.

Last fall, the state crushed a record 210,000 tons of wine grapes, of which 42,600 were Cabernet Sauvignon.

A film written and directed by a Yakima Valley native and shot all around the Valley will be on a local screen again soon.

After a day of frustrated attempts to get Russia to bend its stance on Ukraine, the U.S. turned from diplomacy to ridicule in offering a catalog of the ways it says Russian President Vladimir Putin bends the truth.

Every day, Washington police are searching for information on dozens of missing children.

The Federal Air Marshal Service office at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is one of six field offices that will be closed by 2016 even after it survived a congressional inquiry into employee complaints.

Washington state issued its first legal marijuana business license Wednesday, launching a new phase in the state's ambitious effort to regulate a market that has been illegal for more than 75 years.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced charges Wednesday against the owner of the M/V Forus, a salmon trawler that sank in the Columbia River near Finley in July.

It has been interesting to me to research each of our former presidents and try to see their differences in leadership as well as other aspects of their presidency.

The Washington State Archives, according to a recent Herald of Everett article, will soon run out of space .

On Friday, March 28, 2014 the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Pacific NW Region, will sponsor a free half-day of training about National Library of Medicine resources and databases for library staff from community colleges in Washington State.

Bread lab resident baker Jonathan Bethony McDowell confers with visiting chefs Adam Kaye and Devin McDavid from New York's Blue Hill restaurant on Feb. 20 at the WSU extension center's bread lab in Mount Vernon.