Washington News

Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Senator Patty Murray and others celebrated the success of the program and recognized the unprecedented efforts in the state to bring health insurance to people who could not have afforded it in the past.

A known carcinogen, asbestos needs to be removed with the use of safety equipment including respirators.

After Sen. Rodney Tom announced his retirement last week, Washington Democrats expressed confidence they will retake control of the Senate next November.

The state Health Department is trying to find the cause of an unusually high number of rare birth defects in south-central Washington.

A half-eaten cinnamon roll led a State Department of Corrections officer to the man who stole his vehicle early Monday morning, Madison police said.

Sound Transit officials on Tuesday said they've selected Mercy Housing Northwest to build 108 apartments near the Othello light rail station in Southeast Seattle.

Three counties in Eastern Washington aren't making much progress when it comes to a rare and deadly birth defect.

Each one describes it quite differently, depending on the part of the elephant they happen to feel.

Swooping over a terrain of great sadness and death, President Barack Obama took an aerial tour Tuesday of the place where more than three dozen people perished in a mudslide last month and steeled himself to mourn with those who lost loved ones in the destruction.

Darren Malry, 51, a corrections officer, has been arrested and charged with bribery following an undercover FBI investigation in which he allegedly accepted money for smuggling contraband into the District of Columbia's Correctional Treatment Facility.

U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says she will seek her sixth term in the U.S. House from Washington's Fifth Congressional District.

President Obama will be in Oso Tuesday to meet with the families of the victims.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports it's the first time since 2008 that a farmworker shortage was reported as early as March.

The star of the show was, naturally, the Easter Bunny. And, anytime you have a life-sized rabbit walking around the White House, hilarity ensues.

FILE - In this April 23, 2013 file photo, a Japan Coast Guard vessel, left, sails along with a Chinese surveillance ship near the disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China in the East China Sea.

An excavator clears a drainage channel Wednesday, April 2, at the scene of the deadly landslide that devastated Oso, Washington, on March 22. The landslide crossed the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River and caused multiple deaths and massive damage.

Vice President Joe Biden on Monday launched a high-profile visit to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to Ukraine and push for urgent implementation of an international agreement aimed at de-escalating tensions even as violence continues.

The May wildflower bloom high on Dog Mountain on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge will now be accessible via a weekend Skamania County recreation bus.

The city of Bremerton has blocked off one lane in each direction of Washington Avenue between Fifth Street and the Manette Bridge.

Washington state has ended a more than two-decade-old program that used prisoners to remove asbestos-containing material, a newspaper reported Monday.