Washington

Port of Longview commissioners stressed the need for extra safety measures for Rotschy, Inc. during a meeting about their $44 million contract for a new rail expansion project.

A pregnant mother-of-four is raising concerns about their detention in a single room for 24 days.

A 77-year-old retiree in Kennewick empowers young women welders at a local trade school with a trailer project — sparking skills, friendship and a dream journey to Texas in an upcycled camper named Isabella.

Brian Heywood, the founder of Let’s Go Washington, has filed new proposals to curb property taxes, create a new school choice funding program, target trans student athletes, and repeal the state Legislature’s recent changes to the “parents’ rights” law.

They’re tiny, they’re bright red, and you’ve probably seen them scooting around Seattle: mini Japanese firetrucks known as kei trucks. However, they can't be registered as vehicles in Oregon.

The policy would curtail cellphone use for all of the district’s 22,000 students next school year.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday signed into law a controversial policy requiring gun buyers to first pay for a new state permit.

Hundreds of federal employees managing the nation’s main hydropower corridor have retired, resigned or been released due to Trump orders and hiring freezes.

“It can be very easy if you find one of these babies to not see mom and to worry that it might be abandoned, when really she’s just taking her time and is going to come back to them that evening,” said wildlife veterinarian Marcie Logsdon with Washington State University.

President Donald Trump's proposal would defund the 11-region Integrated Ocean Observing System — cutting off the buoys, drones and radar that feed Oregon, Washington state and other coasts the real-time wave, wind and current data vital for safe shipping, tsunami routes and storm forecasts.