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High school graduation requirements are about to potentially change in Washington. Students will still be required to take federally mandated exams. They just wont be required to pass them.

Buildings in Seattle's University District are being evacuated as crews respond to a natural gas leak at a construction site.

A new study shows that Washington state youth between 10 and 17 years old are well behind the national average, with an obesity rate at 11 percent.

A new study indicates a significant degree of racial bias when it comes to providing access to services for King County's homeless population.

A new study rates Seattle and Bellevue among 25 U.S. cities where earning $100,000 a year isn't enough to cover basic living expenses.

October marks the beginning of rain and gloomy weather, and odds are, it'll be the new normal for the foreseeable future.

A 52-year-old man is being remembered after he was killed Saturday night in Lake City.

SEATTLE (AP) — A natural gas leak at a construction site in Seattle’s University District that prompted evacuations has been secured hours after it began. The Seattle Fire Department responded to Northeast 45th Street and Brooklyn Avenue Northeast around 1:45 p.m. Monday Buildings including the University of Washington Tower were evacuated. An evacuation zone was […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington linebacker MJ Tafisi, who was taken off the field on a stretcher during the 25th-ranked Huskies’ win over Arizona, suffered a “significant” stinger and there is no timeline yet for his return to action, coach Chris Petersen said Monday. Tafisi was strapped down on the stretcher after being injured in the […]

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Authorities are searching for a 74-year-old woman who disappeared while picking mushrooms east of Vancouver, Washington. The Columbian reports Jung VanAtta was last seen Saturday morning on land about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northwest of Stevenson, according to the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office. She had been picking mushrooms with 87-year-old Donald […]

THE DALLES, Ore. (AP) — Two Pacific Northwest tribes are calling for the removal of three major hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River. The Lummi Nation and the Yakama Nation said Monday that the U.S. government violated a treaty from 1855 when it built the concrete dams on the lower Columbia River. The construction of […]

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon may soon allow customers to bring their own reusable food containers to grocery stores and restaurants in an effort to curb plastic waste. The Statesman Journal reports that’s not currently allowed under U.S. Food and Drug Administration rules, which Oregon has adopted, because of the potential for cross-contamination with pathogens […]

Hundreds of low-income units are scheduled to be demolished in Lynnwood, leaving many residents of the building in a panic.

Snohomish County Sheriff's deputies were investigating a suspicious death in an unincorporated area south of Everett.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A man has been arrested for allegedly throwing large rocks at Portland police cars. Portland police say an officer was inside of one of the cars. The suspect ran away after damaging two vehicles Saturday. Police say an officer chased the man and arrested him on three counts of criminal mischief, […]