Insufficient route planning, a distracted pilot driver and an inadequate permitting process by the state of Washington all played a part in last year's Interstate 5 bridge collapse north of Seattle, which sent two cars into the Skagit River below, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
From expectant couples to emergency responders, the upcoming I-90 construction project has many making special plans to deal with the projected traffic nightmare.
The agency that sets and manages the tolls in Washington state told The Seattle Weekly on Monday that they were never given advance notice of the I-90 lane closures beginning Friday that is predicted to cause 10-mile backups.
About a hundred children from the area devastated by the Oso landslide are receiving scholarships to summer camp, thanks to generous donations from the community.
If you can't be a Republican, you can shoot a gun like one, according to John Curley. But doing just that got one candidate in some hot water, and he's removed his ad, in which he took a shotgun to an elephant pinata.
If your team wins the Super Bowl in dominating fashion, you're the best, right? Not according to an NFL analyst who says Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is just the seventh best amongst his peers.
Some Tacoma firefighters are getting a chance to show their stuff on national TV, thanks to a stellar lip-synching turn in a video for "Good Morning America."
In a play from 1885, put on by a society dedicated keeping these shows alive, accusations of racism have appeared where someone might normally see a show review.
You've been told many things cause cancer. You've been told many ways to help ward off cancer. It's unlikely you've been told scorpion venom will help cure cancer.
What's your plan for getting-around the I-90 closure later this week? Starting Friday, only one lane westbound will be open, and that disruption is going to last a week.
It won't help the thousands stuck in lines waiting for a ferry getting to and from the San Juan Islands this summer, but Washington State Ferries says it will start taking reservations for the popular runs starting later this year.
Whether it's rudeness, unreliability, lack of knowledge or other issues, Seattle-area taxi drivers have faced widespread criticism along with growing competition from services like Uber. So now hundreds of drivers are going back to school to help turn the tide.
