It was the footnote on the announcement that the last of the military combat roles would be open to women: the draft. Congressman Charlie Rangel is no stranger to wanting to bring the draft back, and now it seems there is no reason not too.
Authorities have brought charges against a 58-year-old man in connection with a false report that led to a fighter jet escort for an Alaska Airlines flight in January.
Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon resigned Thursday at the end of his "state of the county" speech, saying his family has suffered enough from the political controversy surrounding his office.
The court-appointed monitor in charge of overseeing Seattle Police Department reforms sent a pointed email to city officials after they questioned expenses he and his team billed to taxpayers.
A heady 4-year-old Oregon girl likely saved her younger sister's life early Wednesday when her mom drove off a rural road near the southwest Washington coast and crashed deep in the woods, but it was some curious locals that likely saved them both.
Two young children spent hours in the cold near a remote Southwest Washington highway after a crash that killed their mother.
Lawyers for a young man who claims he was assaulted by a Seattle Police officer then threatened several times in a jail holding cell by the same officer have filed a $500,000 claim against the Seattle Police Department.
When all of the books, movies and other retrospectives about the history of Seattle's grunge scene came out, most seem to have forgotten a major component: women. But a new production debuting this week at Seattle's ACT Theater aims to fix that.
A transportation funding plan from Washington House democrats pays for almost $10 billion in projects statewide, but includes some controversial revenue sources.
The U.S. Olympic Committee is looking for cities interested in bidding for the 2024 Summer Games. Seattle was one of 35 cities that received letters Tuesday to gauge interest in a potential bid to bring the Summer Olympics back to the U.S. for the first time since 1996.
It's a legacy. It's a liability. A radioactive waste tank at the Hanford nuclear reservation is leaking and concerned that a long-planned plant to treat that waste is behind schedule and over budget.
A father-to-be couldn't get his wife to the hospital in time for his daughter's arrival so he had to deliver the newborn in the front seat of his car along I-5 in Lakewood.
The Pierce County property tax statements that went out in the mail last week included an embarrassing mistake. But the mistake has nothing to do with the tax calculation.
When voters legalized marijuana in November, prosecutors around the state started to throw-out all the misdemeanor possession cases on their desks. That got one lawmaker thinking about all the misdemeanor possession convictions the state had racked-up and whether they should be tossed-out too.
