With the state in the midst of a whooping cough epidemic, the health department says it is more important than ever for kids to get their required immunizations. But, how do they know if parents are really following through?
Fighting forest fires is not easy. It takes a specialtype of person to work 16 hour days in the face of walls of flames and burning homes and timber. But for a small group of young men. Fighting fires is the last chance to get out of life of crime and put their lives on the right path.
Jason Puracal, a U.S. citizen who claims he has been wrongly imprisoned in Central America, took center stage at his appeal hearing in Granada, Nicaragua on Monday.
A body was recovered Saturday morning from the Puyallup River that matches the description of 29-year-old Josh McNamara, who disappeared while floating down the river on an inner tube on July 8.
Since 2010, the State Department of Revenue has been telling medical marijuana establishments that they must collect and send in sales taxes on their transactions. Now they are auditing dispensaries to collect the taxes.
New data on the recent economic recession shows that, although men lost more jobs, married mothers who lost their jobs were least likely to find new employment and had the greatest decrease in annual earnings at their new jobs.
This August the state Traffic Safety Commission's Target Zero group will repeat its annual Drive Hammered, Get Nailed campaign to reduce drunk driving.
Hempfest, the annual festival and rally demonstrating against America's laws criminalizing marijuana, will be held this weekend in Seattle. While most festival-goers are in support of legalizing pot, a big faction are not in favor of the most recent marijuana initiative on the ballot.
The man that played guitar on many of the massive hits from Seattle band Heart is hosting what he calls a "really unusual music festival" out on the Olympic Peninsula this weekend.
Seattle was the setting for an exciting bicycle street chase after a Portland man took it upon himself to find his treasured bicycle that had been stolen.
