TACOMA - Police are investigating a Friday road rage incident in western Washington that ended with a 11-year-old being shot and seriously injured.

SALEM - Oregon State Police Troopers responded to a suspicious object found by a Oregon Department of Corrections cleanup crew on northbound Interstate 5 in Salem, near milepost 260, on Monday morning.

Scientists are investigating the causes of a nearly 40% decline in the Pacific gray whales that pass along the Oregon Coast each winter and spring on their way from Baja, Mexico, to the Arctic. One primary suspect is food scarcity with Arctic feeding grounds impacted by warming temperatures and the loss of sea ice from […]

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PULLMAN - Washington State University students will be able to explore remote instruction as a possible option for the rest of the semester.

PULLMAN - The 44-year-old Potlatch man accused of raping an underage girl along with several other sex crimes has pleaded guilty.

CLARKSTON - According to monthly unemployment numbers for October 2022 released by the Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD), Asotin County is tied for the second lowest unemployment rate in the entire state.

BELLEVUE - 34-year-old Bellevue Police Officer Jordan Jackson died from injuries sustained in a collision early Monday morning while on duty.  Jackson died at Harborview Medical Center after he had been struck by a car while patrolling on a motorcycle Monday morning.

With just over a month left in her term, Gov. Kate Brown has issued a sweeping pardon for Oregonians convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana. The pardons, announced Monday, will benefit an estimated 45,000 people, according to a statement from her office. The pardons include the forgiveness of about $14 million in associated […]

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