A New Jersey gym owner and a Washington state man have become the first people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to plead guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the deadly

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Tacoma couple has been sentenced to five and seven years in prison after authorities found large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine and MDMA in their home. Federal prosecutors say Jaymes Gallagher was sentenced

SEATTLE (AP) — King County has agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a young pregnant Muckleshoot woman killed by sheriff’s deputies. The Seattle Times

NESPELEM, Wash. (AP) — The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government, contending federal agencies failed to fulfill their legally required duties before, during and after the 2015 wildfires that

SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving six Seattle police officers who were in Washington D.C. during the Jan. 6 insurrection and sued several people who filed public records requests

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The unprecedented heat wave that swept the Pacific Northwest this summer killed scores of the region’s most vulnerable who couldn’t leave their homes, afford air conditioning or get a ride to public cooling

SEATTLE (AP) — The King County sheriff has instituted an immediate return to 100% remote work for many staffers citing unsafe conditions around the county courthouse and parking garage as well as an administrative building and jail

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement and other vehicles lined up Tuesday at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, for a procession to honor Clark County Sheriff’s Detective Jeremy Brown, who was shot to death while