PALOUSE FALLS, Wash. – A 28-year-old hiker was rescued after a heavy rock struck him in the head at Palouse Falls Tuesday afternoon. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office tells KEPR News that the man, a Walla Walla

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Inslee has signed a series of bills designed to strengthen our state’s environment. Inslee on Monday signed the Climate Commitment Act, environmental justice legislation, a clean fuels standard and bills related to

SEATTLE (AP) — Private prison corporation GEO Group is suing Washington state, saying a new law mandating the closure of one of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would unconstitutionally subvert federal authority. The company’s

TRI-CITIES, Wash. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $1 million for a driver who authorities say fatally hit a construction worker near Yakima last weekend. Police say the driver’s blood-alcohol level was more than three

SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle man has been charged in federal court with making false statements while purchasing 11 firearms. The indictment says Quandre Cranshaw purchased 11 guns in March and falsely stated he was the actual

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A woman was shot and killed last weekend in what Spokane police are calling “a tragic case of road rage.” Police got multiple calls reporting the shooting Saturday morning on the city’s north

LAKE STEVENS, Wash. (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a Tesla in autopilot mode crashed into a Snohomish County deputy’s patrol car north of Seattle, causing significant damage, but no injuries. A deputy responded Saturday to a

SEATTLE (AP) — A Nigerian man suspected in Washington state’s $650 million unemployment fraud was arrested at a New York City airport. Abidemi Rufai appeared in federal court Saturday on charges that he used the identities of