At least 48 people have died after consuming a drink in southern Nigerias Ondo state.

South Korea plans to approve abortion pills for the first time to promote women's health and safety.

A man and a child Sunday evening were injured in an encounter with a black bear in Whatcom County the second incident in a month in the Bellingham area.

The Health Department has not decided whether to provide the shots to states through the Vaccines for Children program, which serves uninsured and low-income families.

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The City Council voted unanimously to extend protections to pansexual and asexual people, and adults in consensual relationships with more than one partner.

Messages from the Bite of Seattle shooting posted Wednesday include communications from Andre Sayles, deputy chief at the time, and other police employees.

Authorities say three people are dead after being swept away by floodwaters that rushed through the Navajo Nation.

Apartment construction has slowed to a trickle in Seattle. Should the city offer developers a financial break to jump-start more construction?

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

A person driving an allegedly stolen SUV died Wednesday after crashing into a King County Metro bus just south of Kent, injuring three of its passengers, officials said.

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Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum, the result of a powerful impact two years ago.

Fredd Young, who made four Pro Bowls as a special teams ace and linebacker in his four years with the Seahawks in the 1980s, died at 64.

WA fined the Port Townsend Paper Company $743,000 for a series of spills, including two that poured out thousands of gallons of highly alkaline black liquor.

The World Health Organization reports encouraging signs in the fight against an Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo.

The Latah County prosecutor's office said the unredacted photos that may soon be released from true-crime creators came from "an unknown source."

Traffic on southbound Interstate 5 has backed up for miles north of the Ship Canal Bridge while a crash is blocking the left three lanes.

Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.

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We do a "democracy checkup" after the Supreme Court upholds mail-in balloting. Election experts say the real constitutional crisis may come after the voting is over.

Our reporters cinnamon rolls won a blue ribbon at the Washington State Fair in 2024. Curious about the judging process, she returned for seconds this summer.

More than 900,000 acres burned across Washington state, the second-most on record.

A major report has found that 12.5 trillion tons of ice from Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979.

The number of people aged 100 or older in Japan has surpassed a record 100,000 this year.