Washington

State residents can order a naloxone kit at no cost with free shipping through the Department of Health's new mail-order program. 

It’s lilac season in the Inland Northwest.

As a teen, Helen Kennett marched with the Shadle Park High School band in the Armed Forces Torchlight Parade.

A Spokane Chronicle writer said the Expo ’74 pavilions weren’t the only thrilling tourist sights. He said visitors were just as impressed by Spokane’s newly revamped downtown.

Actor Sean Astin is visiting Spokane to speak at a Women Helping Women fundraising event, and for the “Lord of the Rings” and “Stranger Things” actor, it’s a homecoming.

More than 74,000 people on Whidbey Island could face long-term health impacts from the U.S. Navy jet noise that's blasted over residents several days a week for over a decade, new research shows.

Spokane Valley City Councilman Al Merkel responded to the recently completed investigation into his conduct with city staff at a council meeting Tuesday, questioning whether elements of the investigation’s findings and the measures put in place during and after the probe may have been racial discrimination.

Several University of Washington buildings were tagged with pro-Palestinian messages overnight into Wednesday, which an administrator referred to as a “major escalation” in an internal email obtained by The Daily newspaper. Nearly all major buildings were spray painted, some with “antisemitic slogans,” the email said.

Spokane is one step closer to seeing $10 million in affordable housing units for refugees and the general public by 2025, without the use of tax dollars.

Expo ’74 had a de facto “complaint department” – the Guest Relations Department – but so far the complaints were few and mostly constructive.

State Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, will soon be a state senator, barring an insurgent write-in campaign, after his only opponent withdrew from the race Monday.

The family of a 23-year-old Marshallese man who was killed by police after allegedly holding a knife to a toddler in 2022 may soon receive a settlement of $250,000 from the city of Spokane, avoiding a lengthy and potentially costly civil trial.

HARRINGTON, Wash. – Allen Barth bought a dilapidated building on Harrington’s main drag about 13 years ago, a former Ford dealership from the early 1900s. He needed a home for his lifelong hobby – a place to store and showcase his collection of Studebakers and memorabilia.

Washington recorded another grim milestone this week, with numbers from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission showing yet another year of increasing fatalities on the state's roads.

German concert pianist Johannes Fischer overcame a pair of difficulties during his American debut at Expo ’74.

The Spokane City Council will consider a new, longer ban on new development in Latah Valley area while development rules are overhauled and funding secured for a long-delayed fire station.

Drama that ensued last week when three people named Bob Ferguson all filed campaigns to run for Washington’s governor appeared to have boiled over Monday when two of the trio of Bobs dropped out of the race. On Monday afternoon, state attorney general Bob Ferguson issued a public statement in which he threatened to take legal action if the other two people by the same name did not withdraw their candidacies by the deadline later that day.

Friday was the deadline to file for political office in the Aug. 6 primary in Washington, and Monday was the deadline for candidates to withdraw from races if they changed their minds.

Medical Lake Mayor Terri Cooper has suspended her campaign to represent Eastern Washington in Congress, she acknowledged in a news release after not filing to run before the Friday deadline.