Washington

Mar. 21—When the Xw'lemi Outrigger Racing Association (or XORA for short) met for the first time in September 2024, it had six members. By its next practice, that number had doubled. "Posted [it] to social media, word of mouth. By the next one, kids brought friends, kids brought siblings, we were up to maybe 13 or 14 kids," Karli Kinley, one of the group's leaders, told The Herald in a phone ...

Anti-Elon Musk protests have led consumers to boycott Tesla, unsettling the company and its share price. Could public sentiment have a similar effect on Musk's privately owned space ventures?

A longtime Washington resident detained at the federal immigration detention center in Tacoma filed a class-action Thursday that challenges what the lawsuit calls the Tacoma Immigration Court’s policy of refusing to consider releasing people on bond who have lived in the country for years.

For the fourth straight week, gas prices are down nationally. The trend has brought the average cost of a gallon of gas from $3.13 the week ending Feb. 24, to $3.06 the week ending March 17, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.

A Tri-Cities man allegedly did $30,000 in damage to the Pasco Catholic Charities housing and threatened to kill police in an hours long standoff.

OLYMPIA – Unionized employees of the Washington attorney general’s office staged protests at offices throughout the state Thursday over plans for a monthly furlough of state employees and cuts to the agency.