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An 82-year-old Pasco woman is believed to be the second person murdered by a man already behind bars. Officers say they discovered the woman had been killed in her home in the 1200 block of W. Washington Street, because she possibly owned a car that the suspect was driving when he was arrested...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Gov. Jay Inslee has appointed Michelle Szambelan to the Spokane County Superior Court. The new judge will replace retiring Judge Linda Tompkins, who has served on the bench for 20 years. Inslee said Tuesday that Szambelan has served as a judge in Spokane Municipal Court for nine years...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Light snow began falling before the morning commute in the Portland metropolitan area, a preview of the heavier precipitation that's expected during the drive home from work and into the evening. The National Weather Service says a winter storm warning is in effect from the Portland metro area north into Southwest Washington, with potential snow accumulations of 3 to 8 inches

Nearly 35,000 sandhill cranes will stop in Othello for just a few days in March as they migrate north to their breeding grounds in Alaska. For those who want to take it all in, registration for the Othello Sandhill Crane Festival tours opened Monday...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Federal officials are offering a $100,000 prize to find a way to kill invasive quagga and zebra mussels. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says the only area not yet invaded by the mussels in the contiguous United States is the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Most recent data show 38 Oregon residents 19-and-under died by suicide in 2015. The Statesman Journal reports the Oregon Health Authority's 2016 Youth Intervention and Prevention Plan Annual Report says those 38 suicides accounted for 45 percent of the suicides reported among youth 24-and-under...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The U.S. Forest Service will waive fees at day-use recreation sites in Oregon and Washington Monday in honor of Presidents' Day. Jim Peña, Pacific Northwest Regional Forester, says he hopes the fee-free day encourages new and repeat visitors to come out and enjoy their national forests. Th...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A billion-dollar project that will allow animals to travel unimpeded over Washington state's busiest interstate is now visible to westbound I-90 travelers. The Spokesman-Review reports the construction, which is scheduled to finish in fall 2019, will connect two important habitats in the Price Creek area near mile marker 62...

A woman is recovering from burns she received in a car fire that happened Saturday morning at the Cascade Grocery on Valley Road Northeast. First responders were called out the fire at around 8:15 a.m. Saturday. According the investigators with the Sheriff's office, the woman was smoking a cigarette in the passenger seat of the car while the male driver pumped gas into a garbage can in the back se

Investigators with the Richland Police Department need your help identifying a man in connection with a fraudulent credit card case. Police have surveillance photos of a man who went into the Richland Walmart on Friday, February 16, 2018, at about 11 AM, and made purchases with several cards...