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A magnitude-7.4 earthquake killed more than 100 people in Colombia and was felt in three countries. Here's what happened, and why the Cascadia Subduction Zone under Puget Sound is the reason it matters here too.

Burglaries, car thefts and robberies all dropped double digits in Kitsap County's new 2025 crime report. The Sheriff's Office says one number worries them more than any that fell.

A fire-gutted Portland warehouse with no internal frame left has kept Amtrak Cascades trains off the tracks between Seattle and Portland for eight days, with Union Pacific's own restart attempt stalled and a demolition deadline now driving both the rail timeline and a possible-remains investigation.

Trump signed two narrower executive orders restricting birthright citizenship on Aug. 6. Washington, Oregon, Arizona and Illinois are challenging them in the same Seattle federal court that first blocked his broader 2025 order.

A massive overnight barrage struck 22 sites near Odesa and killed at least seven people across Ukraine and Russia. The same day, reporting revealed Ukraine is buying 70 American ATACMS missiles through Turkey — a workaround for direct US aid that ended under the Trump administration.

A 24-year-old Seattle man is charged with vehicular homicide after driving the wrong way on I-90 near George, killing two 23-year-old women. Washington has the nation's highest rate of fatal wrong-way crashes, and the rural stretch where it happened has none of the state's new detection technology.

A wind-driven wildfire near Malden grew to nearly 2,000 acres Saturday, triggering a Level 3 evacuation of a town that lost 80% of its homes to the 2020 Babb Road Fire and has rebuilt barely a fifth of them since.

The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill through Dec. 11 on a 90-6 vote, but the House already passed a different one through Dec. 4 without the new provisions, leaving a fourth shutdown fight unresolved before Sept. 30.