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Yakima County released body camera footage Friday of a Marine pilot moments after ejecting from an F/A-18 that crashed near Rimrock Lake in June — as the Pentagon runs a task force on a wave of similar non-combat aviation mishaps.

The carrier is coming home after a 266-day deployment marked by a mental-health crisis the Navy spent months denying. Separately, its own admiral says its next homeport will likely be Bremerton.

Krista Perez led incumbent Rep. Melanie Morgan by 380 votes in Washington's 29th District primary when her pickup struck five parked cars in Tacoma, triggering a DUI charge with a breath-test refusal enhancement.

The Washington Department of Commerce denied Bainbridge Island's request for more time on a state housing mandate, forcing an emergency zoning vote by Aug. 25 or risking the Builder's Remedy, which lets developers bypass city zoning outright.

A Seattle judge finalized an injunction forcing the CFTC-licensed prediction market to geofence Washington users out of sports, election and 'mentions' contracts, part of a five-state legal fight over whether states can regulate event contracts at all.

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.