After months of uncertainty, La Niña is officially here. Here’s what it means in western WA
The weather phenomenon was expected to emerge in late 2024 before delay. Officials finally announced that it had arrived ...
Who will helm WA’s health care agencies? Ferguson announces 2 temporary appointments
The governor-elect on Thursday revealed who he has chosen to temporarily lead the Department of Health and the Health Care ...
Four people found dead in South Hill home identified. Two were stabbed, ME reports
The identities of four people who were found dead inside a South Hill home on New Year’s Eve have been released by the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office. William Vosler, 68, died from a stab ...
Poop reveals animal thought locally extinct for decades still visits Hong Kong island
In Hong Kong, Eurasian otters were feared extinct but rediscovered at a nature reserve on the mainland in the 1980s. Ever ...
Patient taken off life support after he was mistaken for someone else, WA lawsuit says
A man was taken off life support after he was mistaken for someone else — his roommate, according to a lawsuit against a ...
Fitness coach from Virginia exploited underage clients to send sexual photos, feds say
For years, the man manipulated teens by mailing them cameras, alcohol, knives and sex-related items as gifts, prosecutors ...
Man injured in fall down hill near Olympic National Park, officials say. See the rescue
A 35-year-old man was injured in a fall near Olympic National Park in Washington, rescuers said. The incident happened Jan. 6 ...
Husband’s green thumb leads woman to huge NC lottery win. ‘I was spinning in circles’
“I was spinning in circles,” Heather Jones told lottery officials after her big win. The Bear Creek woman won $150,000 after ...
Lottery player’s win leaves her ‘screaming at work,’ officials say. ‘Unbelievable’
Shari Hunt-Caldwell, 61, earned her big win by playing the Holiday scratch-off game and entering her non-winning tickets into ...
Lottery player wins big on ticket she bought as ‘pick-me-up’ after relative’s death
Though she doesn’t often buy lottery tickets, she told lottery officials she “thought that a scratch-off might be a nice pick ...
Mom of 7’s killing was mystery for years, until cigarette offered a clue, WA cops say
A 69-year-old man, who was convicted in a separate 2005 killing and is currently serving a life sentence in Arizona, was ...
Looters steal 500-year-old cave painting using electric saw, Mexico officials say
Archaeologists in Mexico responded to a complaint and discovered looters had stolen a historic cave painting that’s at least ...