Washington

The shooting of a Black man by Washington state authorities threatens to increase tensions around Portland, Oregon, where protesters against racial injustice have clashed repeatedly with right-wing groups in recent months

Crews in Blaine, Washington, vacuumed Murder Hornets out of a nest housed within a large tree.

Heavily protected crews in Washington state have worked to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States.

The family of a Washington state professor last seen hiking in Mount Rainier National Park two weeks ago is pleading with officials to continue the active search for the man, NBC News reports.

Scientists in Washington state have discovered the first nest of so-called murder hornets in the United States and plan to wipe it out Saturday to protect native honeybees.

Evidence of six sightings of Asian giant hornets, known as murder hornets, in Washington state have prompted an urgent search for a possible nest, NBC News reports. State agriculture officials are working to find and destroy a nest before the hornets enter their “slaughter phase,” when they kill honeybees, which are crucial for pollinating some of the state’s staple crops,...

Relief from putrid, dangerous air spewing from massive wildfires across the West won’t come until later in the week or beyond, scientists and forecasters say, and the hazy and gunk-filled skies might stick around for even longer.

California, Oregon and Washington state are seeing historic wildfires that have burned faster and farther than ever before, and blanketed large swaths of the U.S. with thick smoke. In California, wildfires have destroyed over 4,000 buildings and engulfed 3.3 million acres of land – an area greater in size than the state of Connecticut. Oregon and Washington have been hit…

Stunned residents of a small Oregon town are getting their first look at the devastation from one of the state’s many wildfires after flames wiped out much of their community

Seattle police have retreated to a precinct as a declared riot winded down in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood near where weeks earlier people had set up an “occupied protest zone” that stretched for several blocks

Authorities in suburban Seattle have identified a police officer shot and killed after a brief vehicle pursuit

Washington’s NFL team announced on Monday that they will be changing their team name and logo after corporate sponsors urged them to drop the old name, which is a racist slur.

North Korea is reiterating it has no immediate plans to resume nuclear negotiations with the United States unless Washington discards what it describes as “hostile” polices toward Pyongyang

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

At least one person was wounded, police said, in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

A lost sea lion took over a road in Washington state, and it took multiple agencies an hour to get it off land and back into the water.

NBC LX Storyteller Chase Cain was there when Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Browser had “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street that leads to the White House and later announced the area had been renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

A Fox News reporter was attacked and chased away by protesters outside of the White House early Saturday

The Washington State Potato Commission looked to give away 200,000 pounds of potatoes to those in need in Tacoma, Washington.