One big winner for $300,000 Hit 5 prize
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- One winning ticket was sold for the $300,000 jackpot in Saturday night's drawing in the Washington State Lottery's Hit 5 game....
Two killed in float plane crash on Lake Chelan
STEHEKIN, Wash. (AP) -- Two people were killed Saturday when a float plane carrying five people crashed into Lake Chelan near the remote resort community of Stehekin in the North Cascades....
Scientists in Canada dig up skeleton of blue whale
TIGNISH, Prince Edward Island (AP) -- The bones of a massive blue whale that died 20 years ago off Canada's Prince Edward Island are being laid bare in a unique project to preserve one of the largest creatures ever to live on Earth....
Hot weather brings flood hazards to Inland Northwest
CATALDO, Idaho (AP) -- Anxious communities watched as near-record high temperatures hastened snow melt that swelled rivers across the Inland Northwest over the weekend....
Heat raises PNW avalanche danger, boy injured, road closed
SEATTLE (AP) -- Record hot weather has boosted the avalanche danger in much of the Pacific Northwest with slides closing at least one highway and injuring a teenager in Oregon....
How Washington's ferry system got into a mess with no easy fix in sight
The agency's future is uncertain. It's running short of money and could face a $1 billion shortfall over the next 16 years. Lawmakers say the ferry system will have to become leaner, which ultimately could mean longer waits at the dock.
Sea-Tac's security: Are they serious?
Greg Alderete has more than a passing interest in homeland security. A retired lieutenant colonel in the Army, he has devoted most of his...
Aid agency: Starvation possible for Myanmar's kids
Thousands of children who survived Myanmar's cyclone will starve to death in two to three weeks unless food is rushed to them, an aid agency warned Sunday.
Search for China earthquake survivors bleak
The search for survivors in the rubble of China's powerful earthquake grew bleak Sunday, with rescuers in some areas no longer listening for trapped victims.
Religious hardliners gain in Kuwait
Official results for Kuwait's parliamentary elections show strong gains for Muslim hardliners. But women candidates failed to win a single seat.
Bush urges Mideast leaders to advance democracy
Israel got glowing praise from President Bush earlier this week. On Sunday, the Arab world got a stern lecture, on the need to spread freedoms and isolate state sponsors of terror that he said are holding the region back.
