Sources: BBC KING-TV
The Pacific Northwest of the United States experiences an atmospheric river, with record-breaking rainfall reported in Washington and Oregon. One person is killed by flooding in Portland, Oregon. 2023-12-5
Six people are killed and three others are injured in a car crash in Tacoma, Washington, United States. 2023-07-16
Four people are killed over Snohomish County, Washington, United States, as a Cessna 208B disintegrates in mid-air. 2022-11-19
The Boeing 777X completes its first test flight near Seattle, Washington, United States, after two delayed attempts. 2020-01-25
Eight people are shot, one fatally, following a dispute outside a McDonald's in downtown Seattle, Washington. 2020-01-22
A U.S. federal judge in Hawaii, finding the revised federal immigration-refugee executive order violates the U.S. Constitution's religious establishment clause, grants the state of Hawaii's motion for a nationwide temporary restraining order on these rules that were set to become effective at midnight. President Donald Trump vows to appeal this ruling. Two other federal courts held hearings on similar requests filed by the states of Maryland and Washington; neither of these judges issued a ruling. 2017-03-15
Notable propositions are passed in several states including legal recreational marijuana in California, Massachusetts, and Nevada; medical marijuana in Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota; tougher firearms restrictions in California and Washington state; physician assisted suicide in Colorado, and the reimposition of capital punishment in Nebraska. 2016-11-9
A landslide kills two people, and injures six in Oso, Washington, United States. 2014-03-22
Seventeen people are arrested at a protest organised by the Service Employees International Union trying to storm the Governor of the US state of Washington's office in Olympia. [http:--www.theolympian.com-2011-04-07-1608368-fifteen-arrested-in-budget-protests.html ("The Olympian")]date=August 2019 2011-04-7
All 3 dead in US small plane crash in southwest Washington state, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Morton. 2010-10-26