Sources: BBC KING-TV
Four people are killed over Snohomish County, Washington, United States, as a Cessna 208B disintegrates in mid-air. 2022-11-19
A student is killed in a shooting at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Washington, United States. 2022-11-8
One person is killed and nine others are missing after a floatplane crashes in the Puget Sound near Seattle, Washington, United States. 2022-09-5
Washington reports their first cases of the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in two people residing in Snohomish County. 2021-01-23
A family of seven people who lost their homes during the Labor Day fires in the state tests positive for COVID-19. 2020-10-1
U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, in response to politicians' criticism that proposed changes to U.S. mail services could slow the handling of mail-in ballots, suspends all mail service changes until after the November election. He also said there will be no changes to retail hours at post offices, mail collection boxes will remain where they are, and no mail processing facilities will be closed. A number of states, including Washington and New York, said they are planning legal moves to block the Postal Service changes. 2020-08-18
Eight people are shot, one fatally, following a dispute outside a McDonald's in downtown Seattle, Washington. 2020-01-22
A Federal District Judge for Eastern Pennsylvania temporarily enjoins the Trump administration from implementing new rules that change the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. California, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Virginia and Washington have also sued the federal government over the rules. 2017-12-15
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
Xi Jinping begins his first visit to the United States as President of the People's Republic of China, meeting with technology company leaders and representatives in Seattle, Washington. 2015-09-22