Sources: Reuters
The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace of the United States issues a report alleging that aerospace manufacturer Boeing, long associated with the Seattle, Washington area, has been relocating much of its engineering work to non-unionized sites both in the US and abroad. 2025-01-22
A student is killed in a shooting at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Washington, United States. 2022-11-8
New Jersey gym owner Scott K. Fairlamb and Washington resident Devlyn D. Thompson pleads guilty to assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officers during the January 6 riot at the Capitol, becoming the first suspects to do so. 2021-08-6
Washington reports that the state has vaccinated more than 70% of people over the age of 16 years. 2021-07-14
Clallam County in Washington reports their first case of the Lineage P.1 Gamma variant in an unvaccinated resident who traveled out of the state. 2021-06-23
Washington (state) reports its first case of the Lineage P.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2, which originated in Brazil. The patient is a person from the King County. 2021-03-11
The governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan, Louisiana, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Washington, and mayors of cities in other states, order the closure of all bars and restaurants and ban gatherings of 50 or more people in their states or cities in response to the pandemic. 2020-03-16
President Barack Obama declares a state of emergency across northeastern and central Washington as the amount of burned land in the state reaches nearly a half-million acres. 2015-08-21
The National Retail Federation worries as products languish on ships and docks at western U.S. ports as negotiations continue between the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association. 2015-02-12
A shooting spree in Moscow, Idaho, U.S., leaves three dead and one injured. After a high-speed chase on Highway 195 ten miles away in the neighboring state of Washington, Pullman police arrest the suspect, John Lee. 2015-01-10