Sources: CNN
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
Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States. 2024-10-21
Three people are killed in a shooting at a Circle K store in Yakima, Washington, United States. The gunman later commits suicide in another location. 2023-01-24
An attack on an electrical substation in Pierce County, Washington, United States, cuts off power to 14,000 people. The perpetrators and motive of the attack are unknown. 2022-12-25
A student is killed in a shooting at Ingraham High School in Seattle, Washington, United States. 2022-11-8
Washington becomes the first U.S. state to legalize human composting, the right to allow people to have their body turned into soil after death. The process is seen as an alternative to traditional cremations and burials. 2019-05-21
Effective midnight, Washington, D.C. joins Alaska, Colorado, and Washington state as the only places in the United States that locally purport to override federal law and allow the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. 2015-02-26
An EA-6B Prowler military plane crashes about 50 miles west of Spokane, Washington, United States, and kills three American Navy crew members. 2013-03-11
A bouncer is critically injured and a woman is also wounded after a gunman opens fire in a bar in the Central District of Seattle, Washington, United States. The perpetrator was killed by authorities. 2013-01-28
All 3 dead in US small plane crash in southwest Washington state, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Morton. 2010-10-26