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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

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 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

The Seattle City Council unanimously votes to give Uber, Lyft, and other contract drivers the power to join trade unions. The Washington city becomes the first in the United States to do so. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray opposes the bill which can still become law without his signature. Court challenges are expected.
2015-12-14

U.S. federal health officials are investigating an outbreak of deadly E. coli bacteria that has sickened 19 people in California, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Preliminary evidence suggests that rotisserie chicken salad made and sold in Costco Wholesale stores is the likely source. This follows a totally unrelated outbreak earlier this month connected to Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants. Those restaurants have been cleaned, new ingredients ordered, and have been reopened. The Costco E. coli 157 strain, which has caused five people to be hospitalized- two of which developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS; which can readily lead to acute renal failure and sepsis), is more dangerous than the Chipotle E. coli 026 strain, though there have been no deaths yet.
2015-11-24

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

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