Follow this company is planning to open a retail boutique in Seattle, where it will sell Kindle e-readers and Kindle Fire tablets, as well as e-books and Kindle...

A Pierce County sheriff’s deputy and his wife are suing a Gig Harbor pharmacy, claiming it twice gave their son incorrect dosages of medicine that made him very...

Nancy Reedy-Elstrom is facing foreclosure and short sale of her Marysville home. She didn't realize her husband's retirement money would stop after his death and she can no longer afford...

Nearly half of all single-family homes sales last year in Snohomish County was either a short sale or foreclosure, according to Washington Property Solutions, a short sale negotiating company based...

That's the goal for six police departments in the south and east Snohomish County area. Police leaders in Lynnwood, Edmonds, Mountlake Terrace, Monroe, Bothell and Lake Forest Park have been...

Of those 35 schools, Kamiak High School earned an overall excellence award, something given to just 5 percent of schools in the state. The achievement award program started a few years ago when the...

Lake Stevens Family Center is expanding and plans to open a branch in Snohomish as early as this spring. It will be called Family Support Snohomish, and before it can begin providing services it...

Boeing Bluebills --150 retired Boeing employees and their families -- contacted Snohomish last week to let the city know they're ready to help. The city and the Pilchuck Audubon Society want to...

LYNNWOOD -- Those who practice and teach yoga can talk endlessly about the physical and mental health benefits it offers, such as melting stress and stretching stiff...

Teens can create a special Valentine at the Mukilteo Library at 3:30 p.m. Thursday. Decorate a tiny matchbox and slide it open to reveal a picture of your Valentine. Bring a small picture -- 1 inch...

The Sumner School District Early Learning Department will host Block Fest in conjunction with the District Science Fair and Art Show. The program, for children 8 months to 8 years, teaches math and...

The Bethel School District has rescheduled three school days, to replace those lost due to bad weather in January. The school make-up days will be May 25, June 15 and June 18 – the new last day...

The Pierce County Skills Center will host an open house Feb. 15 from 6-8 p.m. at the center, 16117 Canyon Road E. Students interested in attending the center next fall will have the opportunity to...

Heritage Christian School will host an open house Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. Parents and students are invited to tour the school at 5412 67th Ave. W., meet with teachers and visit...

Jim Delisle, a nationally recognized expert on gifted education, will give a talk next week in Tacoma, "Parenting Precocious Kids: Understanding the Ups and Downs of Growing Up...

The royal court of the annual Daffodil Festival was given its first public introduction at Saturday’s Princess Promenade in...

Danielle Twichel, 15, works on a delicate clay turtle figure at her Milton home. Twichel has expressed herself through art since she was a little...

The Semiahmoo Lighthouse was an attractive, Victorian-style lighthouse perched on a platform in Semiahmoo Bay between 1905 and 1944. Located near the entrance to Blaine's Drayton Harbor, the...

Bellingham timber framer Jackson DuBois couldn't resist the opportunity to work six days a week in Poland hewing logs for a history project that warmed his heart as much as it warmed his...

MAC hoursThe MAC Exhibit Center, 175 W. Cedar St. in Sequim, is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.Call the MAC Exhibit Center, 360-683-8110, or visit www.macsequim.org. By...

Border Patrol Agent in Charge Jay Cumbow discusses his new North Olympic Peninsula assignment at his office in Port Angeles. -- Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily...

OLYMPIA — A proposal to split management of Fort Worden State Park between the state and the local Port Townsend Public Development Authority will still be pursued even though there’ll be...

PORT ANGELES — Plans are in the works to decommission the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe’s first fish hatchery.The hatchery, built in 1978, was replaced by a new one last May as part of the...

MOUNT VERNON — The Peninsula College men’s basketball team hit the century mark again in slaying the Skagit Valley Cardinals 104-92 on Saturday night.The Pirates staked claim to an early...

Now is the time to nominate your local hero.We are looking for people who make a difference in Jefferson County — individuals who have made our communities a better place.The three Rotary Clubs...

SEATTLE — A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck about 105 miles west of Ucluelet off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on Saturday.A National Earthquake Information Center...

Seattle has been working behind the scenes the past eight months with a hedge-fund manager to bring an NBA team back to town - possibly as early as next fall if the Sacramento Kings fail to get a...

One by one, they added to the growing memorial. About 50 people gathered Sunday night at Carson Elementary School in Puyallup for a vigil to remember Charlie and Braden Powell. Charlie was in first...

Mark and Pam Figliola place flowers and a card at a candle-light memorial for the two sons of Josh Powell and Susan Cox, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, at Carson Elementary School in Puyallup, Wash. (AP...

the blog Good E-Reader reports , citing ';sources close to the situation.'; The site asserts that the store will focus on selling Kindle e-readers, the Kindle Fire tablet, and related...

Seattle city officials are talking with a wealthy San Francisco financier about building a new arena and luring a relocated NBA team, documents indicate. E-mails exchanged between key aides of...

The smoldering remains of a house, left, where an explosion killed Josh Powell and his two sons, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, is shown from the air in Graham, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S....

TACOMA, Washington -- A house explosion on Sunday killed the father and two boys involved a bitter custody dispute near Tacoma, Washington, authorities said, two years after the family's mother...

GRAHAM, Wash. (AP) -- Authorities say the husband of a missing Utah woman intentionally set his home on fire Sunday, producing a scorching blaze that killed him and his two...

SEATTLE (AP) -- State authorities can expect tough questions about whether more might have been done to protect the children of a missing Utah woman who were killed along with their father when...

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Three people, including two boys, were killed in a home explosion Sunday afternoon in the U.S. state of Washington. The explosion happened around 12:30 p.m. local...

SEATTLE - Police have launched a homicide investigation after a 25-year-old man who was shot during a melee early Sunday outside a SoDo nightclub died from his injuries.Two other people were injured...

SEATTLE (AP) - Anthony Dias is the poster boy for why police and prosecutors hope Washington will join a growing number of states that require people to give DNA samples as soon as they're...

SEATTLE - It was an emotional morning for Coast Guard family members as their loved ones returned home from an extra-long deployment aboard the Coast Guard icebreaker Healy.Crew members were back...

A house explosion on Sunday killed the father and two boys involved a bitter custody dispute near Tacoma, Washington, authorities said, two years after the family’s mother...

The city turned over the documents to The Seattle Times on Friday under a public records request. The documents included the agenda for a meeting between the parties on Dec. 13, with topics including...