The National Weather Service urged holiday travelers to heed their warnings about a winter storm that was expected to bring snow to the mountain passes starting Saturday night and could drop snow on the metro areas by Sunday into next week

Environmental groups are hailing a decision by the Biden administration to resume studying whether grizzly bears should be restored to the remote North Cascades mountains in Washington state

The National Weather Service in Seattle says an atmospheric river is bringing strong to damaging winds, heavy rain and some snow for western Washington and Oregon starting Thursday evening

A Washington city's dress code ordinance that says “bikini baristas” must cover their bodies at work has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court

Big ships entering and leaving Puget Sound will be asked to slow down to reduce underwater noise this fall in an effort to help the Pacific Northwest's critically endangered orca whales

A Montana resident hiking in Washington state was rescued after he became trapped under a refrigerator-sized boulder

Olympic National Park officials have closed recreational fishing indefinitely because waters have reached historic lows

A respite center for families in the United States who have lost loved ones in combat since 9/11 will open Friday on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula

Emergency management officials say six of the 10 victims in a floatplane crash in Puget Sound have been recovered and five have been identified