A fire at the Sea-Tac Airport parking garage Tuesday morning destroyed at least eight cars and damaged another 10 with heat and smoke, causing an estimated $250,000 in losses, spokesman Perry Cooper said. No one was injured, but some travelers …
Federal jurors in Seattle, Wash., have awarded $3.45 million to the estate and survivors of a woman who drowned in 2010 while working on a ship conversion. The Seattle Times reports the jurors found the ship’s owner, G Shipping Ltd., …
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a measure to cap tow truck fees. Under the measure signed into law Tuesday, tow truck companies could charge up to about $270 to tow a vehicle and impound it for half …
Motorists know they’re not alone on the most rural and isolated stretches of the state’s highway system. Deer, elk, cougars and black bears all roam places otherwise relatively untouched, save for the highways where drivers speed through. But those scenic …
Becca and Jason Keen Cunningham are careful parents. They got Mr. Yuk stickers from the Washington Poison Center and put them on anything that might be poisonous to drink, even though the cabinets are locked. They covered outlets, bought side-impact …
The Washington Dept. of Labor & Industries completed a four-month investigation into the cause of a serious escalator malfunction at Bellevue Square on Dec. 6, 2012 that injured seven people. The agency found that a loose skirt panel next to …
Three Northwest universities share a $625,000 National Science Foundation grant to train educators from Washington and Oregon coastal communities about earthquake and tsunami dangers. Oregon State University receives $315,000 as the lead institution, with $194,000 going to Central Washington University …
A Tacoma, Wash., couple received jail time and will have to reimburse the state more than $200,000 after they both filed fraudulent workers’ compensation claims in 2009. Jaime Beroth, 63, and her husband Lawrence Beroth, 67, were sentenced this week …
A Tacoma, Wash., woman received a 90-day jail term and must pay restitution after pleading guilty to first degree theft charges for fraudulently billing the Department of Labor & Industries for language interpretive services she never provided. Under terms of …
Workers are dismantling a 65-foot-long dock from the Japanese tsunami that washed ashore on a remote beach on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. A spokeswoman for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Keeley Belva, said Tuesday they are making progress. The Peninsula …