Washington state's winter weather woes continue with rain replacing snow as the major culprit.

A third union is suing Gov. Chris Gregoire because her proposed budget doesn't include money to pay for a new labor contract.

The Seattle Seahawks have signed six players to futures contracts, four of whom were on their practice squad at the end of this season.

A substitute teacher who worked in Bremerton and Central Kitsap schools has been charged with first-degree child molestation.

Police accuse a teenage girl of murdering her baby boy.
They also accuse her father of dumping the infant in the garbage.

Police say a man died a two-alarm fire that swept through an aging eight-unit apartment building Saturday morning, sending a thick column of smoke wafting over Everett's downtown.

The first 25 gold-star license plates in Washington state have been unveiled at the Capitol. They're available to the parents of people who died while in the armed services.

The first initiative campaign of 2009 is already getting started.

Seven Spokane Fire Department trucks and hazardous materials crews were sent to a commercial building Friday morning after an entire roof collapse resulted in the threat of a gas leak.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a bird strike caused the 2007 crash of a University of North Dakota airplane that killed two people.

Heavy snow kept one of Washington's three main east-west mountain passes closed Friday and again made commuting miserable in Spokane on the first work day of the new year.

Thurston County's insurer has abandoned further appeals of a jury's 2006 verdict that three former county prosecutors were forced to endure a hostile work environment and suffered retaliation after they complained about their treatment.

Snow and a high threat of avalanches prompted officials to close the three main east-west mountain passes in Washington state on New Year's Day and two of the highways were expected to remain shut down into Friday.

A 24-year-old woman killed by an ice slide near Crystal Mountain has been identified as Megan Kinsella of Redmond, Wash.

Washington's three main east-west mountain passes have been closed by snow and avalanche danger but highway crews are working to get Snoqualmie Pass reopened soon.

Two men are dead after a pair of avalanches at Canada's Whistler ski resort.

The Washington Department of Transportation says the state's three main east-west mountain passes have been closed by snow and avalanche danger and are likely to remain so into Friday.

The face of a Sunnyside teen who donated his organs after dying in a car crash will be featured on a float in the Rose Parade.

The gloomy economy and a record snowstorm top the list of Washington state news stories in 2008.

Apple industry icon, Tom Mathison, founder of Stemilt Growers, has died of cancer at age 82.

The marketing manager of the state Liquor Control Board says sales seem to be recession proof.

The committee planning the governor's inaugural ball says it has sold 5,000 tickets for the black-tie event Jan. 14 in the Capitol.

The union for rank and file workers in the state Ecology Department says their pay increased 28 percent over the past eight years, compared with a 42 percent raise for middle managers.

Two former Washington State University students have been charged with arson for a series of fires set on campus.

Washington state got a new governor over the weekend - at least for a little while.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a Washougal man was properly awarded more than $1.5 million after he was bitten in 2003 by a Kennewick police dog.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for much of Western Washington. Forecasters are expecting more snow in the mountains and rain in the lowlands and urban and small stream flooding.

Amazon.com Inc. says the 2008 holiday season was the online retailer's "best ever." Amazon says more than 6.3 million items were ordered and 5.6 million units shipped during its peak day on Dec. 15.

Christmas Day was the second morning Vancouver, Wash., couple Tom and Kristina Waltz and their two daughters awoke at O'Hare International Airport. Days of flight delays and cancellations have marred their holiday travel plans.

A large portion of the room of an Olympia high school has collapsed.