57+ min ago   (389+ words) Firefighting crews on Thursday continued to make progress fighting the Backbone Fire in East Lewis County, according to a joint statement from the Washington state Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and U.S. Department of the Interior. The fire, located…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (243+ words) Firefighting crews on Tuesday continued suppression efforts at the site of the Backbone Fire in East Lewis County, according to a joint statement from the Washington state Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and U.S. Department of the Interior. The…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (809+ words) Three wildfires across the state have burned more than 100,000 acres each, as Washington has already endured the third-worst fire season in the past 20 years, with roughly two months still to go. More than 720,000 acres, or 1,125 square miles, have burned this…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (632+ words) The London Bridge was in Chehalis Thursday, made of cardboard and popsicle sticks. And though it collapsed under 100-gram weights and a bag of coins, its builders — Karina Lei, Vivianna Blankinship and Sophie Swehosky — were all smiles, as were the…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (265+ words) Despite the efforts of over a thousand firefighters, the 513,437-acre Big Grass fire grew by over 70,000 acres, pushing it even closer to being the largest wildfire in Oregon history. The current record holder — the 2012 Long Draw Fire — clocked in at…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (653+ words) New evacuations were issued, and existing ones expanded, Friday night for the Little Giant Fire, while a state fire mobilization was authorized Saturday morning. Level 3 evacuations — go now — were issued for the Entiat Valley, affecting Entiat River Road (Forest Service…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (379+ words) After layers of wildfire smoke hovered over Seattle for days, the city saw blue skies Saturday — and the fresh air should stick around into next week. The weather in the Seattle area is set to clear up next week due…...

1+ week, 4+ min ago   (1241+ words) In the shadow of Mount St. Helens this week, a group of middle school girls and ecological experts had private dance parties and studied volcanoes within view of the mountain's infamous crater. On Monday morning, 20 middle school girls, four high…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (419+ words) The humpback whale was disentangled about 20 miles off the Oregon Coast, outside of Newport, after a multi-agency effort involving researchers, trained responders, the U.S. Coast Guard and a local commercial fisherman, according to NOAA. Another humpback whale washed ashore dead on…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (332+ words) Less than a week after devastating fires destroyed hundreds of homes in Spokane County, the National Weather Service has again issued a red flag warning for much of Eastern Washington over strong wind gusts and dry conditions forecast for the…...