Washington

Congress has to fund the government for the next fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1 — and it's slow going.

Each October, Palouse turns into a haunted version of itself.

Darryl Madden’s life on a boat started as a simple solution for affordable housing. Now he wouldn’t have it any other way.

We've gathered your stories for a year. Here's what we learned.

The port of Vancouver handles the West Coast's second-largest volume of imported steel, now subject to a 25 percent duty.

Chlorpyrifos has helped protect crops from pests since 1965, but it's also been linked in studies to low-IQ babies and dead fish.

An industry that once defined Camas, Washington, is coming to an end. Now the former mill town is searching for its future identity.

Fish farm break: 150,000 Atlantic salmon escaped into Washington state's Puget Sound in August. Now comes the fallout.

Don't worry, there's no quiz.

The Alcoa aluminum plant laid off hundreds of workers last year. They miss the pay and camaraderie, but say they wouldn't want their kids following them into smelter work.