Last year Kathy Kershner received a campaign contribution of almost $20,000 when she ran for Whatcom County Council. Yet when Speaker of...

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An Iraqi refugee who works as an interpreter with World Relief is encouraged to apply for a job as a caseworker helping other arriving Arabic-speaking refugees, but then is told he doesn't qualify after all because he's not a Christian.

Replacing Seattle Center's outdated Fun Forest with a 44,000-square-foot exhibit space for famed local glass artist Dale Chihuly reopens a decades-long debate about how the Center can reinvent itself and pay its way.

These Washington lotteries were drawn on Tuesday:

The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Daily Game" game were:

Environmentalists seeking to clean up Puget Sound may be on the verge of a major political victory, with a proposal to boost the state's hazardous-substances tax to deal with polluted stormwater gaining traction in the closing days of the legislative session. The push comes despite new petroleum-industry threats to sue the state and invalidate the hazardous-substances tax, created by a voter initiative more than two decades ago.

The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Match 4" game were:

The winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Keno" game were:

About 40 ground searchers plus Coast Guard and Washington National Guard aircraft on Tuesday completed another day of looking for a 24-year-old Portland woman missing on a hike near Bonneville Dam. The search will resume Wednesday.