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FOX 13 Meteorologist Abby Acone takes a look at the wildfires burning in the Pacific Northwest and what that means for our smoke and air quality forecast.

There have been rumors and rumblings around Dave & Busters coming to Eastern Washington, including several rumors of one coming to Yakima that started last year. Happy to say that Eastern Washington is finally slated to get the ever-popular Dave & Busters. If you're not familiar, think of it like...

Representatives from Washington state and British Columbia are exploring how they can collaborate in developing and growing the hydrogen economy in their respective jurisdictions, according to a news release Monday from study participants in each country. Billed as a first-of-its-kind study, it involves Pacific NorthWest Economic Region, or PNWER, working...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The public is invited to attend a Celebration of Life ceremony for former Washington Congressman George Nethercutt at Gonzaga today. 

THE DALLES, Ore. (KTVZ) – Residents west of the Columbia Gorge town of Mosier were told to evacuate Monday as the fast-moving Microwave Tower Fire burned eastward, driven by strong westerly winds of 30 to 35 miles per hour. The areas included:. LEVEL 3 - GO NOW! Evacuate immediately...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Millions of acres of national forest lands across Oregon and Washington are continuing to see record-breaking dry timber conditions on both sides of the Cascades, the U.S. Forest Service said Tuesday. These critical conditions are spurring rapid wildfire growth from recent lightning storms, including the July...

The “Lars Larson Show: Criminal Alien of the Week Report” in the third week of July 2024 has for your radio listeners and webpage followers a report on a foreign national illegally present in the country who was charged, convicted and sentenced for drug trafficking in a U.S. District Court in the state of Washington.

LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — This year marks 30 years since multiple wildfires ravaged across Washington state, destroying dozens of homes and forcing evacuations across the state. Now, in that same area, current residents are battling their own fight against fires. The year 1994 started with major drought. After a hot...

Northwest Association for Blind Athletes (NWABA) has announced that Kim Hash has joined the organization as the new Director of Philanthropy. With an extensive background in nonprofit fundraising and a deep personal connection to the mission, Hash brings a wealth of experience and passion to the role. “I have long...

Nonprofit organizations that provide social and human services in Oregon and southwest Washington can now apply for The Oregonian/OregonLive’s 2024 Season of Sharing campaign. The Season of Sharing fundraising campaign is overseen each year by Oregonian Publishing Co. Public Benefits, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, which distributes the money collected and...

PEARL, Miss. — The Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) deployed a twenty-person Type 2 Initial Attack Hand Crew to assist with wildfire suppression efforts on the Cougar Creek Fire in southeast Washington State. Officials will release the crew’s names upon their safe return to Mississippi in approximately two weeks. The fire spans 8,271 acres and is twenty-three percent contained.

Deer population size was more affected by habitat quality and cougar presence. A growing wolf population in Washington state isn’t having a big effect on white-tailed deer numbers there. Human persecution caused wolves to become extirpated from the state in the 1930s. But the canids returned as a result of conservation efforts by the early 2000s. Since then, populations have grown. Researchers wondered how white-tailed deer, the wolves’ primary prey, has responded. In a study published in Ecological Applications, researchers radio-collared white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), wolves (Canis lupus), cougars (Puma concolor), coyotes (Canis latrans) and bobcats (Lynx rufus) from 2016-2021 and noted body condition, age, whether females were pregnant, and causes of mortalities. The team found that deer were stable or slightly declining, but the reason was not wolves. The biggest factor responsible for the deer population size was habitat quality, followed by cougar presence. “Studies like this provide valuable insights about the complexity of these systems and how managing predator and prey populations is challenging and dynamic,” said co-author of the study Melia DeVivo, a research scientist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. “It’s important to continue evaluating these systems to understand the impacts of management decisions. Prior to this study, one might have expected that relying solely on wolf management strategies would result in a booming deer population, when it is clearly more complex than that.”

Foreign guest or H-2A workers at Washington’s tree-fruit orchards will get paid more under a federal court ruling issued earlier this month, in the latest development in a yearslong court battle over how foreign agricultural workers are paid. Under the ruling from the U.S. District Court in Seattle in...

Less than half of Washington residents eligible for a tax credit aimed at low-income working families received it last year — the first year it was available.  Still, the state met its goal of reaching at least 40% of those eligible for the Working Families Tax Credit, according to a recent Department of Revenue report. […] The post Thousands of low-income WA families qualify for a tax credit they aren’t claiming appeared first on Washington State Standard.

Cooler air from off the coast has invaded the North Sound and Western Washington, providing some relief from the heat. High temperatures this week will range from the mid-60s into the 70s, rather than the high temperatures we saw between the 80s and even the 90s earlier this month. Yet,...

Quite the incident happened near the 9400 block of Ray Grade Rd. in Snohomish County over the weekend. Reports came in to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Department and Washington State Fish and Wildlife for a 10-foot-long ferocious man-eating gator! Was it really painted as a ferocious man-eating monster? Probably not, but I'd like to think so. This call came in for this 10-foot gator, and people were very freaked out. The Snohomish County Sheriff and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife were aware of the sighting, and they made a post about it on social media. That post was shared hundreds of times. When sheriffs and wildlife officials arrived, they were shocked to see it wasn't a gator at all.