
Washington State Falls to High Point 83-71
Lazerek Houston scored a game-high 31 points, but Washington State dropped its second straight game to open the season.

Lazerek Houston scored a game-high 31 points, but Washington State dropped its second straight game to open the season.
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Live Poll
Should the government fund research to protect honeybees that pollinate our food?
Washington State University researchers and H4Bees found a powdered supplement increased honeybee colony numbers compared with a control group.

Live Poll
Do you plan to carry snow chains when driving over mountain passes this winter?
Washington State Patrol troopers will conduct a two-day emphasis patrol on I-90 over Snoqualmie Pass on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Washington wildlife officials set November 7 through 11 digs as toxin-closed Long Beach and Twin Harbors stay off limits.
Filmmaker Adam Rehmeier directs the thriller, which begins production in Washington State in January 2027.

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Have you taken steps to prepare for this weekend's strong winds and possible outages?
National Weather Service Seattle has issued a gale warning and wind advisory for western Washington through early Sunday.

Coverage on this page runs across the legislature and the governor's office, statewide elections, the courts and the technology and aerospace industries that make Washington one of the country's most economically concentrated states. Reporting extends through Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma and Vancouver and the agricultural communities of Eastern Washington and the coastal cities along Puget Sound. The concentration of major technology and aerospace employers in the Puget Sound region means that corporate decisions made by a small number of firms can shift the state's tax base, housing market and political landscape in ways that ripple across the entire state. The divide between the wet, urban western side of the Cascades and the drier, more agricultural east is both a geographic and political fault line that runs through most contested statewide debates.