BNSF Railway implemented a "permit embargo" to control movement of export grain shipments to backed-up seaports in the Pacific Northwest, after heavy rains slowed ship loadings.

The view from State Route 281, a few miles south of Quincy, Wash., doesn't seem like one of the world's more dramatic landscapes.

Two ocean beaches will open next week for the next razor clam dig. Twin Harbors will open for late-evening digs Wednesday through Nov.

A two-alarm fire destroyed a Kalama building that houses a market and a seafood restaurant on Sunday, officials said.

Continued weakness in consumer spending will help drain another $238 million from Washington's government checkbook and push the state budget further into the red over the next two years, officials said Thursday.

KALAMA, Wash. A brand new wine bottle plant will shut down, taking with it nearly 100 good-paying jobs, a huge economic hit for an already struggling community in Southwest Washington.

A company that makes wine bottles has shut down its plant at the Port of Kalama.

Monday's adventure began by traveling to the city of Kalama , WA to explore the location of the exterior high school scenes from the movie "Twilight". The "high school" itself is part of a campus containing all the elementary, middle and high school buildings.

Washington state is applying for $1 billion in federal stimulus money to pay for high-speed rail projects.

Washington state is applying for $1 billion in federal stimulus money to pay for high-speed rail projects.

A company that had planned to build an ethanol manufacturing plant in Longview now wants to build a facility that would burn wood waste to produce electricity.

Nisqually tribe members and history buffs celebrated Washington's roots Sunday at the site of one of the first European trading posts in the Puget Sound area, in DuPont.

During the Bush administration, many within the dominant culture expressed concern about the constitutionality of detaining several hundred alleged enemy combatants in Guantanamo.

Whenever legal restrictions on abortion are proposed, many express doubt about the constitutionality of interjecting government between patients and their doctors.

But those voices have been mostly silent about the constitutionality of empowering the federal government with decisions over the life, death, and health of three hundred million Americans.

A 65-year-old Kalama man has been accused of rigging a rental home with hidden cameras and building a “secret viewing area” to spy on people for sexual gratification.

The fall chinook and coho seasons are still to come, but after a lackluster start it's shaping up as a good year for fish returns to the Columbia River.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a health-care overhaul should include a government-run insurance program, reiterating her backing for the plan after an administration official suggested the president may back down.

First, they say it's completely voluntary. It's voluntary like All State car insurance is voluntary. I don't have to buy from All State, but I'd better get something right?

Suppose I decide to buy my own health insurance, I still end up paying for this system anyway don't I? I am in essence paying twice, maybe more, for insurance. How is that fair?,

Local Democrats and Republicans will settle it once and for all. Not at the ballot box, but on the softball diamond.

WOODLAND, Wash. Four people were injured, one of them critically, after a police chase ended in a crash in Woodland Tuesday morning.

An ad campaign featured on a U.S. Army website seeking those who would be interested in being an "Internment/Resettlement" specialist is raising alarms across the country, generating concerns that there is some truth in those theories about domestic detention camps, a roundup of dissidents and a crackdown on "threatening" conservatives.