Leavenworth News

A man who was sleeping in the back of his pickup truck when it was stolen in Olympia is worried about his cat that was also in the truck.

Two people were injured about 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in a two-car accident at the intersection of Highway 2 and Main Street at Peshastin.

The Washington State Farmers Market Association has named Ballard as the Best Large Market of the Year for 2011.

Cosmopolitan magazine founder Helen Gurley Brown is donating $30 million to Stanford and Columbia universities to create a bicoastal media innovation laboratory, the universities and Hearst Corp.

This past weekend, I had the unique opportunity to address two groups of medical students -- the first via a video conference with student leaders who were meeting halfway across the country in Leawood, Kan., and the second by participating in the Washington AFP Foundation's Student and Resident Retreat in Leavenworth, Wash.