Snoqualmie Pass News

Starting Thursday, a popular swath of national forest land along the Interstate 90 corridor between North Bend and Snoqualmie Pass will be closed to target shooters for one year, and possibly permanently.

A section of the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest between North Bend and Snoqualmie Pass is being closed to target shooters.

Patrick Haluptzok, left, and Desmond Scanlan slide down a snow field in an avalanche chute along the Source Lake trail hundreds of feet above Snoqualmie Pass.

There'll be more to this Fourth of July weekend than fireworks, barbecues and watermelon; expect sweltering temperatures, traffic delays and high gas prices.

In the first of likely many meetings, state and federal officials met Tuesday with tribal and local elected officials, conservation groups and irrigation districts on how best to improve the water supply in central Washington's arid Yakima Valley.

As an excavator tears cracked panels of concrete from a section of Washington state's most heavily traveled east-west highway, construction worker Jason Antijunti prepares to drive a 16-ton grader over the soon-to-be repaved area.

Another great event that I didn't cover last weekend-the 6 annual Grenways Days celebration, kicked off ,last Sunday, the beginning of the summer with its one day Mountains to Sound Relay -100 miles/5 leg/Snoqualmie Pass to Golden Gardens Park endurance race.This adventure relay is one of the major events that takes place during the Grenways Days ...

What has been a seemingly endless marathon of studies on how best to meet the water needs of farmers, fish and communities in the Yakima River Basin is now a sprint to the finish line.

I spent four days at my sister and brother-in-law's cabin on the Washington-Idaho border.

Former 13th District state Sen. Wanda Hansen of Moses Lake died Friday at a Pasco home care facility.

North Bend Elementary student Jennifer Corgiat was honored Friday, June 12, for her winning artwork and essay in the fifth annual Bridging Futures Art and Essay Contest, held by the Washington Department of Transportation and the Interstate 90 Wildlife Bridges Coalition.

Forest Service officials said as many as 125 people a day are ignoring signs that say the Big Four Ice Caves near Granite Falls are closed.

More Washington drivers hit the road this Memorial Day weekend. The Department of Transportation says the preliminary car count points to a 10% increase from 2008.

This Memorial Day weekend in Seattle will include beautiful weather, festivals and baseball games.

The Memorial Day holiday weekend got off to a nasty start for some travelers headed to Eastern Washington as accidents and congestion snarled traffic going over Snoqualmie Pass.

Hey little girl, where did the years go? How is it possible that you're turning 18 and officially becoming a young woman today? Weren't you just being born? You don't remember May 12, 1991, but I do.

Three to 8 inches of new snow are expected over the west slopes of the Washington Cascades today.

Teri Gildehaus watched a man trying to sweet-talk a swarm of bees from her backyard into a beehive Monday.

The eastbound lanes of I-90 have reopened over Snoqualmie Pass. They were closed near six hours Tuesday morning after a boulder rolled onto the roadway and was hit by a milk tanker truck.

All Eastbound lanes of I-90 are closed right now and will stay that way for hours after an overnight rockslide.