OLYMPIA, Wash. The Washington state Senate has passed a measure to help businesses in the Green River Valley find additional flood coverage.

YAKIMA, Wash. State and federal wildlife officials will begin killing some wild bighorn sheep in the Yakima River Canyon later this month to curb the spread of pneumonia.

OLYMPIA, Wash. A study finds that visitors spent $14.2 billion last year in Washington.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. A man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in Bellingham died by his own hand, not police gunfire.

SPOKANE, Wash. The mild winter in Washington is causing some worry for managers of the state's water supply.

STANWOOD, Wash. When a group of high school welding students decided to offer a class for the community, they never imagined having to turn people away.

SEATTLE The Seattle Art Museum has landed a major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Centrist Democrats frustrated that their ideas and voices are routinely mashed by the Legislature's liberals and conservatives are banding together.

BREMERTON, Wash. Three employees of a Bremerton nursing home have been fired over allegations they took nude cell phone pictures of residents.

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. Ocean Shores Mayor Dean Bunkers is resigning, less than two years into his term.

LONDON A buildup of ice in the fuel lines of a Boeing 777 caused its crash landing at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, an accident investigation concluded Tuesday.

YAKIMA, Wash. Jose Valencia was 14 years old and looking forward to a high school football camp when he was hurt in a rear-end auto crash in 2004.

VANCOUVER, Wash. A Clark County sheriff's deputy found about three-dozen lawn ornament flamingos stolen from the yard of a Vancouver cancer patient.

EVERETT, Wash. Snohomish County has spent more than $87,000 on an e-mail archiving system that was put on hold last year.

YAKIMA, Wash. DNA evidence has led to the arrest of a Montana man in the fatal shooting of his common-law wife in July along Interstate 82.

BLAINE, Wash. The Winter Olympics torch made its only visit to the United States for a ceremony Tuesday at the Peace Arch border crossing in Blaine.

PASCO, Wash. Police are looking for two Pasco men charged with murder in the stabbing death of nightclub bouncer.

SEATTLE A man has been found shot to death in a pickup truck at a gas station near Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

SEATTLE A woman walking along Interstate 5 in south Seattle has been struck and killed by a truck and a car.

OLYMPIA, Wash. No winning tickets were sold for the Washington State Lottery's $6.8 million Lotto jackpot or the $200,000 Hit 5 cashpot Monday night, so prizes will increase to $6.9 million in Lotto and $240,000 in Hit 5.

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. Oregon State Police say a trooper who stopped a car in southern Oregon for several traffic violations found more than a quarter million dollars worth of marijuana neatly packaged in the trunk.

VANCOUVER, Wash. In a Facebook announcement, the family of a 57-year-old Washougal, Wash., man missing since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake says his remains have been identified in the rubble of the collapsed Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince.

SEATTLE A Bellevue business executive charged with lying to a grand jury about strip club sex acts says contacting a stripper who's a witness in the case was a "colossal mistake."

OLYMPIA, Wash. U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks is likely to succeed the late Rep. John Murtha as chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Gov. Chris Gregoire will join British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell for a cross-border Olympic torch ceremony.

FARGO, N.D. Two men from Washington state face felony drug charges in North Dakota after a big drug bust.

SEATTLE Amtrak says it's stepping up security this week on trains operating to Vancouver, British Columbia, because of the Winter Olympics.

BRIDGEPORT, Wash. A 13-year-old girl in Bridgeport told the Douglas County sheriff's office that her fiance had disappeared.

EVERETT, Wash. Boeing Co.'s giant 747-8 freighter - the biggest plane the company has ever built - successfully completed its first flight Monday, a year later than originally planned.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. Someone kicked in doors at three different homes early Monday in Walla Walla.

SPOKANE, Wash. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly failed to make a decision about protecting the rare pygmy rabbit in eight Western states, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court by an environmental group.

SEATTLE Areva, the international energy company based in France, and Charlotte, N.C., based Duke Energy have formed a joint venture to build a biomass energy plant at Shelton.

YAKIMA, Wash. The reasons are as different as the teenagers themselves.

PORTLAND, Ore. The winter forecast for the Bonneville Power Administration is for light snow and possibly even lighter revenue.

LAKE TAPPS, Wash. A burglary suspect who was shot and killed by a Pierce County sheriff's deputy at Lake Tapps has been identified as a 23-year-old Renton man, Ion Ungureanu.

LYNNWOOD, Wash. The Lynnwood City Council will consider ordinances Monday night to tidy up neighborhoods.

YAKIMA, Wash. Four riding horses were shot in a pasture in Yakima County.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Ballots will be counted Tuesday for school elections in Washington.

EVERETT, Wash. The biggest plane Boeing Co. has ever built has taken off on its first flight.

TACOMA, Wash. A brother and sister driving from a family gathering to a friend's house in Tacoma were shot by someone in a white minivan that pulled alongside at an intersection.

SUQUAMISH, Wash. Police say the man wounded by two Suquamish tribal officers has nine felony convictions for drug, burglary and violent offense.

PASCO, Wash. The man stabbed to death outside a Pasco nightclub was a bouncer.

MOUNT VERNON, Wash. Nearly 70 people attended a clinic aimed at showing immigrants how to become naturalized citizens, part of a push by Washington state and an immigrant advocacy group to encourage legal permanent residents to become U.S. citizens.

PASCO, Wash. When Alfredo Garcia wasn't toiling in the fields, he spent hours building his American dream.

SEATTLE A man wounded by an armored car guard remains in critical condition Monday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. A spokeswoman says he's in the intensive care unit.

PORT ORCHARD, Wash. A Kitsap County teenager charged with stabbing an elderly neighbor to death has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

VANCOUVER, Wash. A 90-year-old Vancouver woman safely escaped her home before a blaze damaged her home Sunday morning.

VANCOUVER, Wash. A Republican state senator says he will enter the race for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray.

BILLINGS, Mont. With ballooning elk and deer populations eating up greenery and altering ecosystems at national parks across the country, a group of researchers is suggesting an unusual solution: introduce small packs of gray wolves to curb the expanding herds.

SHORELINE, Wash. Sheriff's deputies say a 17-year-old boy crashed his parents' car through the doors of Shorecrest High School in Shoreline, then drove it down the hall.