OLYMPIA, Wash. The director of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is resigning after 10 years in the position.

SEATTLE The Puget Sound Partnership has completed its blueprint for fighting pollution and restoring habitat in Puget Sound.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska Michael Wooten, the Alaska State Trooper at the center of the Troopergate scandal over whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, is now embroiled in a power struggle of his own - a custody dispute with an ex-wife.

SEATTLE Two environmental groups are going to court to try to block a government plan to take more water out of Lake Roosevelt, behind Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.

OLYMPIA, Wash. An atheist group has unveiled an anti-religion placard in the state Capitol, joining a Christian Nativity scene and "holiday tree" on display during December.

SEATTLE Police say a man who was walking on the tracks of Seattle Monorail has surrendered.

Journalists are known for their gallows humor, but the editorial cartoon in The Seattle Times a few days before Thanksgiving was downright disturbing.

SEATTLE JPMorgan Chase & Co. is eliminating the jobs of 3,400 Washington Mutual employees in the Seattle area, part of 9,200 job reductions nationwide, a spokesman said Monday.

SEATTLE At least 11 candidates have expressed interest in running for director of the King County elections department, a job that became open after voters decided it should be an elected position.

VANCOUVER, Wash. The sentencing of a Clark County man who may have gotten his "third strike" while killing a K9 dog was been scheduled for later this month.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The state Department of Corrections has canceled Wednesday's scheduled execution of Darold Ray Stenson following the state Supreme Court's refusal to lift a stay of execution.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho The Armchair Survivalist believes the nation is falling into chaos, and he wants to help.

SEATTLE A camp for homeless people in Seattle has been offered a new location to pitch its tents.

SEATTLE Police are investigating the apparent stabbing death of a 32-year-old woman in her south Seattle home.

SPOKANE, Wash. Avista Corp. plans to delay building a wind farm by at least two years, citing the high cost of the windmill-like turbines.

CHEWELAH, Wash. The death of an Eastern Washington boy who bled to death after he was shot with an arrow has been ruled accidental.

SPOKANE, Wash. Spokane police are looking for three robbers who stole the groceries from an 87-year-old disabled man in a wheelchair and assaulted him after the man had just purchased the food from a store.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho The Armchair Survivalist believes the nation is falling into chaos, and he wants to help.

BREMERTON, Wash. Heavy concentrations of cancer-causing chemicals have been discovered underground at an old industrial site in West Bremerton.

PUYALLUP, Wash. Puyallup is disbanding a police team that has dealt with methamphetamine labs after the city was cited for not protecting officers from hazardous chemical exposure.

SEATTLE Dozens of people crowded into a south Seattle funeral home to mourn a teenage boy who was shot and killed at the Southcenter mall in Tukwila.

SPOKANE, Wash. Police say a man driving away from a Spokane bar hit at least seven cars within 13 minutes, including one driven by an off-duty detective, before they arrested him for drunken driving.

OLYMPIA, Wash. One winning ticket was sold for Saturday's $520,000 jackpot in the Washington State Lottery's Hit 5 game.

DONALD, Ore. Police have identified a teenager killed as he tried to run across Interstate-5 near Donald in the Salem area as 17-year-old Alan Bautista of Auburn, Wash.

MULINO, Ore. Authorities say a pilot has survived the crash of his ultralight aircraft on takeoff from a rural Oregon airport.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. Western Washington University in Bellingham will soon offer three degree programs through the University Center of North Puget Sound in Everett.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The holiday tree in the state Capitol this year will be joined by a Christian nativity scene and an atheistic billboard.

WENATCHEE, Wash. The Wenatchee Diversity Advisory Council that was established by the city's mayor in 2004 in response to allegations of racism by conference attendees is struggling to get enough members to attend a meeting.

MULINO, Ore. Authorities say the pilot has survived the crash of his ultralight aircraft on takeoff from a rural Oregon airport.

BOISE, Idaho An ultra-Orthodox Jewish group in Idaho is among those across America holding memorial services for a rabbi and his wife slain last week in the terror attacks in India.

SPOKANE, Wash. The first snow of the season caught some drivers unprepared, leading to more than 70 accidents in Eastern Washington - at least two of them fatal crashes.

SUMAS, Wash. Years of collecting dead carcasses and examining lead-poisoned livers have convinced Mike Smith of this: to save Pacific Coast trumpeter swans, he has to haze them.

SEATTLE Washington state has finally sold two fast ferries that were taken out of service by legislators in Olympia after they were embroiled in a lawsuit.

SUMAS, Wash. Years of collecting dead carcasses and examining lead-poisoned livers have convinced Mike Smith of this: to save Pacific Coast trumpeter swans, he has to haze them.

SEATTLE Across Washington, holiday shoppers who got up early, or camped out overnight, hit the stores on the traditional shopping day known as Black Friday but by most accounts they were careful and polite.

SEATTLE A Coast Guard helicopter has rescued three people from a capsized boat in Dabob Bay near Quilcene, Wash.

SEATTLE A 21-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a teenager at a shopping mall in Tukwila, Wash., has waived extradition and will be returned from Oregon to King County.

SPOKANE, Wash. FBI Special Agent Norm Brown traveled a long, exciting and sometimes dangerous series of assignments before returning to his hometown of Spokane, where he graduated from Ferris High School in 1975.

SEATTLE A charter bus carrying members of a high school football team overturned Friday in a four-vehicle collision on Interstate 5 south of Seattle, injuring eight people, the Washington State Patrol said.

LONGVIEW, Wash. Longview Fibre plans to restart four of its five paper machines at its Longview mill next week.

MONROE, Wash. Another suspected case of chickenpox would make 18 since October reported at Salem Woods Elementary School in Monroe.

BAYVIEW, Idaho A Rathdrum man is missing and feared drowned in Lake Pend Oreille.

COLVILLE, Wash. A 12-year-old was killed by an arrow in Stevens County, near Chewelah.

SEATTLE A Western Washington credit counseling agency has been forced to merge with a larger organization based in Ohio.

SEATTLE Seattle City Light says it has exceeded its energy conservation goal for 2008.

YAKIMA, Wash. Supporters of the proposed Black Rock Reservoir in the Yakima Valley are paying $18,000 for radio and TV commercials promoting the project.

OLYMPIA, Wash. Drivers getting their license renewal notice from the state Department of Licensing will see something new in the envelope.

SEATTLE A University of Washington employee who says her boss sexually harassed her has filed a $500,000 claim against the university.

OLYMPIA, Wash. A spokesman for the state Transportation Department, Lloyd Brown, says the department could receive as much as $500 million from a federal plan to stimulate the economy with public works projects.

OLYMPIA, Wash. The looming state budget deficit may slow work to clean up Puget Sound.