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Jan 24, 2025 | 
billingsgazette.com | Gene Johnson |Ed Komenda |Gene Johnson
EVERETT, Wash. — As other entrepreneurs push the edges of technology to bring well-heeled tourists to space, Stockton Rush saw new opportunities for exploring another frontier: the deep sea.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
journaltimes.com | Jaimie Ding |Beatrice Dupuy |Heather Hollingsworth |Gene Johnson |Claire Rush
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
wfmz.com | Audrey McAvoy |Gene Johnson |Jennifer Sinco Kelleher |Gene Johnson
HONOLULU (AP) — Investigators reviewing the emergency response to last year's wildfire that killed 102 people on Maui said in a report released Friday they found “no evidence” Hawaii officials made preparations for it, despite days of warnings that critical fire weather was coming. That lack of planning hindered efforts to evacuate the historic town of Lahaina before it burned, the report said.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
wfmz.com | Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
For those conservative voters long turned off by former President Donald Trump's rhetoric, his somewhat softened tone in accepting the Republican nomination Thursday night was a welcome relief. “He's much improved,” Dave Struthers, a 57-year-old farmer from Collins, Iowa, said as he watched Trump's speech in the basement of his farmhouse. “The thing I've had against him is he's been so egotistical — ‘I, I, I.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
wfmz.com | Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday said Washington will spell out in state law that hospitals must provide abortions if needed to stabilize patients, a step that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule this month on whether conservative states can bar abortions during some medical emergencies.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
journaltimes.com | Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
KENT, Wash. — Kabongo Kambila Ringo stood outside the tent where he has been staying with his pregnant wife and ate from a clear plastic tray of Girl Scout cookies melting in the midday sun. He was one of about 240 asylum-seekers camping in a grassy lot along a highway south of Seattle, wondering if police would follow through on threats to arrest them for trespassing, and hoping officials instead might let them move into the vacant motel next door.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
journaltimes.com | Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
ARLINGTON, Wash. — When Washington state opened some of the nation's first legal marijuana stores in 2014, Sam Ward Jr. was on electronic home detention in Spokane, where he had been indicted on federal drug charges. He would soon be off to prison to serve the lion's share of a four-year sentence. A decade later, Ward, who is Black, recently posed on a blue-and-gold throne used for photo ops at his new cannabis store, Cloud 9 Cannabis. He greeted customers walking in for early 4/20 deals.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
wfmz.com | Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected a challenge to a Washington state law that cleared the way for lawsuits against the gun industry in certain cases. The measure was one of three bills signed by Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee last year seeking to address gun violence. It requires the industry to exercise reasonable controls in making, selling and marketing weapons, including steps to keep guns from being sold to people known to be dangerous or to straw buyers.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
journaltimes.com | Claire Rush |Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
PORTLAND, Ore. — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been putting their baby in the car. The woman screamed to her boyfriend to get the baby to safety, and he grabbed the child and began to scramble up the driveway on concrete so slick it was almost impossible to walk.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
journaltimes.com | Claire Rush |Gene Johnson |Gene Johnson
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been putting their baby in the car. The woman screamed to her boyfriend to get the baby to safety, and he grabbed the child and began to scramble up the driveway on concrete so slick it was almost impossible to walk.
