Approximately 298,026 customers are without power on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 8 a.m. ET, according to USA TODAY's power outage tracker. Oregon, Washington's southern neighbor, is also grappling with power outages.

After this latest rain, forecasters at the Weather Service’s Seattle office said that a combination of dry periods and snow piling up in the mountains would finally allow rivers to recede, signaling what they called a “long-awaited return to some semblance of normalcy for December.”

This George Washington portrait by Gilbert Stuart, commissioned by James Madison, has a colorful history. Now Christie’s in New York will auction it in January.

Relentless rain pounding the Pacific Northwest has triggered flooding and landslides across Washington’s national parks over the past week, wreaking havoc in some of the state’s most remote destinations.

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People Cold Case Unit was established within the Washington attorney general's office in 2023.

As flooding in Washington continues to cause people to leave their homes, the National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for the coming week.

Some good news and bad news regarding some of the Washington Commanders ' injured players.

The Washington Commanders announced several roster moves this morning. Five players left the Giants game with one or more injuries, and two of them have been shut down for the season. WR Noah Brown left the game in the 1st quarter with a back injury,

Man charged after stabbing Bellevue police officer in face during ambush attack following a bogus 911 call at a transit center near Seattle on Tuesday.