Washington

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

At least one person was wounded, police said, in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

A lost sea lion took over a road in Washington state, and it took multiple agencies an hour to get it off land and back into the water.

NBC LX Storyteller Chase Cain was there when Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Browser had “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street that leads to the White House and later announced the area had been renamed “Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

A Fox News reporter was attacked and chased away by protesters outside of the White House early Saturday

The Washington State Potato Commission looked to give away 200,000 pounds of potatoes to those in need in Tacoma, Washington.

Take a little break from coronavirus coverage to look at the beauty of cherry blossom trees which line the National Mall in Washington, D.C., but were brought to the United States from Japan.

Dorothy Campbell, 88, looked through a window on Thursday at her husband of more than 60 years, Gene Campbell.

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed to 11 on Wednesday with a patient succumbing in California — the first reported fatality outside Washington state — as federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home where most of the victims were stricken. Officials in California’s Placer County, near Sacramento, said an elderly person who tested positive after returning...

There were 88 reported cases of coronavirus in the United States as of Monday and more than 80,000 worldwide. This scare has led to a spike in sales of products Americans think will help them avoid the virus.

The governor of Washington state declared a state of emergency Saturday after a man died there of COVID-19, the first such reported death in the United States

Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming three patients were infected by unknown means.

Traci Strahan sits down with NPR’s Jami Floyd to discuss an Apollo Theater panel examining Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and work, and how to adapt his 1967 manuscript in the current political climate on its 50th anniversary.

We’re taking a trip down memory lane and checking in on some of the pets adopted during the 2016 Clear the Shelters event.

Bystanders rescued two people after they fell through the ice at a state park in Washington Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred at Mount Tom State Park at approximately 12:30 p.m. Both victims were evaluated by crews and are expected to be OK. Crews responded and assisted in retrieving fishing gear for the victims, according to officials. The Bantam Fire Company…

A 30-foot pileup of tumbleweeds in Washington state trapped cars and motorists on Highway 240 on New Year’s Eve.

Eleven people were injured, three of them critically, after a man crashed his van into a Washington state clothing store Monday night, NBC News reported. The crash happened at around 9:15 p.m. at the Ross Dress for Less in Burien, about 11 miles south of Seattle. King County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ryan Abbott said the driver of the van was waiting...

Michelle Obama joined forces with Ellen DeGeneres to give a Southeast Washington, D.C., elementary school a huge surprise. Randle Highlands Elementary School was brimming with holiday spirit on “Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways” this week. The talk show host enlisted the former first lady to surprise students with a new basketball court, updated computers and iPads for every...

State treasurer Shawn Wooden made a big statement, announcing a “responsible gun policy” for Connecticut’s pension investments and financial business, which includes selling off stocks of some gun manufacturers.