For the fourth year in a row, Washington state is entering its growing season under a drought emergency, a streak with no ...

The fact that state officials started ringing alarm bells so early in the year underscores just how painful they expect the summer dry spell to be.

Governor Bob Ferguson announced in a social media post that he signed an amendment to the emergency declaration across the state in order to activate more assistance programs in response to historic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People in several communities in Washington state are facing evacuations after a storm caused some of the worst flooding the state ...

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson announced Friday morning that the federal government is granting the state’s request for emergency assistance following days of devastating flooding. In a Dec. 12 news ...

YAKIMA – The Washington Department of Ecology declared a statewide drought emergency Tuesday due to critically low snowpack threatening summer water supplies. Despite normal winter precipitation, ...

TACOMA, Wash — Twenty-five years after the Nisqually earthquake rattled western Washington, the powerful 6.8-magnitude quake remains a defining moment for the region, both for those who lived through ...