Washington

Michelle Bennett's mother Carolann lived a life of service. She spent 38 years working as a nurse, and last week, at the age of 75, she died surrounded by them.

All the residents expressed how much they love and miss their families.

A 90-year-old woman who had contracted COVID-19 at the the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington, which became an early epicenter of the nation’s novel coronavirus outbreak, was declared free of the disease on March 22.

Coronavirus vaccine testing begins in people as U.S. researchers give volunteer first experimental shot in Seattle.

Elizabeth Schneider, 37, told the global news agency Agence France-Presse that she had a mild case of COVID-19, adding she hopes publicly sharing her story will “give people a little bit of hope” as fear spreads seemingly faster than the novel virus itself.

A U.S. scientist is helping public health authorities understand and track the coronavirus.

An Amazon employee in Seattle reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 after becoming symptomatic last month.

Washington state health officials announced 3 new virus deaths, bringing the death toll to 5 in the state and U.S.

The first COVID-19 death was in Washington state on Saturday, marking the first such reported death in the United States. 

Officials in Washington state say a person has died of COVID-19, the first such death in the United States. The new virus is a member of the coronavirus family and is a close cousin to the SARS and MERS viruses that have caused outbreaks in the past. It can cause fever, coughing, wheezing and pneumonia.

A man who was caught texting about molesting children by a fellow plane passenger has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The victim says on the third visit, the suspects gave her a cupcake to eat and she immediately felt ill. She told the suspects to leave and then noticed her house keys were missing.

A gunman opened fire in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night, killing one person and wounding seven others, authorities said. 

Police in Pasco, Washington, helped a terminally ill dog named Eddie fulfill some bucket list activities on Monday, January 20, including becoming an honorary police K-9.

The U.S. on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak's epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle.

Trump said Iran appears to be "standing down" and said no Americans or Iraqis were harmed in Iran's ballistic missile strike on two Iraqi bases housing U.S. troops.

Civil rights groups and lawmakers were demanding information from federal officials following reports that dozens of Iranian-Americans were held up and questioned at the border as they returned to the United States from Canada over the weekend.