A story about a sex offender moving into a neighborhood near an elementary school has earned KEPR Action News Reporter Frances Watson a 1st place award.
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Climbers remember Mount St. Helens eruption 33 years later (Video)
Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the biggest news stories ever experienced in the Pacific Northwest.
GAS PRCIES: what to know this traveling season (Video)
Costs have surged by a dime in the last week alone. All while many of you are planning to hit the road for Memorial Day weekend.
Thousands check out monster trucks at Kidz Dig Rigz (Video)
Hundreds of families gathered at Columbia Park today for the third annual Kidz Dig Rigz event. Kids could check out "rigs" of all kinds: police, fire and military vehicles.
News
A story about a sex offender moving into a neighborhood near an elementary school has earned KEPR Action News Reporter Frances Watson a 1st place award.
Saturday marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the biggest news stories ever experienced in the Pacific Northwest.
Costs have surged by a dime in the last week alone. All while many of you are planning to hit the road for Memorial Day weekend.
Hundreds of families gathered at Columbia Park today for the third annual Kidz Dig Rigz event. Kids could check out "rigs" of all kinds: police, fire and military vehicles.
With the majority of possible combinations of Powerball numbers in play, someone is almost sure to win the game's highest jackpot on Saturday night, a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars — and that's after taxes.
From Oregon to New Mexico, Hawaii to Montana, a look at the American West as seen through the cameras of The Associated Press.
Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane.
KEPR is looking into a Richland daycare that was closed by the state. The Department of Early Learning says it’s the first step into an investigation of abuse allegations.
Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, which damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the Northeast Corridor.
Plans to process your mail out of Spokane instead of the Tri-Cities are moving forward. With sights set on the end of June for the switch.
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Entertainment
Photos: More red carpet arrivals at Cannes (Photo Gallery)
Lawyer for accused metal singer: steroids had ill effect
The lawyer for a California heavy metal singer accused of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife says the singer's mind has been ravaged by steroid use.
'The Voice' brings back Aguilera, Cee Lo Green
The NBC singing contest said Friday that Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green will return for "The Voice" Season 5, joining Adam Levine and Blake Shelton.
Offbeat
Milwaukee backs off bra ban for historic bar
A historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar almost went without the appropriate support after a city inspector decided dozens of bras hanging from its ceiling were a fire hazard.
'Golden Girl' Bea Arthur topless painting fetches $1.9M
A painting of actress Bea Arthur topless has sold for $1.9 million at a New York City auction.
Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials say 18-year-old Braxton Bielski bagged the record gator last week at Choke Canyon State Park, about 90 miles south of San Antonio.
Local & Regional
Coast Guard rescues teen from Oregon surf
A Coast Guard helicopter has rescued a teenage girl from the surf on the northwest Oregon coast.
You'll find a different breed of vets at the stand down in Forks - the ones who want to be as far away from people as possible.Some have been fighting their own "personal" wars for more than four decades.
The five West Coast states affected by debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan are about to receive an initial $250,000 each from a $5 million gift from Japan for cleanup.
News stories about childcare facilities and nannies always stress parents out. Especially on the heels of a manslaughter trial for a former Richland nanny.
The sun has been getting quite active lately, with one sun spot in particular giving off several explosive flares this week, and it could eventually bring some brilliant displays of the Northern Lights to the Pacific Northwest.
Sports
Oxbow led from start to finish. It was the sixth Preakness victory for Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas and 15th Triple Crown victory, most in horse racing history.
Seattle tied the score at 4-all with two-out, solo homers by Raul Ibanez and Justin Smoak off Indians closer Chris Perez in the top of the ninth but Cleveland answered
while the Fever visits Colorado Ice
Jason Kipnis' three-run homer in the 10th inning gave the Cleveland Indians a 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
Around the World
Authorities: Student killed by police while intruder held her (Photo Gallery)
A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday.
Las Vegas police are searching for two thieves accused of running over a teenage boy with their SUV after he refused give up his iPad to them.
A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy should be overhauled so that openly gay boys can participate in Scout units.
Witnesses said a car drove into a crowd at a parade in a small southwestern Virginia mountain town Saturday
Top Video
Play of the Day: Flipping to safety
Navy launches drone from aircraft carrier
A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday in a test flight that could open the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft from just about any place in the world.
If a bear ate your face, this is what it'd look like
A nature photographer found some terrifying footage on his camera after placing it to try to capture "up close" images of grizzly bears.
Will It Work
Will It Work? The Waterproof Box (Video)
Click on the video tab to watch as Stormtracker Jay Frank takes to the Lower Yakima River to test out the Outdoor Products' Waterproof Box.
Consumer
What you don't know about your credit score can hurt you
Everyone wants a good credit score. We know it's important, but a lot of people don't understand how these numbers are created and how their actions affect them.
Politics
Senate majority names 33 bills for budget talks
As lawmakers wrap up their first week of a special legislative session, Senate majority leaders have asked that more than 30 bills be considered as part of the budget discussions.
Technology
The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's board of directors will meet Sunday evening to consider approving a $1.1 billion acquisition of online content-sharing site Tumblr
Four young computer hackers who masterminded cyberattacks on targets from the CIA to Sony Pictures and Rupert Murdoch's News International were sentenced to up to 32 months in prison on Thursday.
Sega says it will exclusively release the next three games starring the popular blue critter on Nintendo platforms. The first title will be called "Sonic Lost World" and is set for release on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS later this year.
A labor group Apple Inc. joined to assess working conditions at three manufacturing plants in China, where its products are made, says conditions are improving. But employees are still working more hours than the country's legal limit.
NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope is broken, potentially jeopardizing the search for other worlds where life could exist outside our solar system.
Health
The CDC is recommending baby boomers get tested for Hepatitis C, regardless of other risk factors. But, treatment may not be readily available for newly diagnosed patients, and the Affordable Care Act could make things even worse.
As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes.
A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, health officials said Wednesday.
Dr. Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez gently but sternly admonishes a teenage cerebral palsy patient who clearly hasn't been doing his exercises, stressing the importance of keeping muscles loose and limber.
Jeremy Hill Jr. is struggling to stay alive as he battles a rare genetic disorder called Adrenoleukodystrophy. His wish to meet the president and convince him to make a law to screen newborns for the disease.
Business
Fremont, Calif., a nondescript suburb of 217,000 tucked in the high-tech region between San Francisco and the Silicon Valley is where something unique is happening: manufacturing.
Uganda, which has confirmed oil deposits of about 3.5 billion barrels, wants to extract at least 1.2 billion barrels over the next three decades.
Tensions between conventional and organic agriculture boiled over this week during a late-night House Agriculture Committee debate on farm legislation that for decades has propped up traditional crops and largely ignored organics.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.
About 1.12 million people are eligible to file a claim. They signed up for the rewards program after buying a ticket at Ticketmaster.com between September 2004 and June 2009.
Consumer
Here's another reason to avoid second-hand smoke. Some new research indicates it could increase your risk for Alzheimer's disease or other types of severe dementia.
A change of address is one thing when you move to a new location, but people in a neighborhood near Renton say their addresses were changed without their knowledge and, more importantly, without them moving.
Idaho's potato industry is gazing north of the U.S. border to a tiny Canadian apple breeder for a sign of how the public may embrace a genetically modified potato proposed for commercialization by the J.R. Simplot Co.
In 1980, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. founder Ken Grossman effectively put the Cascade hop of Yakima on the map. More than three decades later, Washington State University researchers studying optimal brewing qualities with that same hop recently interned with Sierra Nevada master brewers to hone their brewing skills and learn advanced brewing methods that are being pioneered by American craft brewers.
If you’ve been thinking about getting a backup laptop, either for yourself or one that’s easy for your kids to use, there’s a new kind that’s being heavily advertised. It’s called a Chromebook.
