Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — Yakima is recalling about 7,000 bicycle racks used on vehicles with rear-door spare tires.

Documents posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website Friday say that mounting bolts can break and the bikes can fall from the vehicles and cause a hazard.

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SEATTLE (AP) — Efforts to build a new professional basketball arena in Seattle face a hurdle Friday as a judge hears arguments in a lawsuit to slow or stop the deal. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union is concerned that adding a third stadium to the area south of downtown would choke freight traffic

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COLVILLE, Wash. (AP) — A judge has granted a defense request for more time to complete a second mental exam for two fifth-grade Colville boys accused of bringing weapons to school in a plot to kill a classmate

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SEATTLE (AP) — It's a split decision from the union representing Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers. The engineers voted Tuesday to accept the aerospace company's four-year contract offer while technical workers rejected it and authorized a future strike

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The next time the Spokane City Council considers a tax increase, it will take five of seven votes to pass. City voters in Tuesday's election approved a proposition calling for a supermajority threshold for a tax hike

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A year after Josh Powell killed himself and his two sons in an explosive house fire in Washington state, his brother Michael has committed suicide. Kiirsi Hellewell, a friend of Josh Powell's estranged sister, says he jumped to his death from a Minneapolis parking garage Monday

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Health Department says the state has had 34 lab-confirmed flu deaths so far this flu season.

Agency spokesman Donn Moyer says that figure covers confirmed deaths through Wednesday. The

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POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — An eastern Idaho school district has approved installing gun safes in its high schools and middle schools so school resource officers can have their service rifles available, if needed.

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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - This may be the worst year for Washington parents looking to buy prepaid tuition credits for their children.

If a Republican-led coalition and a liberal Democrat have their way, lawmakers would spend the next couple months developing a plan to scrap the Guaranteed Education Tuition program altogether

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PROSSER, Wash. (AP) - Construction has started on a wine center that has been a decade in the planning at a Yakima River overlook in Prosser. It is called the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center after the Washington State University researcher often called the father of the wine industry in the State

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