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SEATTLE (AP) — Philanthropist Harriet Bullitt has donated her rare collection of photographer Edward S.Curtis' work on tribal life in the early 20th century to The Seattle Public Library. City Librarian Marcellus Turner says the library is "beyond honored" to receive the collection, called "The North American Indian." Curtis, the famed Seattle photographer who died in 1952, feared tribal traditions were vanishing and made it his life's work to document them. Over three decades, Curtis and his

In Cora Milholland's lifetime, Marysville has grown from under 2,000 residents to over 60,000. Since the time he arrived in the 1990s, Loren Cook says the population has tripled. Six new developments have sprung up on all sides of Nichole Cleland since 2004, when she moved to a new development in Marysville.

Thousands of Seattle workers got a raise on January 1 when the city's minimum wage increased to $15 per hour. The raise is for people working at Seattle's companies with more than 500 employees worldwide.

Marysville is the fastest growing big city in western Washington because there’s space to build housing. But there aren’t many jobs in Marysville. So one in six people end up commuting more than an hour to work. It's a bedroom community that failed to make itself over in the 1980s. Now it's trying again.

When you first hit the road from Seattle on your way to Mason County there are lots of signs that the economy is buzzing, like construction cranes, shiny new buildings and hybrid cars. But when you wind around past Olympia into Mason County, you're more likely to see a pickup truck with a gun rack than a Prius. And the average wage in Mason in 2015 was about half as much as in King County.

Prosecutors filed charges Wednesday against the man accused of fatally shooting five people at the Cascade Mall in Burlington last September. Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old Oak Harbor resident, is charged with five counts of aggravated murder.

Washington state Republicans split over their party's move Monday night to weaken Congress's only independent ethics watchdog. House Republicans quickly abandoned the move in an emergency meeting the next morning after a firestorm of criticism.

Local civil rights leader Alan Sugiyama died Monday at the age of 67 after a two-year battle with cancer. He emerged as a leader in the Asian-American rights movement at a young age, co-founding the Oriental Student Union at Seattle Central Community College .

Journalism is so white. That’s a criticism of newsrooms in America, and the numbers show that it’s true: In radio, just 9.4 percent of journalists are people of color .

Dixy Lee Ray wore white knee-high socks and men's shirts. And when she ran for governor of Washington state, her motto was "Little lady takes on big boys." She was blunt and brash, an outsider who didn't play well with others, but there was never any doubt where she stood. Seattle historian Knute Berger spoke with KUOW's Bill Radke that Dixy Lee Ray was a little like President-elect Donald Trump.