A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.

It’s difficult for Glen Whitton to grasp what happened inside the Federal Way home he shares with his wife Judy, his wife’s twin sister Julie Hocking and her husband Kevin.

Darnell Shobey, 31, of Tacoma, pleaded guilty in Pierce County Superior Court on Feb. 23 to first-degree attempted theft, a felony. He was sentenced to serve two months in the Pierce County jail and to pay $1,200 in court fees.

The safe looks like a shipwrecked vessel. Its concrete casing has been scorched brown. Charred boards cover its top. A Sept. 25 fire destroyed Everett Office Furniture’s longtime headquarters in downtown Everett. The business lost every piece of inventory except one: the fire safe.

A Tacoma Washington soldier was shocked when his brand new 2018 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk erupted in flames Saturday evening.

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck the Gulf of Alaska early on Tuesday, prompting warnings of a possible tsunami down the West Coast of North America.

There will certainly be lawsuits against Amtrak following Monday’s derailment, which killed three people and injured dozens more. The commuter train was traveling at 80 mph on a 30-mph stretch of track, according to investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed Monday morning, spilling multiple cars off an Interstate 5 overpass in Pierce County, Washington, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation’s Twitter account. Injuries and casualties have been reported, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office and Amtrak said.

A brief but intense snowstorm swept across the Spokane region Friday, causing slick roads that led to scores of accidents.
But does the snow signal a wintry change in what has been a dry December?

The rain across western Washington has caused flooding all across Skagit county. The Skagit River reached its highest level in 11 years Thursday causing major flooding in the towns of Hamilton, Mount Vernon, and Concrete.

New data released today by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows a total of 22,705 vehicles were reported stolen on the 11 holidays in 2016 covered in this report. NICB theft data is pulled from the National Crime Information Center’s (NCIC) stolen vehicle file, which showed a total of 803,719 vehicle thefts for the year.

One person has died and least five others have been injured as a powerful storm raked Western Washington Monday.The fatality occurred in Renton where a tree fell onto a car with two women and a young girl inside in the 17900 block of 158th Place SE, according to Sgt. Joe Hauk with the King County Sheriff’s Office.

A neighborhood is scattered with debris and a Sultan family without a home tonight after their house exploded early Thursday morning. Investigators say it was likely propane tanks stored inside the garage that caused the explosion.

Blewett Pass was reduced to one lane of alternating traffic for about four hours Wednesday after a semi-tractor rolled off the road, spilling a load of wood chips. Troopers say the driver was eating a taco when he lost control of the truck.

A Washington man is accused of running a bar while claiming he was too injured to work, a scheme that allegedly provided him more than $230,000 in state workers compensation and federal disability benefits, according to state regulators.