Toys R Us is pulling a toy off the shelves after a scary situation for a Bellingham family. The Hardens bought a Tonka truck from Toys R Us as a Christmas present for their grandson Friday night. On the drive home, they say it ignited in flames.

A man was killed Saturday night when a car crashed into a Kent apartment building in the 10800 block of southeast 240th Place. Kent police say two people were in the car when it went through the home fatally striking a man who was asleep in his bed.

A three-alarm fire that gutted a Kent strip mall on Sunday may have begun because one store was out of shopping carts.

The long awaited La Niña, which was first predicted by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) back in April, has finally arrived in the Pacific Ocean, NOAA announced Thursday -- and it’s expected to stick around through the winter.

A recreational vehicle salesman who claimed he couldn’t work because of an on-the-job injury has been ordered to pay back more than $81,000 in state disability benefits.

Two tornadoes touched down on the Oregon coast Friday morning as the National Weather Service issued 10 separate tornado warnings for multiple coastal communities in Oregon and Washington.

When Northwest weather guru Cliff Mass warns of "extraordinarily active weather with the potential ... to be an historic event," it’s time to check the flashlights, get some water and non-perishable food and prepare to hunker down for a couple of days.

Survivors and family members of people killed in the nation’s deadliest landslide have reached $60 million in settlements with the state of Washington and a timber company that logged an area above the site of the collapse.

Marcelino Cruz took the same route each evening, driving along Rock Creek Parkway in Northwest Washington on the way home from his job at a tree-service company in Fairfax, his family said. But Monday afternoon, as he was driving in his 2013 Toyota Corolla, a massive tree fell on the car, crushing the roof and trapping Cruz inside.

There are few things worse than having your relatively new car stall on you without warning. That’s why Ford is recalling nearly 90,000 vehicles with a defect that could leave your car dead — and unable to restart — in the middle of the road.

A growing number of wildfires were threatening people and property in the western United States on Tuesday, with the governor of Washington state declaring a state of emergency in 20 counties.

Hot, dry and windy conditions have created a perfect storm for the spread of large wildfires in several western states, including a massive blaze in California that has destroyed 135-square miles of forest. In addition, Washington, Wyoming, Montana and Oregon each had their hands full with large active wildfires.

A Tacoma-area man faces a felony theft charge after he was caught working while receiving more than $81,000 in workers’ compensation disability payments.

Investigators in Washington are examining the scene of a crash that left an SUV propped on its top on the wall of a Starbucks.

A semitrailer carrying hazardous material crashed on Interstate 90 in central Washington state, killing the driver, sending fumes into the air and causing some residences to be temporarily evacuated.