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Two people were killed and several others were wounded in a mass shooting at the campgrounds near Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre during an electronic dance music festival Saturday night, according to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.

A video of a Washington state pastor saying parents of transgender children should be shot in the head has gone viral online.

Jason Graber, pastor of Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Spokane said he believed parents of transgender children deserved to be killed.

A precarious glacier in the crater of Mount St. Helens grows at an unprecedented rate, due to being in constant shade from the sun. It's posing potential danger to the valley below.

Threats, Resources, and more. Beautiful interactive map showing the geology of Washington State

The Pig War occurred in 1859 after an American living on the contested San Juan Islands shot a pig rooting through his garden. The pig belonged to a British resident who reported the American, Lyman Cutlar, to the island's British authorities.

Not all fossils are bones. (Or shells. Or teeth.) Most of us would agree that mammoth tusks and Stegosaurus spikes are pretty darn cool. And yet, the fossil record is not limited to old body parts. "Fossils" are defined as any "naturally preserved remains or traces of [life forms] that existed in the geologic past."

As for why Washington has such a high incidence of skin cancer in the first place, it might have something to do with people falsely assuming they don't need to take precautions in cloudy weather —

The Washington Department of Ecology adopted sweeping rules that will prohibit the use of toxic chemicals like PFAS and bisphenols in certain consumer products.

The BNR replaced “squaw” in the names of a ridge in Okanogan County and lakes in Kittitas and Chelan counties at its Tuesday meeting, according to state Department of Natural Resources Communications Manager Kenny Ocker.