Kitsap Transit’s research ferry Rich Passage 1 ran aground Monday while en route to the Port of Port Townsend to be hauled out of the water for winter maintenance. There were three people onboard at the time of the allision. The vessel nosed onto the beach while going through narrow…
Oil-tanker traffic in Washington waters is set to increase under a proposal floated by Canadian energy giant Kinder Morgan. The company earlier this month announced that so much interest was expressed by potential customers in long-term purchase contracts for Canadian tar-sands oil that it is bumping up the proposed expansion…
The Tacoma Fire Department, U.S. Coast Guard and Washington Department of Ecology are responding to the sinking of two abandoned vessels moored at Mason Marina on the Hylebos Waterway near Tacoma early today. The abandoned Helena Star and Golden West were chained together when they sank Friday morning. Officials say…
Just two years after its approval by the FDA, a dangerous flaw in the new drug Pradaxa has come to light. Pradaxa is an anti-clotting drug prescribed to patients with artial fibrillation. When the F.D.A. approved Pradaxa in October 2010, the drug was hailed as the first in a new…
State lawmakers may reconsider the law that requires new ferries to be built in Washington. An audit suggested ferries could be built cheaper at shipyards out of state. The audit, which cost $1.2 million and took a year to complete, is the subject of a legislative hearing today in Olympia.…
A smoky fire that killed an Edmonds apartment resident was caused by a reading lamp falling onto bedding. Snohomish County Fire District 1 spokeswoman Leslie Hynes says a clamp came loose and the light fell on the bed. Neighbors who saw smoke reported the fire Monday night. Firefighters put out…
Last week, we posted about a tragic tour bus crash in Oregon on December 30 that killed nine and injured 39. After investigating, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) concluded that the driver of the bus was driving too fast for the icy conditions at the time of the crash.…
Coast Guard crews are searching for a missing 56-year-old fisherman who went overboard early today in the Pacific Ocean off the Olympic Peninsula, eight miles west of the Queets River. The man, reportedly not wearing a lifejacket, fell overboard from the fishing boat Senja about 1:30 a.m. today eight miles…
A commuter ferry packed with 326 passengers and five crewmembers crashed into a dock at Manhattan’s Pier 11, near Wall Street around 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, injuring 74. At least two were critically injured, one of whom was rushed to surgery with severe head trauma and bleeding after falling down a…
The driver of a bus that crashed in Oregon last week, killing nine and injuring 39, had been on the road too long without rest, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT). On Tuesday, calling it “an imminent hazard to the public,” the department ordered the Canadian company running…