Galleries HQ, an iPad platform, allows artists to promote their work and lets enthusiasts see it. The platform was created by Seattle entrepreneur and UW alumnus Wayne Bishop. People cannot buy art on the app but they can contact artists about works directly. 

There are increased demands on museums around the world to return bones brought back from conquered people or colonies. Some of the bones were "exotic trinkets" or used in trading. The German Museums Association issued ethical guidelines for human remains, citing human dignity.

Wildflowers are in bloom in the L.T. Murray wildlife area. The more than 100,000 acres outside of Yakima host different desert and wildflowers capable of withstanding the elements. 

The Washington State University Board of Regents decided by vote to only allow fall tuition to rise by 2 percent. The board said they'll keep the 2 percent minimum despite what the Legislature decides about the state budget. 

16 percent more applicants applied for freshman admission this year, with nearly 30,000 hopeful Huskies submitting applications. Out-of-state applicants and international student applications increased the most. Only 61 percent of in-state students who applied were accepted; this is down from 65 percent last year. 

An anonymous photographer has released new photos from the top of the Space Needle and other buildings in downtown Seattle. The photos are being posted to Reddit, a social sharing site, by the alias "shuttersubversive." 

Kitzhaber said the bridge collapse near Mount Vernon underscores the need for Washington to join Oregon in funding a new bridge on I-5.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping bluntly told North Korea to re-enter talks aimed at its nuclear disarmament.

On Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee was standing at the Capitol steps, addressing a rally in support of a transportation tax increase. He reminded the audience of “the bridge that fell down in Minnesota.”

The decision, which came after years of resistance and wrenching internal debate, was widely seen as a milestone for the Boy Scouts, a symbol of traditional America.

Four agencies close for business today.

The likely culprits in the Minneapolis I-35 bridge collapse of 2007 were faulty steel plates that held together the bridge's beams, the NTSB said. 

According to the report there are 14 bridges in the county that are classified as structurally deficient under National Bridge Inspection Standards.

The bridge, built in 1955, was considered structurally deficient in 1992, and functionally obsolete in 2000 and 2010, according to the National Bridge Inventory.

Scientists reported in the journal Nature, that neanderthals stopped breast-feeding their children by 1.2 years. Researchers studied the fossilized molar from a child to determine barium levels. In modern nonindustrial populations, children reach an average of 2.5 years before being weaned.

Video: "A Zambian-born, Oxford-educated international economist, Moyo argues that the international aid model is broken and that aid programs actually leave recipients worse off."

The district argues that the schools have too many empty desks; critics see a racial impact.

Tania Santiago, 21, — who was born in Mexico and came to the U.S. at four — wasn't sure she'd be able to compete for the main crown when she won Miss Hispanic Seafair this year. The scholarship connected to the title requires participants to be a legal citizen. Santiago received word Monday that she will be eligible to compete. 

Calls for a wide-ranging study are aimed at delaying good projects, according to backers of coal exports.

It would show he's serious, and it would call the Republicans' bluff.

"In the heady days after the Revolution, a national language seemed like a natural development for a new country. Franklin’s proposal found little support, even with those to whom he was closest. He did, however, manage to convert Webster, the pioneer of spelling reform."

And the anti-Austerians fight back with an amazing array of insults.

A design-review meeting is slowed down, and the schedule for the EIS is slipping.

In a major speech, President Obama announced plans to restrict the use of unmanned drone strikes. The administration also acknowledged that drone strikes had killed four American citizens outside the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.

With limited car deck space, Washington State Ferries wants to start tilting fares in the favor of walk-on passengers, for whom it has plenty of room, planning director Ray Deardorf told the Transportation Commission on Wednesday.

Friends of a Washington state woman couldn’t understand how she could elect to remove both her breasts and her ovaries without ever being diagnosed with cancer. Angelina Jolie's revelation re-starts a conversation.

Michael McClendon, Sgt. First Class at West Point is facing charges for secretly filming female soldiers, sometimes while they were in the bathroom or shower. The Army is contacting about a dozen women to inform them that they may be victims. 

The new DSM-5 has eliminated three different autism-spectrum disorders, including Aspergers. The DSM-IV diagnosises didn't "reflect reality," Bryan King, director of Seattle Children's Autism Center, told Slate. In some states, children who don't have an autism diagnosis do not have access to state services. 

Voters mostly stayed home, despite the long, well-funded race. The big loser: municipal unions.

Voters in the Moore Poll back the Senate position on not raising taxes over the House budget, 61-26.

Charlie Cook: In playing to their rabid, Obama-hating base, the GOP ignores the fact that the rest of the electorate is not biting.

The money is technically in Ireland though it is actually residing in Manhattan. Huh?

The case of Ben Carson, and whether he should have been disinvited from speaking at Johns Hopkins.

The libertarian side of Portland politics strikes again.