A truck hauling an oversized load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span into a river below as the driver watched the structure collapse in his rearview mirror.
When Dan Sligh and his wife got into their truck to begin a camping trip Thursday evening, they never could have imagined they would end up in the frigid Skagit River tangled in the wreckage of a collapsed bridge.
The Washington Transportation Department says 71,000 vehicles a day used the stretch of Interstate 5 through Mount Vernon that is now blocked by the collapse of the Skagit River bridge.
A large tree branch snapped and fell in northwest Portland Friday morning, taking power lines with it and crushing cars that were parked on the road.
Myah Bilton-Smith of Vancouver, Wash. said she was raped twice on a Texas Air Force base.
Portland has been waiting a long time for this. Minneapolis-based Target Corp. opens its first Portland CityTarget on July 28.
More than 8,000 homes lost power early Friday morning after a car crashed into a power pole.
The forecast for summer travel, 2013: Partly sunny.
A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs and other amphibians are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good.
Officer Chris Warren was fired once but the city of Beaverton gave him his job back. The reason he's kept his job is he has never been convicted of anything.
(Updated) I-5 Skagit River bridge collapse caused by oversize load (Photo Gallery) (Video)
