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Richard Bach, who authored the popular Jonathan Livingston Seagull and Illusions, was injured Friday when the light plane he was piloting crashed as he tried to land on San Juan Island, Wash.

Dry, windy conditions are making it difficult to control the fire, which is one of many burning across the West.

Earthcorps members from more than 60 countries work daily to restore and invigorate the Puget Sound bio-network.

The Death Cab for Cutie singer is a long-time fan of Seattle's baseball team. With superstar Ichiro Suziki's trade to the Yankees, his tribute in song has new meaning.

The country's newest and largest automobile museum opened in Tacoma, Wash., over the weekend. The LeMay America's Car Museum takes up 165,000 square feet in a four-story building. Harold LeMay was a self-made millionaire who owned more than 3,000 vehicles.

Top stories include a look at the U.S. job creation numbers for May, which were modest; and the UN's top commissioner for human rights warns Syria is on the precipice of civil war.

But Lawrence Adams deflects the attention he's getting. He says the real hero is the barista who alerted police. A gunman killed four people at a cafe on Wednesday, and another person nearby, before taking his own life.

His brother's mental illness changed him into a very angry person, the alleged gunman's brother says.

The U.S. Navy is in the process of renewing its permits to conduct sonar and explosive tests off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. But the recent unexplained death of a young orca who washed ashore in February has thrown a wrench in the process. Experts say injuries to the whale may indicate she was exposed to an underwater explosion or sonar testing.

About 1 in 5 infants who get whooping cough will get pneumonia, and in some cases die. In Washington state, confirmed cases are 10 times as high as they were last year.