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Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world.

The Washington State Senate has unanimously passed a bill that would create a loan repayment program for forensic pathologists, the only doctors who can perform an autopsy. It also greenlights a study for longer-term solutions to the critical shortage.

The coroner in Cowlitz County is facing potential criminal charges after two state investigations found he personally received more than $12,600 in…

In Washington’s smallest counties, elected prosecutors investigate suspicious and unusual deaths when they aren’t trying cases. Some say the dual role is…

Since its founding more than a century ago, Washington state has seen few changes to the way sudden or unusual deaths are investigated. And experts from…

A new law going into effect in 2021 will, in part, provide more funding for training in the state's system of death investigation. The change is the first…

Nicole MacMaster remembers her mom, Frankie "Ellen" Schmitz, as a doting grandmother who loved to crochet. Christmastime was her favorite, and she always…

It isn’t often a coroner gets to deliver good news. Last week was an exception for Hayley Thompson.The Skagit County coroner learned her office was…

Dr. Carl Wigren could stand in for just about any medical examiner as seen on TV. He’s witty, a fast talker who knows a lot about investigating deaths.In…