UPDATE: 8:39 PM Governor Inslee's office has issued the following statement: "Last week Trudi and I wanted to express comfort for the communities suffering from devastating fires. When I visited some ...

SPOKANE, Wash — Washington Governor Jay Inslee accidentally violated an apple maggot quarantine last week when he brought Honeycrisp apples from Olympia to the towns of Bridgeport and Malden, as well ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - A bill signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee renews funding for treatments to control apple maggot, a pest that poses a significant threat to the shipment of apples from ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Wash. — Washington Governor Jay Inslee gave apples to the towns of Bridgeport and Malden, as well as a retirement home in Omak, that were unknowingly infested with apple maggot larvae, ...

On a sunny spring afternoon near Selah, a crew hired by Yakima County cut down an apple tree. This wasn’t a case of a tree growing in the right-of-way of a new road or interfering with utility lines.

That dreaded insect, the apple maggot, has ruined many a crop from the backyard apple tree. The damage is made by worms that hatch from the eggs deposited on apples by flies. After feeding, the worms ...

A gesture of goodwill from Washington’s governor led to a hunt for maggot-infested apples he brought to areas of the state dealing with wildfires, Douglas County officials said. Gov. Jay Inslee ...

Q: My apple tree is healthy, but the past few years the insides of the apple fruits are full of brown streaks that I understand are caused by worms. The apples are very unappetizing. Is there a way to ...

What was meant to be a nice gesture to families who have lost their homes due to wildfires in eastern and central Washington has turned into a fiasco to track down missing maggot-infested apples that ...

SPOKANE, Wash — Washington Governor Jay Inslee accidentally violated an apple maggot quarantine last week when he brought Honeycrisp apples from Olympia to the towns of Bridgeport and Malden, as well ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Wash. — Washington Governor Jay Inslee gave apples to the towns of Bridgeport and Malden, as well as a retirement home in Omak, that were unknowingly infested with apple maggot larvae, ...