LINDSEY WASSON

Suquamish Seafoods diver Joshua George returns to the F/V Carriere after a sample harvest of geoducks to send in for testing on the waters of Puget Sound near Suquamish, Wash., on Monday, April 21, 2025 (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
AP PHOTOS: How a Chinese delicacy got caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war
 
Noel Johansen, center, whose wife Jenifer Darbellay died after a vehicle drove into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival, hugs an attendee at a vigil outside Sir Alexander Mackenzie Elementary School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
5-year-old girl and her parents among the dead in a car attack at a Filipino festival in Vancouver
A 5-year-old girl and her parents were among the 11 people killed in a car attack during a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver. The family left behind a 16-year-old son who stayed home to finish his homework.
 
Visitors pay their respects at a memorial after a vehicle drove into a crowd during a Filipino heritage festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, April 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
AP PHOTOS: A vehicle plows into a Filipino street festival crowd in Vancouver
 
Eep Bolaño listens as IAM District 751 president Jon Holden announces that the union voted to accept a new contract offer from Boeing, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, at their union hall in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Boeing’s machinists strike is over but the troubled aerospace giant still faces many challenges
Factory workers at Boeing have voted to accept a contract offer and end their strike after more than seven weeks. That clears the way for the company to restart idled Pacific Northwest assembly lines.
 
EDS NOTE: OBSCENITY - A Boeing employee holds up flyers encouraging others to vote no on a new contract offer from the company, Monday, Nov. 4, 2024, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Boeing machinists hold contract vote that could end their 7-week strike
The voting has closed for unionized factory workers at Boeing who were deciding whether to accept a contract offer or to extend their strike.
 
Boeing employees Cham Sin, in black, and Lou Saephanh, right center, wave signs as Boeing workers continue to strike Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, near the company's factory in Renton, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Boeing gives union more time to vote on an offer that’s getting poor reviews from striking workers
Boeing is giving the union for 33,000 striking workers more time, but it still wants a vote on its latest contract proposal. The strike entered its 12th day Tuesday with no end in sight.
 
Boeing wing mechanic lead Lee Lara, who has worked for the company for 16 years, yells in response to honks from passing drivers as workers wave picket signs while striking after union members voted to reject a contract offer, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, near the company's factory in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Boeing says it’s considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists
Boeing says it’s considering temporary layoffs to save cash during the strike by machinists. The company told employees Monday that it will freeze hiring, reduce travel and reduce spending on suppliers.
 
Boeing Machinists Union member Stephanie Corona waves to passing traffic while on the picket line at the Everett plant, Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/John Froschauer)
Striking Boeing factory workers say they are ready to hold out for a better contract
Blue-collar workers from Boeing are walking picket lines in the Pacific Northwest instead of building airplanes after overwhelmingly rejecting a proposed contract that would have raised their wages by 25% over four years.
 
Seattle Mariners' Mitch Haniger tries to avoid a dousing during the celebration of the team's 2-1 win over the Chicago White Sox in 10 innings in a baseball game Wednesday, June 12, 2024, in Seattle. Haniger drove in the winning run. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
An AP photographer explains why a good action photo is often about the cropping
Photographer Lindsey Wasson is in her second year covering baseball — and other events in the Pacific Northwest — for The Associated Press.
 
Briena Mae Rabang, 10, holds the ashes of her great-grandmother Sharlene Rabang, who was named as the 100th victim of the Lahaina wildfire, while posing for a photo with her father Branden, left, and grandfather Brandon, right, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Kahului, Hawaii. Sharlene's family fought to have her listed as a victim due to smoke inhalation after she died weeks after fleeing the fire. "Me and my mom was really close, we talked multiple times a day," Brandon said. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
She died weeks after fleeing the Maui wildfire. Her family fought to have her listed as a victim.
A wildfire that tore through the heart of the Hawaii island of Maui this summer showed how older residents are at particular risk from disasters. Sixty of the 100 people killed in the Maui fire this summer were 65 or older.
 
Burnt chairs sit in the former social hall of the Lahaina Hongwanji Mission, destroyed by wildfire, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Recovery efforts continue after the August wildfire that swept through the Lahaina community on Hawaiian island of Maui, the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Heart of Hawaii’s historic Lahaina, scene of deadly wildfire, reopens to residents after 4 months
The heart of the historic town of Lahaina that burned in a deadly wildfire that killed at least 100 people on the Hawaiian island of Maui is reopening to residents and business owners holding day passes.
 
Jonnie Narita, 24, whose grandfather George Nakagawa was a baseball star at the camp, poses for a portrait in front of a recreated baseball diamond at Minidoka National Historic Site, Saturday, July 6, 2023, in Jerome, Idaho. It wasn't until after Nakagawa's family convinced him to attend the celebration of the reconstructed diamond in 2016 that he began to share more of his incarceration experience. "Without [this] place we wouldn't have all these family stories from my grandpa," said Narita. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
People who make pilgrimages to a World War II Japanese American incarceration camp and their stories
JEROME, Idaho (AP) — The gnats are back, swarming near my face. But I am a visitor and can leave whenever I want.
 
Paul Tomita poses for a portrait in a historic barracks at Minidoka National Historic Site, Saturday, July 8, 2023, in Jerome, Idaho. Tomita, who had asthma as an infant, says the constant desert dust that seeped even into the barracks repeatedly sent him to the camp hospital. "Dust on your face, dust in your ears, dust up your nose, dust in your mouth," he remembers. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past.
In the vast, high desert of southern Idaho is a place called Minidoka. After Japan’s Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, this is where the U.S. government incarcerated over 13,000 Japanese American men, women and children as security risks because of their ancestry.