A battle over farms, wine and tourism has been brewing for years in the beautiful area surrounding Woodinville, and that battle is finally coming to a head.

Visitors who fly to the Yakima Valley and buy a case of wine will soon be able to check it for free on an outbound Alaska Airlines flight.

In the tiny town of La Conner, silence is golden - and tourism is rich.

Washington is the only state in America without a tourism office, but Seattle is still getting passing grades when it comes to the latest tourism numbers.

This summer cash-strapped Washington became the only state in the nation to close its tourism office. Now, a private group of tourism boosters are trying to promote Washington state to visitors.

Hotels came up with the idea of the $2 fee last year when the state said it would cut the entire tourism budget. The fee would pay for ads to help attract visitors now that the state tourism office has shut down.

Starting Thursday, Washington state will be the only one in the country without a tourism office. And additional slashes to the state budget could mean Hollywood won't shoot anymore motion pictures here.

Washington is dead last on the amount of money it spends on efforts to attract tourists. And what's worse, its tourism office shuts down next week. Merchants have scrambled to form a co-op in an effort to keep tourism alive.

New shipping lanes, increasing tourism, new access to fish stocks and especially the promise of oil and gas drilling have set off something of an Arctic gold rush, and the Coast Guard's presence in the region is a far cry from what it needs to be, he said.

The Seattle Center is a hot bed for tourism, but could soon become a focal point for anti-prostitution efforts. The city is looking to expand police powers to fight the sex trade in the neighborhood.

Nutcracker Woody Goomsba is revealing his sexy side in Leavenworth's latest ad campaign, but not everyone likes what they see.

A Puyallup man accused of showing coworkers photographs of himself and children taken during a sex tourism trip to the Philippines has been charged with possession of child pornography.

Boeing has lined up a space tourism company to sell seats on the spaceship it wants to build to fly to the International Space Station.

Federal authorities claim Glenn Richard Allen was caught with 200 to 300 DVDs showing himself sexually abusing Thai children at his condominium in the resort town of Pattaya City, located outside of Bangkok.

After a dismal 2009, city officials are optimistic better times are ahead for 2010, highlighted by a new cruise sailing.