Terrorism

FBI warned of neo-Nazi plots as attacks on Northwest grid spiked

As a string of attacks on electrical substations unfolded in Oregon and Washington in 2022, the FBI was warning utilities of white supremacists’ plots to take down the nation’s power grid. A KUOW/OPB investigation reveals the scope of the threat to the Northwest grid.

Crime

Suspects in Christmas grid attacks planned additional crimes, prosecutors say

The men charged with attacking four substations in Pierce County on Christmas day were plotting even more attacks on the power grid before they were arrested, according to federal prosecutors.

Crime

String of electrical grid attacks in Pacific Northwest are unsolved

Electric substations in the Northwest have been attacked, at least two with firearms, according to documents obtained by OPB and KUOW.

Crime

Officials demand answers after apparent sabotage of oil train

Some legislators are calling for action in the wake of a federal report on the apparent sabotage of an oil train north of Bellingham last year.

Sabotage caused Washington oil-train disaster, rail union says

The oil train came apart on the snowy tracks north of Bellingham shortly after the locomotive engineer got the mile-long chain of petroleum tanks on wheels under way.