Crews kept the flames from reaching nearby homes and stopped the fire before it spread past the Interurban Trail.

A motorcyclist died after a crash with a car on Interstate 5 in Tacoma Thursday afternoon. State patrol troopers were dispatched to the highway near South 56th Street for the crash at around 2:24 p.m., according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Caltrans cautioned drivers to expect delays and watch for workers on Interstate 5, Highway 44 and Highway 273 bridges in Shasta and Tehama counties.

When an interstate closes for a full weekend, does it make a sound? No. At least that's what a small group of people gathered at downtown Seattle's Plymouth Pillars Park Saturday afternoon were hoping when they hosted a party on a perch overlooking a half-empty Interstate 5 to celebrate a temporary reprieve from the roar of I-5 traffic.

A paving project will close all lanes of Interstate 5 in Bellingham on Tuesday and Wednesday night, the Washinton State Department of Transportation said. Northbound I-5 will close from Sunset Drive to Meridian Street from 10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, to 5 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20.

A motor vehicle crash has traffic snarled up in the area of southbound Interstate 5 and the Highway 126 interchange, according to Tripcheck.com.

A crash on Interstate 5 near the Tacoma Dome has blocked the southbound HOV lane Tuesday morning. The crash at milepost 134.1 was reported at 10:33 a.m., according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. Traffic was delayed past the Puyallup River bridge.

A crash is blocking the left lane of northbound Interstate 5 traffic just south of Iowa Street in Bellingham, according to a social media post from the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) at 2:04 p.m. Aug 22.

KALAMA, Wash. — A wildfire broke out along Interstate 5 in the southwest Washington city of Kalama on Thursday afternoon. The Cowlitz County Department of Emergency Management first reported the fire at about 1:45 p.m. near North Hendrickson, to the west of Interstate 5 along the Columbia River.