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If you or someone you know has been unusually stressed about the fate of your tomato seedlings this month, it's not without cause.
This May has been one of the coldest and wettest on record in …
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Sydney Brownstone / The Seattle Times
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5/30/22
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In a worst case scenario, environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear reservation might not be completed for another 150 years, or possibly never, said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
He warned the …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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5/30/22
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CLYDE HILL — Clipboards in hand, Jenifer Short and Emily Tadlock strolled a swanky suburban neighborhood on a recent afternoon, checking homes against a list of voter registrations.
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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5/30/22
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Even in late May, when T-shirts take over and thermostats hit a balmy 70 degrees, patches of snow cling to the top of Mount Spokane.
Snow persists on many Pacific Northwest mountains well into …
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Colin Tiernan / The Spokesman-Review
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5/30/22
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A cougar attacked a 9-year-old girl attending a camp Saturday morning near Fruitland, in Stevens County.
The girl was injured and taken to a hospital, according to an email from Staci Lehman, …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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5/29/22
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The city of Portland is out $1.4 million after a person or group outside the city used a government email account to commit a fraudulent financial transaction, officials said Friday.
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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Ben Beers was deeply upset by Tuesday’s mass shooting in Texas that left 19 children and two of their teachers dead.
Beers, 27, is a gun owner as well as a stay-at-home dad with two young …
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Lizzy Acker / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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A 38-year-old man is accused of raping a Vancouver woman after escaping the day before from the prison camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, federal prosecutors said.
Federal …
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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The writer’s scheme called for a perfect crime. Then it crumbled.
For all her inventions on the page, Nancy Crampton Brophy’s plot to murder her husband unravelled almost immediately, …
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Zane Sparling / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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A Tacoma-area candidate for Washington state representative announced Friday her car was hit by gunfire in a road-rage incident in Tacoma.
Sharlett Mena, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that she …
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Sabrina Jiles / The News Tribune
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5/28/22
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Gov. Jay Inslee's appointments to an obscure regulatory panel last year have cost the state $70,000 in a public records lawsuit settlement — and forced the governor to rescind his appointees …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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A class-action lawsuit from last year demanding COVID-19 vaccines be immediately provided to all people incarcerated in Washington state prisons was dismissed Friday, as the bulk of the lawsuit's …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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As the nation focused on the massacre at a Texas elementary school, the superintendent of schools in Washington state issued a sober warning that a mass shooting could happen here, despite efforts to …
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Monica Velez / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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The City of Olympia has turned to a new permitting system to limit the number of parked vehicles on Ensign Road.
Various motor homes, campers and trailers have been parked on the road, creating …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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5/28/22
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Keep your eyes on the cloud cover forecast for Monday night into Tuesday morning, when Earth will pass through the remnants of a comet and we could possibly see a once-in-a-lifetime meteor …
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Christine Clarridge / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Pierce County jurors awarded about $2 million Friday to a former Western State Hospital nurse and three coworkers who were assaulted by a patient at the Lakewood facility.
Bernia Garner, Karen …
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Alexis Krell / The News Tribune
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5/27/22
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Washington motorists have been on the front lines of an epic surge in U.S. gas prices in the run-up to the summer driving season.
During the past month, Washington has ranked 15th in the U.S. for …
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Four bighorn sheep spotted in the center of the Hanford site on Tuesday were killed by the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The 580-square-mile nuclear reservation just north of …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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5/27/22
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has launched a poaching investigation after two Stevens County deputies stumbled upon four dead wolves in northeast Washington while on snowmobile …
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Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review
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5/27/22
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MOSES LAKE — Avian influenza has arrived in Grant County, according to the Grant County Health District.
According to Monica Mecham, a spokesperson for the Grant County Health District, …
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Charles H. Featherstone / Columbia Basin Herald
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5/27/22
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