For the third year in a row, the Napavine TIgers were in the 2B state title game, and once again, quarterback Ashton Demarest was one of the best dual-threat options in all of 2B.
Demarest …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
12/25/23
|
He's got three Pro Bowl appearances, the single-season sack record for defensive backs and is in year two of a four-year, $70-million extension.
He was the prize that prompted the Seahawks to …
more
By Matt Calkins / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/24/23
|
Nearly half the babies in Washington are born into poor families.
This legislative session, some lawmakers and the state treasurer are once again trying to pass a proposal they say will break …
more
Ellen Dennis / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
|
12/24/23
|
SEATTLE — Two young men, both in their 20s, arrived at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center with gunshot wounds within minutes of one another on a recent afternoon.
They reportedly shot …
more
Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/24/23
|
No matter how humble or obscure, all plant, animal and insect life in America is eligible for protection under the Endangered Species Act, one of the most far-reaching and important conservation …
more
Lynda V. Mapes / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/24/23
|
A 4.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Olympic Peninsula on Sunday at 7:14 a.m. and it lightly shook homes from Victoria to Tacoma, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which gathered reports from a …
more
Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
|
12/24/23
|
A few years back, a bumper sticker with a blunt message enjoyed some fleeting popularity in a few of the Northwest's outer reaches:
"We don't give a damn how they did it in California."
And …
more
By The Yakima Herald-Republic Editorial Board (TNS)
|
12/24/23
|
The Toledo and Morton-White Pass girls basketball teams got a “special opportunity” on Friday, as the two teams took the court at the Moda Center in Portland, and it was Toledo that came …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
12/24/23
|
NAPAVINE — The glimpses were there to see Saturday in Napavine.
The Napavine girls basketball team had its moments of disorder and panic, its missed layups and its mental mistakes against …
more
By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
|
12/23/23
|
RAINIER — Just before the midway point of the second quarter on Saturday, the Rainier Mountaineers were a team without answers.
After taking an early lead, the Mountaineers allowed 15 …
more
By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
|
12/23/23
|
RAINIER — Just seven minutes into Rainier’s matchup with Brewster, the Mountaineers trailed by 16. The second quarter wasn’t much kinder, as Rainier entered halftime down 21.
…
more
By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
|
12/23/23
|
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles previewing the 2024 legislative session.
While the start of a new year is a reason for hope and optimism, the new year also means …
more
By Mitchell Roland / mitchell@chronline.com
|
12/23/23
|
According to the Washington State Health Care Authority, Indigenous people face above-average rates of opioid and fentanyl-related overdose deaths.
“American and Alaska Native people are …
more
By Jared Wenzelburger / jared@chronline.com
|
12/23/23
|
While newly elected Chehalis City Councilor Jody Kyes will be officially sworn in during the council’s first meeting next year on Jan. 8 for the District 4 seat, a District 1 seat formerly held …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
12/23/23
|
The Chehalis-Centralia Airport received $450,000 in two grants to update the airport’s master plan, part of nearly $200 million in federal funding airports throughout the state received this …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
12/23/23
|
Washington’s economy lost an estimated 2,600 jobs in November while unemployment ticked up to 4% for the first time in months, state officials said Wednesday.
That’s a reversal from …
more
By Randy Bracht /The Center Square
|
12/23/23
|
Washington state’s signature-verification procedures are meant to root out exceedingly rare cases of voter fraud. But what they’ve typically done is get a lot of innocent legal votes …
more
By Daniel Walters / InvestigateWest
|
12/23/23
|
A Lewis County resident will be a bit warmer over the holidays thanks to Chehalis Sheet Metal.
Kim Satcher, a longtime Toledo Elementary School secretary, was selected to receive a new heating …
more
By Mitchell Roland / mitchell@chronline.com
|
12/23/23
|
CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Theft
• A man reportedly “ate several doughnuts before leaving a store and not paying for them” in the 500 block of South Tower Avenue just …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
12/23/23
|
• CLARA MAY GORLEY, 84, Centralia, died Dec. 22 at Centralia Pointe Memory Care. Arrangements are under the care of Funeral Alternatives of Washington.
more
12/23/23
|