Rural residents in the three locations in Pierce and Thurston counties identified as possible sites for a new airport larger than Sea-Tac Airport can rest easy: No airport is coming their way.
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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A 3-year-old boy died Thursday, more than three weeks after he was shot in the head and taken to a Tukwila fire station by a family member.
The child, Finesse Ezell, was shot in a residence in …
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5/17/23
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Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz and her supporters gathered for a news conference Monday on the Seattle waterfront to tout her political record as the wide-open 2024 Washington gubernatorial …
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5/17/23
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Olympia-based Washington State Employees Credit Union has completed its merger with State Highway Credit Union.
With this week's merger, which was announced earlier this year, WSECU increases …
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Thomas Clouse / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/17/23
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A man was arrested after stealing a van with two children aboard from Hoquiam on Monday morning.
Anthony Dennis Hurley, 34, of Aberdeen, was booked into the county jail on charges of …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World (TNS)
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5/17/23
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WINTHROP, Wash. — On a subfreezing morning in March, Carmen Vanbianchi is crouched in the snow, cramming chunks of roadkill deer into a pouch she calls her meat purse.
She wrenches the …
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5/17/23
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Taking somewhat of an unconventional path to districts than what it is normally accustomed to, the W.F. West softball team clinched the final spot in the 2A District 4 tournament Tuesday afternoon …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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The Rainier softball team has had to grind through its share of slow starts this season, which made the lightning postponement that forced them home midway through the third inning of the …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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Gov. Jay Inslee vetoed a bill Monday that would have required the state to ask drivers to volunteer their odometer readings, a precursor to a long-discussed and still theoretical tax on miles …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/16/23
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday afternoon that will raise the penalty for drug possession to a gross misdemeanor and criminalize public drug use.
Earlier in the …
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Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/16/23
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A 30-year-old man shot and killed two people early Monday in a Lakewood apartment the day after his uncle died after overdosing in the same unit, according to charging documents.
Ontario Lavell …
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5/16/23
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A husband and wife got the scare of their lives when a man approached them and threatened to take their car and the woman for the night, according to Olympia police.
About 11 p.m. Friday, May …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/16/23
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No one has been arrested for killing a dog the afternoon of May 7 in Olympia, although detectives continue to investigate the incident, a spokesman for police said Tuesday.
Olympia police also …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/16/23
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In a typical week, the bulk of the Centralia Police Department’s call volume pertains to security issues at local businesses, with reports ranging from theft to a person acting unusual or …
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By Emily Fitzgerald /emily@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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Bail has been set at $100,000 for a Pacific Beach man accused of fleeing from Centralia police officers at high speeds in a stolen vehicle on Monday before crashing the vehicle in Thurston …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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A call reporting a man was slumped behind the wheel of a pickup truck in Centralia on Monday resulted in officers recovering a vehicle that was stolen from a local construction company in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/16/23
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The Toledo softball team that came north to Rec Park for the second time Tuesday looked a fair bit different than the one that had made the trip Monday, and the new-look Riverhawks exploded right out …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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A massive landslide on Sunday night took out a section of the upper portion of state Route 504, also known as Spirit Lake Highway.
As of Tuesday morning, only one thing was certain: It’s …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/16/23
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As of 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 74 candidates had filed for 65 different spots in small governments across Lewis County and beyond, including several city council, school board and fire commissioner …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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5/16/23
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May 15, 2023: On the 143rd episode of The Chronicle News Dump hosts Aaron VanTuyl and Editor-in-Chief Eric Schwartz and assistant editor Isabel Vander Stoep discuss our newest tire pile and speedrun …
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5/16/23
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