The Goat Rocks Fire has burned 4,193 acres as of Monday morning and is still 0% contained, according to an incident management team update on Monday.
Officials are still holding out for the start …
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By The Chronicle staff
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10/3/22
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The Lewis-Pacific Swiss Society held Oktoberfest in Frances on Saturday. The 53rd Oktoberfest in the Pacific County town was held after two years of cancellations due to COVID-19 restrictions. The …
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10/3/22
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Centralia’s 1,800 students were expected to join students throughout the nation from Oct. 5 to Oct. 17, 1942, in staging an “all-out drive for scrap metal,” a shortage of which was …
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Compiled by Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com
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10/3/22
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It’s a Tuesday night at the RV Inn Style Convention Center in Vancouver, and congressional candidates Joe Kent and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez are dressed to look sharp. Kent, a former special …
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By Joseph O’Sullivan / Crosscut.com
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10/3/22
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Teams raced down East Seventh Street during the Boo-coda Pine Box Derby Casket Races on Saturday.
Six teams competed in the event in which participants look to clock the fastest time. …
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10/3/22
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The statewide debate between green energy initiatives and the home construction industry's preferences moved to Yakima City Hall last week as the Washington State Building Code Council held a public …
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Joel Donofrio / Yakima Herald-Republic
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10/3/22
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Last October, Amy and Sarah Bailey spent hours decorating for Lucian Munguia's 4th birthday, twisting blue streamers to mimic the curl of ocean waves and hanging a sea of fish from the …
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Kate Smith / Yakima Herald-Republic
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10/3/22
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Olympia fire and police units were called to the scene of an explosion Sunday evening at West Bay Marina.
The Olympia Fire Department tweeted at around 7:45 p.m. Oct. 2 that one boat had been …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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10/3/22
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Thurston County has found a new organization to issue to rent and utility checks to low-income residents after breaking with its previous provider.
Last week, the Board of County Commissioners …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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10/3/22
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The Tacoma apartment was listed as wheelchair accessible, but it didn't matter, because Krystal Monteros couldn't get there in the first place.
When the bus dropped her at the closest stop, …
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David Kroma / The Seattle Times
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10/3/22
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Opening statements are expected Monday in the retrial of a man accused of premeditated murder for his alleged role as getaway driver for Maurice Clemmons, who in 2009 walked into a coffee shop and …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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10/3/22
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For four days, Walla Walla was the home of the reigning champion of Jeopardy!
That changed Friday, Sept. 30, as David Sibley of Walla Walla lost to Cris Pannullo, a customer success operations …
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Jeremy Burnham / Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
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10/3/22
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Washington State Patrol Trooper Dean Atkinson Jr. is back home in Walla Walla.
Nine days after he was shot and badly wounded in an ambush in Walla Walla on West Poplar Street near the …
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Jeremy Burnham / Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
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10/3/22
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A Whatcom County man reportedly rammed the patrol vehicle of a Bellingham Police officer Saturday along Lakeway Drive, got out wielding a knife and shouted for the officer to shoot him.
John C. …
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David Rasbach / The Bellingham Herald
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10/3/22
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Those commuting this week between Thurston and Lewis counties should prepare for possible "long delays and backups," according to the state Department of Transportation.
That's because portions of …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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10/2/22
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A crowd of outraged fishermen gathered around an angler caught cheating at an Ohio fishing tournament, the evidence literally spilling out in front of everyone, video shows.
The angler is one of …
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Mitchell Willetts / The Charlotte Observer / (TNS)
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10/2/22
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UniEnergy Technologies planned to do it all — build the battery of the future, create good American jobs, crack the code for clean energy.
Powered by a new chemical recipe cooked up in a …
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By Zachariah Bryan / InvestigateWest
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10/2/22
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As Nichole Schwend weaves through the basalt rocks that litter Celebration Park, she points to faint engravings on the dark desert rocks and asks visitors what they see.
One carving near …
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Shaun Goodwin / Idaho Statesman (TNS)
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10/2/22
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Editor’s Note: This story was originally published by The Chronicle in December 2020.
BUCODA — Bucoda Volunteer Park sits empty on a 37-degree December afternoon. The dozen picnic …
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By Eric Trent / The Chronicle
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10/2/22
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Blood donations are down close to 50 percent at Bloodworks Northwest, the supplier of all of the donated blood in Clark County and 95 percent of the donated blood in Western Washington and Oregon.
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Nika Bartoo-Smith / The Columbian
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10/2/22
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