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Grays Harbor County District 3 Commissioner Vickie Raines announced her intention to resign from the Board of County Commissioners Tuesday morning via email.
“Just a quick note, I’ll be …
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By Jerry Knaak / The Daily World
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2/18/26
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Neither Longview School District nor the school's resource officer reported accusations of an alleged sexual assault involving Mark Morris High School to the police , despite school employees being …
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Minka Atkinson / The Daily News
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2/18/26
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On the 266th episode of The Chronicle News Dump, hosts Aaron VanTuyl and Editor-in-Chief Eric Schwartz break down the Grand Old Partyboys’ Red White and Blow drug ring accusations, the county …
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2/17/26
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Authorities say a truck pulled from the Cowlitz River near Gerhart Gardens Park over the weekend belonged to a man whose family is looking for him.
Undersheriff Troy Brightbill, of the Cowlitz …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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2/17/26
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Two Chehalis men accused of a drive-by shooting in the Centralia Safeway parking lot on Feb. 13 made preliminary appearances in Lewis County Superior Court Tuesday.
Nickolas Holmgren, 21, and …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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2/17/26
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Concerned citizens and local agencies banded together to rescue an injured bald eagle from southbound Interstate 5 in the Tumwater area on Sunday.
The bird was clipped by a semi-truck and …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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2/17/26
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday asked the Trump administration for up to $173 million to deal with damage to roads, levees and more from flooding in December, and prepare for similar future …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/17/26
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Washington state moved one step closer Monday to creating a personal income tax two years after the Legislature said it wouldn’t.
Majority Democrats in the Senate advanced legislation on a …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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2/16/26
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The “Tracy Murphy for Sheriff” campaign issued a statement shortly before 4 p.m. Monday addressing what it called a "politically motivated” anonymous complaint filed with the Washington state …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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2/16/26
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After several hours of heated debate, legislation that many consider to be the most contentious bill to come before the Washington Legislature in many years passed the state Senate Monday.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/16/26
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It's not just raising and releasing fish in a hatchery that gets students out of the classroom in Onalaska.
For several years, students from Onalaska High School have had the opportunity to step …
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By Ridley Hudson / ridley@chronline.com
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2/16/26
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The Port of Centralia Commission is nearing completion of its job posting for its next executive director following a workshop Wednesday, Feb. 11.
Commissioners Peter Lahmann and Ally Pickard, …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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2/16/26
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A Cowlitz County Superior Court judge did not lower the sentence of a Kelso man convicted of murder eight years ago after a Washington state Supreme Court decision allowed him to be resentenced.
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By Hayley Day / The Daily News
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2/16/26
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Though rain was in the forecast, it never fell in Winlock on Valentine’s Day morning — which was good news for the dozens of customers gathered outside of The Evergreen Egg, Lewis County’s …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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2/16/26
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A Boys and Girls Club of Lewis County event on Monday morning sent 36 local children home with free bikes.
But first, volunteers, family members and friends helped the young ones assemble them.
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/16/26
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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Arrests
• Anthony J. Benoit, 21, Kansas, was arrested in the 500 block of North Iron Street at about 1:14 a.m. Feb. 14 after allegedly pointing a firearm at …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/16/26
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The Washington state Department of Health charged a Lewis County home care aide with unprofessional conduct in January, according to a recent news release from the agency.
The state agency …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/16/26
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Of the many churches, businesses and organizations in Lewis County that host annual Easter egg hunts, The Huntting’s Pumpkin Patch and Haunted Forest’s egg hunt draws the biggest crowds by far, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/16/26
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As a teenager in the late 1940s stranded in Lewiston, Idaho, where she knew nobody, Mazie (Donner) Schlickeiser, of Chehalis, ate occasional meals at a small restaurant in a five-and-dime store.
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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2/16/26
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The typical crew of a Willapa Bay crab boat consists of three people: a puller who fishes each crab pot’s line and buoy out of the water, a baiter who switches out the bait, and a driver who pilots …
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By Riley Yuan / Chinook Observer / Murrow News
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2/16/26
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