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Firework season is once again underway in Oregon, as the state’s annual 14-day legal purchasing window opened Tuesday. But fire officials are urging residents to leave fireworks to the experts, …
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Tarek Anthony / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/26/26
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Beaverton police identified the 14-year-old killed in a car crash on Wednesday as Jacob Tran.
The Beaverton Police Department said the crash happened as Tran, who was wearing a helmet, rode an …
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Alissa Gary / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/26/26
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Firefighters rescued two people from a powerful 2-alarm house fire in Hillsboro Thursday afternoon, officials said. Both victims “suffered life-threatening injuries” and are in a hospital.
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Douglas Perry / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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6/26/26
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A Tesla going nearly 80 mph will get any Washington state trooper's attention, especially when the officer sees the driver's head flopping back and forth" as the car changes lanes.
A Seattle …
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/26/26
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A wildfire ignited by lightning and burning in Olympic National Park was reported to be uncontained late Thursday afternoon, but rain is expected to help.
The fire, which started Monday, had …
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Lauren Girgis and Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/26/26
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Jilma Diaz-Demangue had envisioned herself attending a big public school like Washington State University right up until she toured Pacific Lutheran University.
It really stood out to me that a …
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Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/26/26
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A 15-year-old boy seemingly had no idea a SWAT team was waiting in a stairwell of a Skyway apartment building to arrest him last week when he walked out of a third-floor unit and was taken into …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/26/26
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The men who died Wednesday in an airplane crash into the Columbia River in the Tri-Cities were friends from Sonoma, Calif., flying to an event in Idaho.
The pilot was Randy J. Peterson, 64, and …
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Annette Cary Wendy Culverwell / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/26/26
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Standing outside the Franklin County Courthouse, a Kennewick man on Wednesday denied allegations that he stalked the adult daughter of a Washington state senator.
Trevor Delorme, 21, was charged …
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Eric Rosane / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/26/26
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Mead School District will pay $17 million to the families and victims of a 2023 hazing assault at a school football camp, a jury ruled Thursday.
Two former Mead High School students and their …
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Elena Perry and Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/26/26
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When a rock smashed the window of Capitol Hill's Analog Coffee last month, the owners were left with a $2,000 bill.
But within weeks, they were reimbursed the repair costs thanks to the city of …
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Alexis Weisend / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/26/26
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The death toll from the devastating double earthquake that struck Venezuela’s Caribbean coast climbed to at least 589 people early Friday, with 2,980 injured, as rescue crews raced to locate …
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Antonio María Delgado / Miami Herald (TNS)
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6/26/26
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For the second year in a row, Idaho had the highest housing unit growth rate in the nation — boasting a 2.1% increase in its housing stock in 2025, according to the Idaho Department of Labor. But …
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Abigail Gerstein / Idaho Capital Sun
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6/26/26
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Several hundred people turned out along the Willamette River on Thursday to celebrate a fish often misunderstood for its style but long revered for its substance.
Pacific lamprey, a jawless fish …
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Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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6/26/26
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Bigfoot is officially helping Oregon celebrate the country’s 250th birthday.
This September, the Dallas Area Visitors Center will host its second annual Bigfootstock, a one-day festival …
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Mia Maldonado / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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6/26/26
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Washington took a key step Thursday to combine its carbon market with one operating in California and Quebec, a move expected to drive down costs for carbon-emitting businesses once the programs are …
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Aspen Ford / Washington State Standard
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6/26/26
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A new lawsuit challenging a logging project in Oregon threatens to unravel the management plans governing hundreds of millions of acres of federal public land.
At stake are thousands of leases …
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Alex Brown / Washington State Standard
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6/26/26
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The Onalaska Farm Sanctuary (OFS) on Tuesday announced it had “amicably” resolved a lawsuit over a cat that disappeared last November.
The complaint, filed on behalf of Tammy Sturza in Lewis …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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6/25/26
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SEATTLE — Warning lights are flashing for Washington’s economy.
Job growth has been slower than expected , and the unemployment rate is above the national average. There are mounting layoffs …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street and Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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6/25/26
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A Centralia man faces possible prison time after he allegedly lied about being stabbed Tuesday, according to the Centralia Police Department.
Rick J. Summitt, 28, made a preliminary …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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6/25/26
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