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The sale of the psychoactive plant kratom and its extracts is now banned in Spokane after the city council approved Mayor Lisa Brown's proposal to prohibit the otherwise unregulated substance within …
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Emry Dinman / The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. (TNS)
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3/3/26
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Washingtonians, already familiar with high pump prices, could soon be paying even more for gas, as global oil supply chains face potentially prolonged disruptions due to the war raging in the Middle …
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Jessica Fu / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/3/26
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Forty-one people were displaced when multiple units in an Everett apartment complex caught fire Monday morning, firefighters said.
Crews responded to a fire at the CentrePointe Apartments on …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/3/26
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King County attracts new residents from around the country and around the world — that's nothing new. But as the rate of new arrivals has picked up, the share of county residents who were born …
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/3/26
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The city of Seattle on Monday agreed to pay The Seattle Times nearly $160,000 to settle a lawsuit that accused the Seattle Police Department of delaying the release of public records through a policy …
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Patrick Malone / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/3/26
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The state Attorney General's Office can enforce subpoenas to determine whether charitable funds were used to cover up sexual abuse by clergy members, a Washington appeals court ruled Monday.
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Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/3/26
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of plaintiffs in a lawsuit against a California law that allowed public schools to conceal a student’s “gender transitions” from their parents, a …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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A $100 million grant program funded by Washington taxpayers in 2025 to boost law enforcement hiring and training has yet to be accessed by cities and counties across the state.
Some local …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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British Columbia is leaving Washington state in the past this fall. Literally.
The Canadian province will stay one hour in the future come November after adopting year-round daylight saving time …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/3/26
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Columbia River shipping industry leaders say there is a growing risk the Lewis and Clark Bridge between Rainier and Longview could be hit by a large vessel and possibly collapse.
About four …
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By Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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3/3/26
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Big technology companies scored a win in Olympia on Monday, as a sweeping bill to regulate data centers lapsed in the Washington state Legislature.
House Bill 2515 would have required data …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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3/3/26
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We’re in the home stretch of Washington’s 2026 legislative session.
It means a near-constant culling of the legislation that lawmakers are considering. Monday and last Wednesday marked …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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3/3/26
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The United Arab Emirates and Qatar are privately lobbying allies to help them persuade President Donald Trump to reach for an off-ramp that would keep U.S. military operations against Iran short, …
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Alex Wickham and Ben Bartenstein / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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3/3/26
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The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran reverberated across the region for a fourth day, with oil and gas prices surging and the world adjusting to a conflict that President Donald Trump says has no fixed …
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Patrick Sykes and Christine Burke / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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3/3/26
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A dozen Washington tech sector leaders have released a letter warning that a proposed income tax on people making $1 million or more a year could undermine their industry's development and …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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3/2/26
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Republicans in the Washington State House of Representatives pushed back with all they had on Saturday, offering amendments and objections to majority Democrats' supplemental operating budget .
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/2/26
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A Washington state politician who went topless at a rally for transgender individuals won’t be kicked out of office, after a ruling by the state Supreme Court.
A recall petition sought to oust …
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By John O’Brien / Legal Newsline
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3/2/26
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The Washington state House-proposed supplemental capital budget includes just over a quarter of a million dollars in funding for American Legion Veteran Housing and Resource Center, among other …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/2/26
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Lewis County Hospital District No. 1, doing business as Arbor Health, recently elected Commissioner Wes McMahan to serve as board chair and Commissioner Chris Schumaker as board secretary.
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/2/26
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Lewis County is considering permitting the sale of cannabis within the county’s unincorporated areas as it looks for new revenue options to shore up its budget in the future.
Lewis County …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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3/2/26
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