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Officials with the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity announced they have increased the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction for the illegal killing of a …
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By Clark Corbin / Idaho Capital Sun
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1/19/26
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A former one-term Republican lawmaker who lost his reelection primary in a landslide after splitting with the party over abortion rights and transgender health care is running for the Oregon House …
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By Julia Shumway / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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1/19/26
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Nationwide, the number of people buying health plans on Obamacare insurance marketplaces is down by about 833,000 compared with a year ago, according to federal data released this week.
Many …
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By Nada Hassanein / States Newsroom
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1/19/26
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Congress this week approved a $3.2 billion budget for the Hanford nuclear reservation’s cleanup in fiscal 2026 — a more than $200 million increase from the prior two years.
That is more than …
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By John Stang / The Washington State Standard
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1/19/26
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Avery Ping had a knack for noticing who in a room might be having a bad day and checking in on them. He wanted to be a psychiatrist.
But the Olympia teen was addicted to his screen, his …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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1/19/26
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Portland police on Friday arrested 34-year-old Dayla Causey on suspicion of murder in the 2022 death of Portland Uber driver Shaani Mohamed.
Causey is the fourth person charged in the case in …
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Sami Edge / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/18/26
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One man was killed and at least two others were injured in a shooting outside a hookah lounge in Seattle's Chinatown International District early Saturday, Seattle police said.
Police found …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks and Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/18/26
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Amanda Lybeck, 37, is giving up alcohol for all 12 months of 2026. A year ago, the Maple Valley resident completed Dry January — the trend of going sober for one month — for the first time as a …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/18/26
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T Line riders no longer have to take alternative bus transportation next week as railway construction was indefinitely postponed, David Jackson, a spokesperson for Sound Transit, told The News …
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Bonny Matejowsky / The News Tribune (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Portland police said Friday they have arrested a teen in the fatal shooting last October of Andrew “Andy” Nguyen.
Police did not name the suspect in a news release but said the 17-year-old …
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Jonathan Bach / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday marking the birth of the civil rights leader who was slain in 1968. But Americans who want to spend the day at one of the country's 63 national …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Building on a 2025 Washington law that jacked up fines for littering, a new bill would create a task force focused on curtailing litter statewide, including keeping it out of parks, rest areas, …
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Erick Bengel / Walla Walla Union-Bulletin (TNS)
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1/17/26
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A Renton double-homicide cold case that went unsolved for over three decades finally closed Friday after a 55-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a young mother and her …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Funding for programs that markedly help Washington’s homeless students may become collateral damage under state budget cuts and turmoil in the federal government, advocates say.
The state …
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Ryan Nguyen / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Age verification could soon be required to access websites that host sexual adult content under a new bill in the Legislature heard Friday in the House Consumer Protection and Business Committee.
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Shauna Sowers / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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Local public health teams are racing to verify vaccination records with families and students in two Washington counties, hoping to get ahead of the spread of measles amid the state’s first …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/17/26
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An Olympia man was charged Friday in Thurston County Superior Court for connections to a body found on a dead-end roadway in the Yelm area on Jan. 12.
James Wade Brady, 67, currently …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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1/16/26
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A 30-year-old Federal Way man faces felony charges in Lewis County after he allegedly sped from pursuing police on Interstate 5 at speeds of approximately 110 mph.
According to the probable …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/16/26
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A hit-and-run collision on Interstate 5 outside Napavine Friday morning resulted in four people being transported to a hospital, according to a news release from the Washington State Patrol.
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/16/26
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The hiker found dead in the Rochester area on Jan. 11 has been identified as Jon Bryant, 62, of Centralia.
The Thurston County Coroner’s Office confirmed Friday, Jan. 16, that Bryant …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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1/16/26
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