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Washington state Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer fined Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington $300,000 on Wednesday, Jan. 7, for violations of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/12/26
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Huckleberries hold significant cultural and economic importance to tribes, local communities, businesses and personal use gatherers.
In the early 2000s, permitted commercial huckleberry …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/12/26
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Four Centralia Tigers reached the championship match of their respective brackets at the Black Hills Tournament over the weekend, and three won.
Benito Escalera (126), Hunter Van Der Hoff (132), …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/12/26
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Angelica Askey and Brooklynn Swenson knew they would be a package deal when deciding what was next after graduating from Rainier High School last summer.
The duo have been inseparable since …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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1/12/26
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Few players in the NWAC this season have seen a jump in production from year one to year two like James Grose.
Grose, a sophomore guard at Lower Columbia College and 2024 graduate of Napavine …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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1/12/26
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The Centralia High School powerlifting team kicked off the 2026 season on Saturday, Jan. 10, at the Red & Black Open in Yelm, bringing 22 lifters to compete across their respective weight …
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1/12/26
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Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read announced late Friday he will pare back Oregon’s voter rolls to exclude some people who have moved and not updated their address and who therefore have not …
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Betsy Hammond / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Oregon Health & Science University, one of the nation’s leading providers of transgender health services, stopped performing gender-affirming surgeries on patients 19 and under last year.
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Kristine de Leon / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Oregon’s top law enforcement officials have created a new tip line for people to provide information about the Thursday shooting of a Venezuelan couple by a federal agent in Southeast Portland, the …
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Fedor Zarkhin, Jamie Goldberg / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Immigration rights attorneys Friday night filed a motion urging a judge to halt a practice by federal officers of making immigration arrests without warrants in Oregon in a case that already has …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/11/26
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The years after the Great Recession were a kind of Goldilocks era in Oregon’s power market.
The state’s population and economy were growing robustly, yet power demand was flat. Major …
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Mike Rogoway / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Portland police arrested two people during Saturday night protests near the South Waterfront U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, thought the agency says both were wanted for …
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Sami Edge / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/11/26
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A 27-year-old snowboarder died on Thursday after crashing headfirst into a creek well at Stevens Pass, according to the King County sheriff's office.
A person with the snowboarder and a …
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Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Two backcountry recreators were killed in an avalanche Friday, according to the Kittitas County sheriff's office.
Two others survived. One suffered injuries, the Northwest Avalanche Center …
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Lulu Ramadan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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A series of storms moving into Northwest Washington this weekend is threatening another round of flooding in Whatcom County.
Moderate to heavy rain is expected to start Saturday night and last …
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Robert Mittendorf / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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1/11/26
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A Prosser man allegedly shot at a worker after refusing to pay for yard work.
The 39-year-old worker had just finished cleaning up a Spokane Avenue property on Jan. 5, but when he asked for …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Highway 2, the main route from Seattle to Leavenworth, reopened to regular traffic just east of Stevens Pass on Saturday, after the Washington State Department of Transportation finished emergency …
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Lulu Ramadan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Gov. Bob Ferguson’s first year in office has been shaped by a state budget crisis that was years in the making, and yet somehow arrived abruptly.
He and majority Democrats last year grappled …
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Jim Brunner and Shauna Sowers / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Fueled by torrential December rains, a nameless creek draining from Suiattle Mountain saw a landslide hurtle hip-high boulders, uproot trees and blow through a road.
It carved a roughly …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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