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Sound Transit CEO Dow Constantine will ring in the new year a bit wealthier, but chose to postpone most of his 2026 pay raises until light rail trains finally carry passengers across Lake Washington.
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Mike Lindblom / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/1/26
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The new year is here, and with it come changes to wages and laws in Washington.
Starting Thursday, the state minimum wage is $17.13 an hour, up from $16.66 an hour in 2025, maintaining …
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Shauna Sowers / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/1/26
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Historic floods that tore through Western Washington last month have exposed a gap in state law that left many of the region’s most vulnerable people unprepared for disaster and financially …
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Alexis Weisend / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/1/26
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Bail is set at $75,000 for a man who was found passed out drunk in a vehicle along U.S. Highway 12 in the Morton area Tuesday night.
Daniel Glenn Price, 38, of Centralia, was reportedly …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/31/25
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A Winlock man is facing a felony assault charge for allegedly shoving his elderly mother to the ground.
David Todd Thrailkill, 58, was arrested and booked into the Lewis County Jail at …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/31/25
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Scammers have taken over a phone number that used to host a Washington state vaccine hotline, and state officials say they’re using it to coax banking information from unsuspecting callers.
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Elliot Njus / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/31/25
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered the National Guard to leave three U.S. cities, including Portland.
In a social media post that railed against Democrat mayors and governors of …
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Jonathan Bach / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/31/25
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A 44-year-old Oregon woman who says she was born after fertility workers mistakenly inseminated her mother decades ago with the wrong man’s sperm filed a $17 million lawsuit last week against …
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Aimee Green / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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12/31/25
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The City of Tumwater cannot cut down the historic Davis-Meeker Garry oak tree without approval from the city’s Historic Preservation Commission, a Thurston County judge ruled Dec. 26.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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12/31/25
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Thurston, Clark, King and Snohomish counties granted $6.6M in federal funds for road safety programs
Selected communities in four Western Washington counties will receive a combined $6.58 million in federal funding for road safety improvements, as new data shows a decline in fatal and serious injury …
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By Spencer Pauley / The Center Square
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12/31/25
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Recent raids by the Department of Homeland Security in Minnesota over allegations of mass childcare center fraud has inspired scrutiny over similar licensed businesses in Washington state, while the …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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12/31/25
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A Salkum man is set to be sentenced Jan. 7 for sexually assaulting a child between 2013 and 2015.
Brady Murray Figueredo, 38, pleaded guilty Dec. 3 to one count each of indecent liberties …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/31/25
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Weather delays. Canceled flights. Sunsets at 3 p.m. and plenty of rain.
While the girls and boys basketball programs at Toledo High School didn’t get to see much outside of the square footage …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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12/31/25
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The U.S. Postal Service has adopted a new rule that could create doubt about whether some ballots mailed by voters by Election Day will receive postmarks in time to be counted.
A USPS rule that …
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Jonathan Shorman / Stateline
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12/31/25
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The Seattle-based cryptocurrency company linked to multiple bitcoin ATMs in Whatcom County has resumed full operations in the state following a temporary cease-and-desist order by the Washington …
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Hannah Edelman / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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12/31/25
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The Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park is expected to reopen the first week of January, nearly a month after the Upper Hoh Road was damaged by flooding.
The atmospheric river storm on Dec. …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/31/25
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Parts of Alaska Airlines’ website and mobile app went down Tuesday morning, preventing users from logging in to their accounts to book or view travel plans.
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Lauren Rosenblatt / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/31/25
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A significant percentage of 1,500 Latino patients in Washington state who had been diagnosed with COVID reported in a survey that they had experienced long COVID symptoms, according to a UW Medicine …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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12/31/25
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The Capitol is quiet this week, with Congress out of town for its end-of-year recess, but lawmakers are gearing up for what promises to be a hectic few weeks of work when the Senate returns on …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/31/25
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The federal allocation to Washington for rural health care appears to have been trimmed because it has not implemented some of President Donald Trump's goals.
Washington was awarded $181 million …
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Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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12/31/25
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