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The owners of a Walla Walla gas station are on the hook for nearly $5 million in fines and cleanup response costs for an underground gas leak that shut down a historic hotel in 2023.
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Tri-City Herald staff / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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9/4/25
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With one member in opposition, the Yakima City Council voted on Tuesday to repeal a policy that permitted nonprofits to paint rainbow crosswalks if they covered all of the costs.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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9/4/25
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Surrounded by business leaders and government officials, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson said Thursday a new report from the Office of Financial Management paints a grim picture of what President …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/4/25
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WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vehemently defended his actions on vaccines and other public health issues under questioning by both Republican and …
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By Jennifer Shutt / States Newsroom
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9/4/25
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Washington’s grocery prices could grow more than 16% if President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs are allowed to continue, predicts a new state report released Thursday.
So if …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/4/25
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Donald W. Hogan, 52, of Auburn, was charged Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court for violation of a court order, domestic violence, a class C felony punishable by up to five years in prison and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/4/25
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John M. Williford, 30, of Centralia, was charged Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court with one count of residential burglary, one count of third-degree malicious mischief and one count of …
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/4/25
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Estebon E. Perkins, 41, of Centralia, was charged Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court with one count of motor vehicle theft, a class B felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and $20,000 in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/4/25
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(The Center Square) – The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is launching an investigation into the “impact of the Biden Border Crisis” on Medicaid, saying it cost …
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Sarah Roderick-Fitch | The Center Square
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9/4/25
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(The Center Square) – Two months after Congress passed the country’s first federal tax-credit scholarship program, it remains to be seen if Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson will opt the …
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Carleen Johnson | The Center Square
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9/4/25
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(The Center Square) - A Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council report found that the state’s commercial real estate excise tax revenue has fallen to pre-2020 levels before the …
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TJ Martinell | The Center Square
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9/4/25
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Residents of Goose Prairie and Bumping Lake Road are now on a Level 2 "be ready" evacuation notice because of the nearby Wildcat Fire.
Yakima Valley Emergency Management updated the evacuation …
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By Alexander Banks / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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9/4/25
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A woman died while hiking Wednesday in a group on the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park.
She tripped and sustained fatal injuries from a fall, Glacier said in a news release. She has been …
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By Daily Montanan staff
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9/4/25
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On Monday, Grays Harbor Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to a theft in progress off U.S. Highway 101, south of Cosmopolis.
A subject was observed trespassing and stealing wood on …
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By The Daily World
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9/4/25
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Former football team volunteer arrested on suspicion of sex crimes against a child in Cowlitz County
A former volunteer with the Kalama High School football team has been arrested on suspicion of committing multiple sex crimes involving a child; the school district says no students were in harm's …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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9/4/25
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Portland Mayor Keith Wilson asked residents Wednesday to donate their time and money to his newly launched homeless shelters, suggesting stark consequences for the city should it fail to tame the …
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, Lillian Mongeau Hughes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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9/4/25
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Washington loggers, school leaders and conservation activists on Wednesday decried the state lands commissioner’s proposal to set aside 77,000 acres of older forests while opening 29,000 acres …
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By:Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/4/25
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Pro-Palestinian protesters forced Portland Mayor Keith Wilson to abandon a scheduled Q&A in Southeast Portland on Wednesday, video footage shows.
The weekly Bike Happy Hour event is billed …
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Fedor Zarkhin / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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9/4/25
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The former head of Washington’s beleaguered juvenile detention system alleges she was fired in retaliation for repeatedly warning of the dangers of overcrowding in the state’s youth …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/4/25
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The Washington Supreme Court will issue the final say on a voter initiative passed last November that took aim at Washington’s natural gas and energy policies.
In an order Wednesday, Chief …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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9/4/25
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