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As Washington lawmakers ease barriers to build more housing across the state, fire officials warn of an “unintended circumstance” making their jobs more difficult in some communities.
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/18/25
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Nearly a decade after Robert “LaVoy” Finicum was shot and killed as state and federal police moved to arrest occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the FBI’s new …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/17/25
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A hedge between two homes in Vancouver caught fire Friday, and the fire spread to a vehicle and one of the houses before the Vancouver Fire Department put it out, according to a news release from the …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/17/25
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The U.S. Coast Guard, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Washington State Park employees pulled off a maritime rescue on Thursday after 12 kayakers found themselves in treacherous waters in the San …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/17/25
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T-Mobile will lay off 121 employees in Bellevue, Bothell and Snoqualmie, according to a state filing Friday.
These details of layoffs in Washington, starting in October, come days after the …
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Claire Bernard / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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A day after a new privacy fence was put up at Seattle's Denny Blaine Park, much of it was gone.
The city installed the fence Wednesday in response to the ongoing controversy over how to preserve …
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Mara Mellits and Sujena Soumyanath / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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Texas Republicans, at the request of President Donald Trump, are in the process of redrawing voting district lines to make it easier to elect more Republicans to Congress.
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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The road to the Hoh Rain Forest in the Olympic National Park reopened on Saturday after flooding.
The Upper Hoh Road near milepost 1.24 closed on Friday after a weather system brought 3 inches …
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Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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Two years ago, the Storm retired Sue Bird’s No. 10 jersey, which hangs in the Climate Pledge Arena rafters, and last year Seattle city officials renamed a Lower Queen Anne street in her honor.
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Percy Allen / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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A Washington state employee and her young son were released Friday after three weeks in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, according to her lawyer, Minda Thorward.
New Zealander Sarah …
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Sujena Soumyanath / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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For Hawaii resident Maryn Stevens, Washington state looked like a land of opportunity. When she discovered she could earn more in Washington than Hawaii as an early career mental health counselor, …
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Hannah Furfaro / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/17/25
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Old wooden nameplates of retired ferries adorn the walls of the Washington State Ferries' carpentry shop on Bainbridge Island, where James Eldringhoff was hard at work on a recent morning.
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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8/17/25
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Reliable Enterprises teamed up with a local 4-H group at the Southwest Washington Fair on Thursday to give a group of children with disabilities a chance to experience what it's like to show an …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob @chronline.com
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8/16/25
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The 39-year-old leader of a drug-trafficking ring that has been tied to Aryan prison gangs was sentenced to 14 years in prison in U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Friday.
Yehoshua Kilp was …
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Puneet Bsanti / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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8/16/25
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As months pass with no new leads, the same question remains in Wenatchee: Where is Travis Decker?
The 32-year-old from Wenatchee has been on the run since May 30, when, according to law …
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Bonny Matejowsky / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/16/25
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An investigation has been ordered into Washington's Fish and Wildlife Commission and now environmentalists want the Department of Fish and Wildlife's director gone.
Gov. Bob Ferguson directed …
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Michael Wright / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/16/25
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A fishy tale, plus coolers and packs with 50 fish, have three anglers in Eastern Washington in hot water, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Police.
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Tri-City Herald staff (TNS)
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8/16/25
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The Washington State Patrol is asking the public for help identifying a driver who’s accused of running over a pedestrian on southbound Interstate 5 in Olympia last month.
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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8/16/25
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The U.S. attorney's office announced that federal prosecutors will not be filing criminal charges against the three former Tacoma police officers involved in the March 2020 death of Manuel Ellis.
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/16/25
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A Vietnam War veteran’s widow and her family have uncovered a letter they say provides irrefutable evidence that she had a separate reserved plot next to her husband’s grave at the Camp …
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Julia Park / The News Tribune (TNS)
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8/16/25
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