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A family is left grieving after a 20-year forklift operator was killed in a crash last weekend with a Washington State Patrol trooper.
Jhoser E. Vega Sanchez was described as cheerful and a …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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3/7/25
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The U.S. Small Business Administration will shutter its Seattle regional office due to the city's immigrant protections and plans to cut off benefits to noncitizen business owners, marking the latest …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/7/25
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A 39-year-old woman who police suspect was killed by her partner in a Lacey area apartment last month has been identified.
Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock identified the deceased woman as …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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3/7/25
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Wildfire season is months away in Washington state, but planning efforts have already begun.
It is not going smoothly.
Local and state agencies told The News Tribune that federal funding …
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Becca Most / The News Tribune (TNS)
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3/7/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a Democrat from Southwest Washington who has established a reputation for breaking with her party on certain partisan votes, has done so once again.
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Carlos Fuentes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/7/25
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Three U.S. Army soldiers are accused of sharing top secret national defense material and other sensitive military information with a Chinese national and other unidentified buyers in China, according …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/7/25
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The salvage crew hoping to recover the cream-colored Ford station wagon carrying an Oregon family who disappeared in 1958 postponed their operation Thursday.
The Hood River County …
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Beth Slovic / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/7/25
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The Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s largest transmission grid operator, will be able to rehire some workers originally fired under President Donald Trump’s federal cutbacks.
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/7/25
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A man died in a house fire in Kelso on Thursday, Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue reported.
Firefighters arrived in the 1000 block of S 6th Avenue in the small Washington town 48 miles from Portland …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/7/25
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Washington state troopers stopped a speeding car in Clark County last month – and ended up making arrests and a large drug seizure.
On February 27, troopers spotted a Dodge Hornet …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/7/25
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Cowlitz County residents are aiding the search for a missing toddler, roughly three hours south in Siletz, Oregon.
Officials say Dane Paulsen, 2, was last seen Saturday playing in the front yard …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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3/7/25
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While they agreed to drop the title, House Democrats passed a bill Wednesday that would make work programs almost entirely optional for incarcerated people in Washington state.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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3/7/25
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Washington’s attorney general asked a federal judge Thursday to hold the Trump administration in contempt for allegedly canceling a grant to Seattle Children’s Hospital to research …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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3/7/25
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The leader of the Washington state House of Representatives said the quiet part out loud this week: lawmakers should brace for a special session if Congress slashes funding for Medicaid, the health …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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3/7/25
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A bill in the Washington Legislature that would have limited the circumstances under which law enforcement officers can conduct traffic stops has failed to advance from the House Community Safety …
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By Melanie Henshaw / InvestigateWest
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3/7/25
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Washington state is seeing a sharp increase in unemployment claims by federal workers as the Trump administration moves to slash the government workforce.
Claims from federal employees in …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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3/6/25
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A Glenoma man is facing a felony malicious mischief charge in Lewis County Superior Court for allegedly tipping over a portable toilet owned by the Lewis County Public Utility District (PUD) in …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/6/25
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A “mid- to low-level drug dealer” and low-level sex offender arrested in Centralia last week and charged for alleged failure to register as a sex offender is now facing drug …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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3/6/25
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Lacey police arrested a 25-year-old man Monday on suspicion of assaulting a fast-food worker in a women's restroom.
The alleged assault occurred at the Carl's Jr. in the 3800 block of Pacific …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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3/6/25
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The Thurston County Sheriff's Office suspended a corrections deputy without pay for collecting 27 hours of pay for time they did not work last year.
An internal investigation found the deputy …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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3/6/25
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