On ballots that go out this week, Washington voters will be asked to express how they feel about two transportation-related taxes or premiums enacted by the Legislature this year. But that's all …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times
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10/17/22
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The Nakia Creek Fire in east Clark County exploded in size on Sunday, prompting a significant expansion of Level 3 mandatory evacuation zones affecting 2,903 residences in the rural outskirts of …
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Mark Bowder / The Columbian
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10/17/22
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Western Washington air quality remained unhealthy for sensitive groups on Sunday because of area wildfires, including a blaze in southeast Pierce County that had scorched about 40 acres of forest …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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10/16/22
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The Washington State Patrol is asking for the public's help to locate a missing and possibly endangered Lacey woman.
The State Patrol announced the alert about 5 p.m. Sunday after Lacey Police …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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10/16/22
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Editor’s note: Details for this story were gleaned from documents, court records and meetings open to the public. The Oregonian/OregonLive is using only the woman’s initials, TB, because …
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Jayati Ramakrishnan / oregonlive.com / (TNS)
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10/16/22
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If defying expectations is what defined the Mariners' season, they saw it to the very end. Because one would expect a team that just got swept in the American League Division Series to be mourning …
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Matt Calkins / The Seattle Times
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10/16/22
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Seattle's first taste of postseason baseball in 21 years was electric, exhilarating, excruciating, surreal, crushing and long.
A city that had waited two decades for this game got the equivalent …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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10/16/22
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The evacuation levels for the Goat Rocks Fire have changed.
All areas north of Butter Creek are at level two (be set) evacuation, according to Lewis County Emergency …
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By The Chronicle staff
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10/16/22
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The Bellingham man suspected of vehicular homicide and DUI involving a pedestrian on Interstate 5 earlier this month, allegedly admitted to smoking marijuana and apparently ran out of gas before the …
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Rachel Showalter / The Bellingham Herald
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10/15/22
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A federal judge said he will impose a reduced sentence for former U.S. Army Ranger Luke Sommer, who is serving 44 years in prison for leading a terrifying takeover robbery at a Tacoma bank in 2006 …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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10/15/22
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OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson is seeking the maximum penalty of $24.6 million against Facebook's parent company, Meta, for violations of Washington's campaign finance transparency …
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Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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10/15/22
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A downtown restaurant worker was hit in the head with a gun and robbed, according to Olympia police.
And the suspect is still at large, Lt. Paul Lower said.
About 9:30 p.m. Oct. 11, the …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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10/15/22
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The man killed by Spokane County Sheriff's Office deputies Wednesday night near Loon Lake may have — hours before the shooting — fired a bullet past the head of a man who sexually …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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10/15/22
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Democratic U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and Republican challenger Tiffany Smiley will face off in a second forum this month, potentially ending weeks of negotiations over debates between the two …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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10/15/22
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The Evergreen State College's Board of Trustees had plenty to celebrate Friday when board members learned that new fall undergraduate enrollment rose 17 percent over last fall, finally reversing …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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10/15/22
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One of the nation’s strictest gun control measures will go before Oregon voters next month because of volunteer signature gatherers as young as 11 and as old as 94.
Measure 114 would …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/15/22
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President Joe Biden touted Democrats as American families’ champion against Big Pharma on Saturday at the East Portland Community Center.
Biden spoke about how the Inflation Reduction Act …
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Rose Wong / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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10/15/22
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Third Congressional District candidates Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and Republican Joe Kent are taking part in a debate hosted by the League of Women Voters in Vancouver Saturday at 2 p.m. …
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10/15/22
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The Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Bitchin’ Britches Boutique — formally Sparkles N’ Spurs Boutique — at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. …
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By The Chronicle staff
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10/15/22
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Due to unseasonably warm weather, dry conditions and increased wind speeds, a Red Flag Warning went into effect at 11 a.m. Saturday and will last through 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the U.S. Forest …
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By The Chronicle staff
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10/15/22
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