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The Washington Legislature is again considering empowering local governments to tax short-term housing rentals, much to the irritation of homeowners who rent out their properties on platforms like …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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1/21/26
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The hottest new animal yoga class in Portland doesn’t involve goats, kittens or puppies.
It’s all about snakes.
HISSS, a reptile shop that opened in August, is hosting regular snake …
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Samantha Swindler / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/20/26
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About 10 hours after two Portland police officers were shot and injured near Lloyd Center Monday night, the Police Bureau said the suspect remains at large.
The search of the area where the …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/20/26
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It only took about 13 seconds for Seahawks fans to rock the rafters of Lumen Field on Saturday night.
Over a decade since the “Beast Quake” that cemented Seattle’s reputation for loud …
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Nicole Pasia / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/20/26
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About three dozen people gathered at Rainier Beach’s public library Sunday afternoon to assemble “whistle kits,” a tool that activists nationwide have turned to as a means of alerting neighbors …
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Ryan Nguyen / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/20/26
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Prosecutors last week charged a volunteer fire chief in Pacific County in Southwest Washington with 37 counts of child sex crimes involving four young boys.
Police believe Ilwaco volunteer Fire …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/20/26
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An early morning multi-vehicle collision on northbound Interstate 5 Monday near the border of Pierce-King counties sent one person to the hospital.
A total of 21 vehicles were involved, …
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Debbie Cockrell / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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1/20/26
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A semi truck driver is accused of driving drunk when he collided with a Washington state snowplow, forcing it to crash along Interstate 90 on Saturday.
The 32-year-old plow driver for the …
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Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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1/20/26
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A double-decker Spokane Transit Authority bus with passengers apparently took the wrong street through downtown Sunday afternoon, causing it to crash into a railroad viaduct overpass.
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Elena Perry / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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1/20/26
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After 17 straight weeks of falling fuel prices in Washington, the trend came to a halt this week, with statewide averages ticking up by nearly a cent. Nationally, a similar seven‑week streak of …
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Nance Beston / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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1/20/26
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Reviews are in for Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson’s debut budget blueprint. They are mostly two thumbs down.
In the course of six hours of public hearings over three days last week, dozens of …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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1/19/26
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Washington state is once again facing a push to embrace nuclear energy, this time fueled by the state's aggressive climate goals, advances in technology and the embrace of the energy source by the …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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1/19/26
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The Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners approved preliminary plans for a four-lot subdivision off Cooper Hill Court, a private road near the intersection of Schaffran Road and Spirit Lake Memorial …
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By Minka Atkinson / The Daily News
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1/19/26
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The Washington state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will be transferring 25 surplus wildland fire engines at no cost to fire districts in wildfire-prone communities around Washington state …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/19/26
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Last week, the U.S. Senate passed three 2026 funding bills, which included provisions authored by U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania.
As a member of the House Appropriations …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/19/26
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced last week it will hold two online public meetings later this month to get feedback on a $1.5 billion project to run a 100-mile-long high-voltage power line …
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By Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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1/19/26
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Authorities say two Kelso men are dead after their car flipped Sunday into a slough along Industrial Way, near Northwest Alloys — the former Millennium Bulk terminal — in Longview.
John D. …
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By The Daily News
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1/19/26
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The City of Olympia reaffirmed its commitment to equity last week with three proclamations to a packed city council chambers recognizing several national days of observance.
The …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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1/19/26
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in both the Washington state Senate and House of Representatives have introduced bills to begin crowdfunding to support additional efforts to control an invasive sea …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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1/19/26
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An unexpected find at a Seattle Goodwill led to the arrest of a suspected bank robber over the weekend, according to police.
On Friday afternoon, a man entered the Columbia Bank on Broadway …
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Nicole Pasia / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/19/26
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