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Even in late May, when T-shirts take over and thermostats hit a balmy 70 degrees, patches of snow cling to the top of Mount Spokane.
Snow persists on many Pacific Northwest mountains well into …
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5/30/22
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A cougar attacked a 9-year-old girl attending a camp Saturday morning near Fruitland, in Stevens County.
The girl was injured and taken to a hospital, according to an email from Staci Lehman, …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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5/29/22
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The city of Portland is out $1.4 million after a person or group outside the city used a government email account to commit a fraudulent financial transaction, officials said Friday.
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Shane Dixon Kavanaugh / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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Ben Beers was deeply upset by Tuesday’s mass shooting in Texas that left 19 children and two of their teachers dead.
Beers, 27, is a gun owner as well as a stay-at-home dad with two young …
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Lizzy Acker / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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A 38-year-old man is accused of raping a Vancouver woman after escaping the day before from the prison camp at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, federal prosecutors said.
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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The writer’s scheme called for a perfect crime. Then it crumbled.
For all her inventions on the page, Nancy Crampton Brophy’s plot to murder her husband unravelled almost immediately, …
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Zane Sparling / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/28/22
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A Tacoma-area candidate for Washington state representative announced Friday her car was hit by gunfire in a road-rage incident in Tacoma.
Sharlett Mena, a Democrat, wrote on Twitter that she …
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Sabrina Jiles / The News Tribune
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5/28/22
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Gov. Jay Inslee's appointments to an obscure regulatory panel last year have cost the state $70,000 in a public records lawsuit settlement — and forced the governor to rescind his appointees …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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A class-action lawsuit from last year demanding COVID-19 vaccines be immediately provided to all people incarcerated in Washington state prisons was dismissed Friday, as the bulk of the lawsuit's …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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As the nation focused on the massacre at a Texas elementary school, the superintendent of schools in Washington state issued a sober warning that a mass shooting could happen here, despite efforts to …
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Monica Velez / The Seattle Times
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5/28/22
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The City of Olympia has turned to a new permitting system to limit the number of parked vehicles on Ensign Road.
Various motor homes, campers and trailers have been parked on the road, creating …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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5/28/22
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Keep your eyes on the cloud cover forecast for Monday night into Tuesday morning, when Earth will pass through the remnants of a comet and we could possibly see a once-in-a-lifetime meteor …
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Christine Clarridge / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Pierce County jurors awarded about $2 million Friday to a former Western State Hospital nurse and three coworkers who were assaulted by a patient at the Lakewood facility.
Bernia Garner, Karen …
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Alexis Krell / The News Tribune
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5/27/22
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Washington motorists have been on the front lines of an epic surge in U.S. gas prices in the run-up to the summer driving season.
During the past month, Washington has ranked 15th in the U.S. for …
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Four bighorn sheep spotted in the center of the Hanford site on Tuesday were killed by the Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The 580-square-mile nuclear reservation just north of …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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5/27/22
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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has launched a poaching investigation after two Stevens County deputies stumbled upon four dead wolves in northeast Washington while on snowmobile …
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Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review
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5/27/22
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MOSES LAKE — Avian influenza has arrived in Grant County, according to the Grant County Health District.
According to Monica Mecham, a spokesperson for the Grant County Health District, …
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Charles H. Featherstone / Columbia Basin Herald
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5/27/22
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Dan Newhouse announced Thursday that he is introducing a bill that would prevent individuals or organizations associated with the government of the People's Republic of …
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By The Columbia Basin Herald
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5/27/22
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Here's one more sign of Washington's difficult housing market: Monthly mortgage payments are on the rise.
The median monthly payment for a new mortgage in Washington hit nearly $2,800 last …
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Heidi Groover / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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Washington Parents Struggling With Baby-Formula Shortage as Murray, Schrier Promise Follow-up Action
Ines Santos recently drove from her home in Bonney Lake to Everett to find two cans of baby formula for her son, desperate to keep him fed amid a nationwide formula shortage, she said. That's a …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times
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5/27/22
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