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Heavy rainfall and gusts brought flooding and power outages to parts of northwest Washington, including communities still reeling from devastating floods two weeks ago.
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Lulu Ramadan / The Seattle Times
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11/29/21
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The nursing shortage is a pressing reality for hospitals across Washington.
A recent survey from the Washington State Hospital Association, which included responses from 80 hospitals that have 85% …
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Arielle Dreher / The Spokesman-Review
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11/29/21
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Support for Washington state's long-term care benefit program is divisive, but 51% of Washington residents support the program, according to an AARP poll published this fall.
A third of residents …
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Laurel Demkovich and Arielle Dreher / The Spokesman-Review
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11/29/21
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University of Washington researchers have developed a wearable device used to detect and reverse opioid overdoses, a potentially significant step in curbing a local and national opioid epidemic …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times
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11/29/21
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Tacoma Police arrested a 32-year-old man in connection with a hit-and-run that killed a teenager early Sunday morning in Southeast Tacoma.
An 18-year-old male was walking near the area of East …
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Brandon Block / The Olympian
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11/28/21
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This story contains descriptions of sexual assault.
Tara Velan lay on a heated table when she began to feel the hands of her massage therapist slide under the loosely draped sheet, to her growing …
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Maddie Kornfeld / The Seattle Times
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11/28/21
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The trial of a former Pasco police officer accused of strangling a woman in 1986 is set to start Monday.
Richard J. Aguirre, 57, was charged in September 2020 with the killing of 27-year-old Ruby …
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review
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11/28/21
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If Washingtonians needed another reminder that COVID isn't done with us yet, the latest round of employment data should do the trick.
Last week's jobs report showed that overall hiring was …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times
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11/28/21
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The Thurston County Commission has voted to support Olympia's efforts to create a permanent safe parking site for RVs, after a temporary proposal collapsed.
In a 2-1 vote on Tuesday, Nov. 23, the …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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11/28/21
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A man was shot and wounded in Kent on Saturday evening at a vigil held for another man killed in the same area a day earlier, Kent police said.
The Saturday shooting happened around 7 p.m. along …
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Lulu Ramadan / The Seattle Times
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11/28/21
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MOUNT VERNON — The Baumgardner family knows the risks of flooding well.
Their sprawling Baumgardner Dairy Farm sits just south of the Skagit River, which is so routinely swollen by rainwater …
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Daisy Zavala / The Seattle Times
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11/28/21
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LOS ANGELES — A thunderstorm in Colorado sent the two college students racing for cover down a mountain ridge. A black bear charged at one of them in Washington state. A wildfire’s flames …
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Faith E. Pinho and Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times
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11/28/21
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Lincoln City residents had an extra guest for Thanksgiving weekend: a sea lion who spent Friday evening wandering a residential part of town.
The sea lion came out of the Siletz River onto …
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Jamie Hale / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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11/28/21
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Vancouver's Alicia Nilo is facing a long road to recovery after being struck in the hip by a seemingly random bullet on Oct. 21 while running along the Padden Parkway Trail.
Her recovery will take …
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Jessica Prokop / The Columbian
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11/27/21
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An emergency alert advising Sumas and Everson residents to voluntarily evacuate Saturday night, Nov. 27, was sent out shortly before 6 p.m. as rain continued to fall in Whatcom County.
"Life …
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Julie Shirley / The Bellingham Herald
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11/27/21
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The search for the shooter who terrorized Tacoma Mall shoppers Friday night entered its second day Saturday as a victim recovered in a local hospital.
Tacoma police spokesman officer Gary Wurges …
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Craig Sailor / The News Tribune
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11/27/21
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A shooting near the food court Friday night left one person injured and locked down the Tacoma Mall, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department and Tacoma police.
An off-duty Tacoma …
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Craig Sailor and Stacia Glenn / The News Tribune (TNS)
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11/27/21
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A Bellingham man is facing a hate crime charge after allegedly yelling anti-Semitic slurs at a Jewish neighbor in early November.
Scott Michael Lavoie, 59, was charged Nov. 8 with the commission …
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Denver Pratt / The Bellingham Herald
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11/27/21
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One of the bylaw rules of the Portland Ghostbusters – and it’s amazing this needs to be said – is that members don’t actually trap ghosts.
“We don’t do …
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Samantha Swindler / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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11/27/21
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For $258,500, or the highest bid, you can own a two-story building filled with tall tales, many told in the Netflix documentary “Wild Wild Country,” about the Rajneeshees commune that …
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Janet Eastman / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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11/27/21
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