In what has become a grueling economic ritual, companies, farmers and other commercial players in Washington are again scrambling to assess the costs of another round of tariffs by President Donald …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/3/25
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Defying Olympia, the Spokane Valley City Council passed a resolution Tuesday explicitly opposing what many call Washington’s “sanctuary state” law, despite residents' pleas to …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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4/3/25
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A bill that gained bipartisan support in the Washington state Senate to strengthen online safety for children has failed to move forward in the House.
Senate Bill 5708 came at the request …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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4/2/25
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A Woodland woman who has two children with a teenager was sentenced to over a year for felony child rape.
Magali Victoria Ramirez, 22, of Woodland, pleaded guilty to a third-degree rape of a …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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4/2/25
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Lawmakers in the Washington House and Senate will have plenty of negotiating to do as they try to reconcile competing transportation budget proposals, which both depend on gas tax hikes.
The …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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4/2/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, along with Reps. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, and Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, this week introduced the bipartisan Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act …
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By The Chronicle staff
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4/2/25
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The Washington state House of Representatives on Monday, March 31, announced $7.63 billion in spending as part of its bipartisan 2025-27 capital budget proposal.
The spending would go toward …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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4/2/25
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On the morning of Feb. 22, 2000, Sam Williams, of Morton, was working as a flagger in a construction work zone on U.S. Highway 12 just west of Mossyrock when he was hit by a speeding and distracted …
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By The Chronicle staff
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4/2/25
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Dumpster diving has grown in popularity in recent years, becoming a more mainstream activity. What was once considered taboo is now a popular topic on social media, documented with tips and tricks …
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Karlee Van De Venter and Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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4/2/25
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On Saturday at about 10 p.m., an Aberdeen officer observed a vehicle fail to stop for a red light at South I Street and East Heron Street in Aberdeen.
The officer activated his emergency lights, …
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4/2/25
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It's been five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, turning our lives upside down. It's not exactly an anniversary anyone wants to celebrate.
But there is some …
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Gene Balk / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/2/25
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The sun was shining on Fox Island on Tuesday afternoon as a small group gathered by the greenish shoreline of the sand spit, looking for creatures exposed by the low tide.
From now until late …
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Becca Most / The News Tribune / (TNS)
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4/2/25
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A coalition of Washington mayors is urging lawmakers to refrain from heaping more taxes onto the state’s businesses.
Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus said at a March 28 press conference that …
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Simone Carter / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/2/25
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Richard Sherman, a former Seattle Seahawks cornerback turned sports announcer, said his Seattle-area home was robbed by armed individuals on Saturday night.
Sherman took to X Monday morning, …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/2/25
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In the aftermath of a mass shooting that left two people dead and four injured in Pierce County on Saturday, prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old boy with murder.
Prosecutors charged the …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/2/25
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Deputies are looking for Andrea Simmons, 44, after she was last seen leaving home near Spanaway, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office posted on X Monday morning.
Simmons, a woman with black …
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Julia Park / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/2/25
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A man followed a 16-year-old girl off a public bus and tried to kidnap her, but she fought back, Washington police said.
Authorities responded after 4 p.m. on Friday, March 28, to the Lake Hills …
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Helena Wegner / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/2/25
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Retired Washington Supreme Court Justice Susan Owens, an associate on the state's high court for 24 years where she was a model and champion of rural justice, died Friday while visiting family in …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/2/25
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For the past two years, the Bellevue School District has allocated more of its food budget to buy from farmers across Washington to offer students meals with locally produced raspberries, blueberries …
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Claire Bryan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/2/25
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Hearing the words "cycle highway" might conjure visions of Europeans pedaling safely along red pavement, or perhaps throngs of two-wheeled commuters in 1980s Beijing, when China was known as the …
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Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/2/25
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