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Deciding where to have a baby is often intensely personal for new parents: Do you want to go to a hospital or give birth at home? Are you comfortable with the doctor? Is it close enough to make it in …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/15/23
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OLYMPIA — Washington lawmakers were negotiating privately but hadn't reached a deal on new penalties for drug possession as of Saturday afternoon, several days before they must meet for a …
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Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/15/23
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After a two-year delay, premiums for Washington's fledgling long-term care insurance program will resume in July, likely setting off another round of debate over the payroll tax.
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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5/15/23
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Yakima physician Raul Garcia announced Friday that he will run for governor as a Republican.
Garcia, the medical director at Astria Toppenish Hospital, has spent years practicing medicine in the …
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Santiago Ochoa / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/13/23
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Detectives are investigating the suspicious death of a toddler who is believed to have been exposed to fentanyl at an Everett hotel, officials said.
The 1-year-old girl was taken Sunday to …
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Daisy Zavala Magaña / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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A King County jury returned guilty verdicts Wednesday in the murder trial of Patrick Nicholas, finding him guilty of fatally strangling a Federal Way teenager in 1991 while trying to rape her.
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Washington's education department hasn't adequately tracked how schools are spending hundreds of millions in federal aid earmarked for pandemic learning loss, according to an audit ordered by state …
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Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Attorney General Bob Ferguson has shifted more than $1.2 million in surplus campaign money to his 2024 gubernatorial bid — getting ahead of a ruling placing new limits on such transfers.
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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The current flu season in Washington state is at least 10 times deadlier than last year's season and the deadliest in five years, according to state data.
So far, the data show there have been …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/12/23
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A $1,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for violently killing dogs in the Lower Yakima Valley this spring.
Multiple deceased dogs have been found …
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Tammy Ayer / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/12/23
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An accused rapist is one of the first to have his bail amount cut this week because of Franklin County's acute shortage of public defense attorneys.
In a second case, a man suspected of driving …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Former Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich was in a Spokane courtroom Thursday, asking a federal judge to allow his case to continue against his former employer for firing him …
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Kip Hill / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/12/23
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An Aberdeen man was injured in an alleged drunk-driving related crash in Montesano on Tuesday afternoon and was transported for further medical care.
The crash occurred just after 5:30 p.m., …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World
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5/12/23
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee this week signed into a law a measure that will expand free school lunches to all students in kindergarten through fourth grade in districts where at least 30% of all …
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Charles H. Featherstone / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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5/12/23
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A 65-year-old Black man will get a new trial after the Washington Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors discriminated against him by striking the last Black person from his jury pool nearly 20 years …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Third-party investigators are trying to determine the cause of a blaze that destroyed the historic Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge at Olympic National Park on Sunday.
A law enforcement ranger reported …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/12/23
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Western Washington Fred Meyer and QFC stores unlawfully barred employees from wearing Black Lives Matter pins and face masks at work in 2020, a National Labor Relations Board judge ruled.
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By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times
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5/10/23
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Gov. Jay Inslee signed a slate of housing bills Monday, capping a legislative session many lawmakers took to calling the "year of housing."
Many of the bills are aimed at boosting the supply of …
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By Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times
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5/10/23
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Olympia police are looking for a suspect after a dog was found hacked to death Sunday afternoon in the 2300 block of State Avenue Northeast.
Police believe a large sword or machete was used to …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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5/10/23
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The Tumwater Police Department said officers received reports Monday morning of a juvenile heading toward Tumwater Middle School armed with a handgun. It turned out to be a toy, police said.
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/8/23
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