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A pair of bills being introduced in Olympia this legislative session are aimed at limiting the steep rent hikes that tenants have been seeing recently in communities across Washington state.
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Robert Mittendorf / The Bellingham Herald
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1/18/23
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In the weeks before four students were found dead inside a residence near the University of Idaho, suspect Bryan Kohberger messaged one of the victims on Instagram — and then kept reaching out …
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Jessica Schladebeck / Idaho Statesman (TNS)
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1/18/23
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OLYMPIA — Washington students may soon have another option in high school — a state-run apprenticeship program in a number of different fields.
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By Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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1/18/23
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Tacoma Police arrested a 17-year-old boy Monday in Thursday's fatal shooting of another teenager on Portland Avenue. The death was Tacoma's first homicide of the year and the first of three …
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By Craig Sailor / The News Tribune
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1/18/23
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An Olympia guns-for-gift-cards exchange is set for 9 a.m. to noon Tuesday, Jan. 31, as part of an effort by police and the city council to promote gun safety and reduce gun violence in the community.
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By Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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1/17/23
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The beaching of a dead sperm whale on Saturday at Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria marks a rare occurrence on the Oregon Coast at present. But decades ago, a much larger pod of cetaceans came …
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Zane Sparling / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/17/23
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State Sen. Lynda Wilson, R-Vancouver, released a statement last week announcing Democratic senators were blocking Senate Bill 5063 by refusing to give it a hearing in the Senate State Government and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/16/23
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Cosmetology students will be able to register for their final exam before they have completed their course work if a bill under consideration by the state Legislature is approved.
House Bill 1017, …
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By Alexandria Osborne / Washington State Journal
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1/16/23
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Four dogs sat in a House hearing room and two more watched the room over Zoom as a legislative committee last week discussed rules dog handlers must follow in courthouses for dogs to assist people …
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By Alexandria Osborne / Washington State Journal
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1/16/23
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WASILLA, Alaska — It's a frigid late November day in this city, but inside Sheila Pontier's garage at Alaska's only potbelly pig rescue, 13 pigs slumber, warm and dry.
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By Annie Berman / Anchorage Daily News
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1/16/23
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In her final hours on the job, Gov. Kate Brown released a list of the latest men and women to receive clemency on her watch, including 10 people who had been sentenced to spend the rest of their …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com
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1/15/23
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Visitors to Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria discovered a dead, beached sperm whale Saturday.
The whale beached just south of the Peter Iredale shipwreck, said Michael Milstein, a …
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Beth Slovic / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/15/23
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A man who set a fire at the Vancouver mayor's home Sept. 12 and burglarized her house the night before was sentenced Friday to nearly 3 1/2 years in prison.
Aidan Michael Murray, 28, no …
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Jessica Prokop / The Columbian
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1/15/23
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A 27-year-old Spokane man has been charged in the death of his 14-month-old daughter after police allege a dresser fell on the girl while she and the man's 2-year-old son were locked in the …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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1/15/23
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A former Renton criminal defense attorney nursed a yearslong grudge against seven lawyers and judges he blamed for ruining his reputation and legal career, then ambushed one of the attorneys, …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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1/15/23
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Solitary confinement inside one of Washington's prisons created "insidious" "psychological pressures" for Kevin Light-Roth, he said from a video screen in the Washington Corrections Center in …
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Michelle Baruchman / The Seattle Times
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1/15/23
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SAN JUAN CHANNEL — The earthy, fishy smell wafted aboard Joseph Gaydos' research vessel first. Then came the guttural growls.
Dozens of massive tan Steller's sea lions were resting on the …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times
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1/15/23
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Moscow police Chief James Fry is considered a quiet, modest man. Typically, he only has a microphone in his face at City Council meetings.
But the slaying of four University of Idaho students on …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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1/15/23
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Prosecutors will not file criminal charges against the Clark County sheriff's deputy who mistakenly shot and killed off-duty Vancouver police Officer Donald Sahota.
The Clark County Prosecuting …
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By Jessica Prokop / The Columbian
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1/13/23
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It could be more than five months before the public learns any new details surrounding the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.
Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old accused of …
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By Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review
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1/13/23
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