Ahead of the start of the new school year, the Washington State Department of Health has updated its requirements and recommendations for K-12 schools and child care settings as the COVID-19 pandemic …
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Jenn Smith / The Seattle Times
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8/12/22
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Harborview Medical Center will temporarily stop accepting less-acute patients and instead divert them to other health care systems in the area — reflecting a "very difficult decision" as …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times
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8/12/22
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A house fire claimed the life of one and injured another on Thursday in Mason County.
Central Mason Fire & EMS reported that they were dispatched to the scene at about 2:50 p.m. on Thursday …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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8/12/22
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Former Yakima City Council candidate Kenton Gartrell wanted the man accused of kidnapping his infant daughter and stealing his wife's sport-utility vehicle to get substance abuse treatment.
But …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
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8/11/22
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King County prosecutors have charged an Auburn man with first-degree murder, alleging he beat a man to death with a rifle.
Francisco Ochoa-Prado, 31, is accused of entering Daniel Parkinson's …
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Omar Shaikh Rashad / The Seattle Times
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8/11/22
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As the school year is just around the corner for Washington state, the Washington State Department of Health has released updated COVID-19 guidelines for schools and childcare facilities.
The new …
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Alyse Messmer-Smith / The Bellingham Herald
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8/11/22
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A hacker recently obtained unauthorized access to over 18,000 former MultiCare Health System patients' private information, according to a Wednesday press release.
Avamere Health Services, an …
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Allen Siegler / The News Tribune
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8/11/22
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While the unusual quiet of COVID's first months was hard on many people, it allowed birds in the Pacific Northwest to use a wider range of habitats, according to a newly published University of …
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Christine Clarridge / The Seattle Times
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8/11/22
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The families of four tourists killed in an Alaskan floatplane crash last year have sued Holland America Line, alleging the Seattle-based cruise company pressures outside excursion operators to take …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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8/10/22
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A man attempted to siphon gas from a daycare bus and damaged the vehicle in the process, Lacey police say.
According to police, the man was seen about 1:50 a.m. Aug. 2, attempting to siphon gas …
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Cayli Yanagida / The Olympian
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8/10/22
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Wayne A.J. Frisby, a rapper who goes by the stage name "Mac Wayne," recounted dealing drugs and selling heroin and methamphetamine to his mom in a 2019 independent documentary.
Federal …
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Allen Siegler / The News Tribune
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8/10/22
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A Portland man was sentenced Monday to eight years and three months in state prison after prosecutors said he killed a man he believed had “snitched” to police four years ago.
Daniel …
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Zane Sparling / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/10/22
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The Oregon State Police Fish & Wildlife Division is looking for the person or people who fatally shot a collared wolf in northeastern Oregon last week, and conservation groups have offered a …
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Austin De Dios / Oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/10/22
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Washington voters are set to elect someone other than a Republican as secretary of state for the first time since 1960.
Julie Anderson, running as a nonpartisan candidate, has edged out multiple …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times
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8/10/22
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In a packed auditorium at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Dr. Anthony Fauci led a conversation Tuesday afternoon about the county's deep divide around COVID-19, his involvement in early …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times
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8/10/22
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Former Seahawks star Marshawn Lynch has been arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of driving under the influence, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced Tuesday.
Police conducted a …
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Adam Jude / The Seattle Times
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8/9/22
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It will soon be illegal in Seattle to discriminate against someone for seeking or receiving an abortion, part of the city's efforts to preserve reproductive rights locally after federal protections …
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8/9/22
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Firefighters working at the Cow Canyon and Vantage Highway fires were keeping a wary eye on the weather Tuesday.
With a heat advisory continuing through 11 p.m. Tuesday and thunderstorms …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic
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8/9/22
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Detectives are asking for the public's help as they investigate who shot a bear hunter with a high caliber gun in the Washington Blue Mountains near Walla Walla.
Walla Walla County detectives …
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By The Tri-City Herald
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8/9/22
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A 12-year-old crashed a car into a pole and another car at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday on the South Hill, Spokane police spokeswoman Julie Humphreys said.
The juvenile was uninjured in the crash, …
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Quinn Welsch / The Spokesman-Review
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8/9/22
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