OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed an executive order Wednesday that requires state agencies to create and adopt a plain language policy, according to a Wednesday announcement from Inslee's …
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Staff Report / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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11/17/23
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A 3.1 magnitude earthquake shook Snohomish County late Thursday afternoon.
The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network recorded the quake southeast of Stanwood, near the unincorporated community of …
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Taylor Blatchford / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/17/23
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A child was arrested after police found three improvised explosive devices he claimed to have made to bomb a local school, according to the Cheney Police Department.
Police received a report at …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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11/17/23
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If you're enrolled at Washington, or have a degree from the school, or have a relative on the team — then go ahead and root for the Huskies on Saturday. If you have a wager riding on the Dawgs, …
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Matt Calkins / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/17/23
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A Renton police training sergeant testified Thursday that three Tacoma police officers on trial for the death of Manuel Ellis did not use an inappropriate level of force in their encounter with …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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11/17/23
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A Bremerton man was charged Thursday with first-degree organized retail theft, marking the first prosecution by a new Attorney General's Office unit created to crack down on organized retail crime.
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Taylor Blatchford / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/17/23
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Much of Washington is accumulating snowpack faster than normal so far this fall, a small victory for a state plagued by drought all summer.
A very small victory.
The trend isn't expected to …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/17/23
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A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office on salmon and water quality in Puget Sound says the Washington State Department of Ecology has routinely missed deadlines to develop an …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/17/23
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D.B. Cooper has been dead for more than 50 years.
Larry Carr is sure of it, and he should know, seeing as he once headed up the FBI’s investigation into the unknown criminal’s famous …
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Douglas Perry / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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11/16/23
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Washington's latest auction of carbon-emission allowances raised an estimated $260 million.
The state Department of Ecology announced Wednesday the results of its second special auction held …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/16/23
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A North Thurston Public Schools bus driver accused of hitting a child on his bus last month has been charged with fourth-degree assault, a gross misdemeanor, in Thurston County District Court, court …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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11/16/23
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Seventeen people and their bus driver were able to escape a fire on their Yakima-based airport shuttle bus Tuesday.
The Bellair Charters/Airporter bus fire five miles west of the summit closed …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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11/16/23
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There are two species of killer whale found in the Salish Sea — they are Bigg's killer whales, the marine mammal-eaters, and southern resident killer whales, that eat salmon. The two subspecies …
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Karlee Van De Venter / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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11/16/23
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Thousands of people have weighed in on the federal government's latest proposal to bring grizzly bears back to the North Cascades.
The two draft documents that lay out a plan to establish an …
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Michael Wright / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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11/16/23
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WENATCHEE — A state appellate court reaffirmed an international custody case that allows the state to make rulings if, for one of the parents, returning to the country of origin could result in …
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Oscar Rodriguez / The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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11/16/23
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Multiple law enforcement agencies across Pierce County assisted in the search and arrest of a suspect who fled the scene of a rollover collision on Wednesday.
Washington State Patrol troopers …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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11/16/23
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A man whose $30,000 bail amount was criticized by the Pierce County Sheriff's Department earlier this year has been arrested again after cutting off his ankle monitor and allegedly committing more …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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11/16/23
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TACOMA — Eyewitness testimony in the historic trial of three Tacoma police officers accused of killing Manuel Ellis has presented jurors with a crucial choice: believe their version that the …
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Patrick Malone / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/15/23
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To be sure, this doesn’t mean it wasn’t one of the Seahawks’ greatest trades. And to be even surer, it doesn’t mean the subject of this piece didn’t make a mistake by …
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Matt Calkins / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/15/23
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SEATTLE — Ballots dated before the Nov. 7 general election return deadline sat uncounted in one Seattle mail drop of box voters complained to Washington's King County. Now, a week after …
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Sarah Grace Taylor / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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11/15/23
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