The federal government announced on Thursday it wants to release up to seven grizzly bears each year into Washington's North Cascades. The reintroduction effort would stop when the base population …
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By Michael Wright / The Spokesman-Review
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3/22/24
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Investigators have determined that a fatal Yelm area collision that happened earlier this month was not a homicide as initially suspected, the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says.
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By Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/22/24
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Investigators suspect arson may have caused a house fire in the Tanglewilde area near Lacey early Thursday morning.
Lacey Fire District 3 responded after 2 a.m. to the house fire on the 400 …
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By Martín Bilbao /The Olympian TNS
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3/22/24
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A family of six, including two young children, spent Tuesday night in the Mount Hood National Forest after sending out a call for help, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said. They were …
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Fedor Zarkhin / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/21/24
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The man who headed Environmental Protection Agency regulation of the Hanford nuclear site for more than eight years died Tuesday.
Dennis Faulk, the retired Hanford project manager for EPA in …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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3/21/24
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A Pierce County judge denied a prosecutor's request Wednesday to increase the bail of a registered nurse practitioner who is accused of forcing abortion pills inside his pregnant girlfriend and …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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3/21/24
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Where you live has a significant impact on how long you live. In Washington, life expectancy varies by up to 11 years depending on your county of residence, according to a new report.
San Juan …
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Gene Balk / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/21/24
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The governments of Washington state, California and the Canadian province of Quebec on Wednesday issued a joint statement on the potential to form a shared carbon market.
“The California …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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3/21/24
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Passing the bar exam will no longer be a requirement for becoming a lawyer in Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders Friday.
Washington becomes only the second state to …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/21/24
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Public schools in Washington state will be required to update curriculum to include LGBTQ histories and perspectives under a new law signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday.
Senate Bill 5462 …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/21/24
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Gov. Jay Inslee issued an emergency proclamation on Friday related to January’s extreme winter weather.
Weather events including straight-line winds, ice, extreme cold temperatures and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/20/24
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A 64-year-old man has died after driving into a river near a Washington state beach, according to State Patrol.
About 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dennis A. Faulk of Grandview was headed south on Copalis …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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3/20/24
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Olympia police are seeking more information about a group that vandalized an office building on the west side Friday night.
About 11:20 p.m., a group of about a dozen people, all of whom were …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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3/20/24
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A Sunnyside man accused of using a Honda Accord to steal calves from a Mabton ranch is scheduled to be arraigned March 20.
Leonardo Jose Tapia, 23, is charged in Yakima County Superior Court …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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3/20/24
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A Coeur d'Alene jury convicted a former Idaho State Police trooper Tuesday of murdering his wife and staging it to look like a suicide.
As the second-degree murder verdict against Daniel Howard, …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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3/20/24
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WENATCHEE — Sweet cherry growers in Washington state are eligible for up to $500,000 in federal Emergency Farm Loans following a formal disaster declaration from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture …
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Gabriel Garcia / The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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3/20/24
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"City Hall Closed Today" reads the notice hanging from Cosmopolis' city hall front door on Monday morning, following a mass resignation from leadership positions in the embattled city, alongside an …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World (TNS)
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3/20/24
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The Marine Corps echoes through the room of the Elks Club on a Friday afternoon like light reflecting off a fractured glass. The flag behind the podium. Hoodies, T-shirts, bearing the Eagle, Globe …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World (TNS)
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3/20/24
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At the end of the National Collegiate Wrestling Association National Championships, the smallest school stood atop the podium above all else.
Led by national-championship titles from Renaeh …
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Ryan Sparks / The Daily World (TNS)
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3/20/24
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Washington retailers are feeling a bit more optimistic about dealing with theft now that lawmakers have passed changes in state and federal law.
This session, the Washington State Legislature …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/20/24
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