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President Joe Biden's administration wants to accelerate efforts to get unsheltered people in Seattle into permanent housing as part of a federal initiative to reduce homelessness by 25% in two …
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By Anna Patrick / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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5/19/23
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A commission studying sites for Washington's next potential major airport still could recommend which location it prefers despite passage of a bill this week handing off examination of the state's …
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Shea Johnson / The News Tribune (TNS)
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5/19/23
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An Arlington man incarcerated at the Snohomish County Jail faces new charges after seven people in the jail were treated Wednesday after showing signs of an overdose.
The Snohomish County …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/19/23
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A 33-year-old man who was killed Wednesday died two blocks north of where his brother was killed in a shooting six years ago.
Yakima police say this week's death of Ramiro Mosqueda Camacho III …
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Donald W. Meyers / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/19/23
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Ostrom Mushroom Farms will pay $3.4 million to workers to settle a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination and other violations, the state attorney general said.
The attorney general's office …
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Jasper Kenzo Sundeen / Yakima Herald-Republic (TNS)
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5/19/23
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OLYMPIA — The Washington State Department of Transportation announced on Thursday that it is shutting the statewide automated 511 traffic information phone number, citing declining call …
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By The Columbia Basin Herald
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5/19/23
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A 33-year-old woman likely killed her 2-year-old son before killing herself Wednesday night in Wallace, according to the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff's office responded around …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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5/19/23
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The University of Puget Sound will remove the name of a former professor and eugenicist from the college's museum of natural history.
On May 12, the university's board of trustees unanimously …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/19/23
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SWINOMISH RESERVATION — The red-and-brown building looking out onto the Swinomish Channel is unlike a typical dental clinic.
Comforting smells from the kitchen at the downstairs senior …
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Elise Takahama The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/19/23
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The Cannon Beach Rural Fire Protection District on Tuesday clarified that the Beaverton teen who died Friday off the coast of Cannon Beach had been wading in knee-deep tides not swimming when a rip …
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Beth Slovic / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Rural residents in the three locations in Pierce and Thurston counties identified as possible sites for a new airport larger than Sea-Tac Airport can rest easy: No airport is coming their way.
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Dominic Gates / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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A 3-year-old boy died Thursday, more than three weeks after he was shot in the head and taken to a Tukwila fire station by a family member.
The child, Finesse Ezell, was shot in a residence in …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz and her supporters gathered for a news conference Monday on the Seattle waterfront to tout her political record as the wide-open 2024 Washington gubernatorial …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Olympia-based Washington State Employees Credit Union has completed its merger with State Highway Credit Union.
With this week's merger, which was announced earlier this year, WSECU increases …
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Thomas Clouse / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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5/17/23
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A man was arrested after stealing a van with two children aboard from Hoquiam on Monday morning.
Anthony Dennis Hurley, 34, of Aberdeen, was booked into the county jail on charges of …
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Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World (TNS)
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5/17/23
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WINTHROP, Wash. — On a subfreezing morning in March, Carmen Vanbianchi is crouched in the snow, cramming chunks of roadkill deer into a pouch she calls her meat purse.
She wrenches the …
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Sandi Doughton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/17/23
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Gov. Jay Inslee vetoed a bill Monday that would have required the state to ask drivers to volunteer their odometer readings, a precursor to a long-discussed and still theoretical tax on miles …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/16/23
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill into law Tuesday afternoon that will raise the penalty for drug possession to a gross misdemeanor and criminalize public drug use.
Earlier in the …
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Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/16/23
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A 30-year-old man shot and killed two people early Monday in a Lakewood apartment the day after his uncle died after overdosing in the same unit, according to charging documents.
Ontario Lavell …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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5/16/23
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A husband and wife got the scare of their lives when a man approached them and threatened to take their car and the woman for the night, according to Olympia police.
About 11 p.m. Friday, May …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/16/23
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