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A person was in critical condition Tuesday after they reportedly jumped off the dock at Seattle's Mount Baker Beach and didn't resurface, according to the Seattle Fire Department.
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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Light rail trains carried a record 280,000 passengers Friday, as people surged into Seattle for the U.S.-Australia World Cup soccer match, a sold-out Mariners game and summer-sauntering downtown.
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Mike Lindblom / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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King County saw a 9% increase in homelessness in the past two years, according to the latest Point-In-Time count data released Tuesday. The total number of people now estimated to be homeless in the …
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Stephannie Stokes / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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Cloud computing giant Oracle has laid off hundreds of Seattle workers since last year, part of sweeping cuts to the company's workforce. Oracle says artificial intelligence is to blame.
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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A 15-year-old boy was shot and seriously injured Tuesday night on Aurora Avenue, Seattle police say. But reports of the shooting remain dubious.
Police say they think the boy was driving a …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein may have contemplated blackmailing Bill Gates over extramarital affairs, the billionaire and Microsoft co-founder revealed in a recently released transcript …
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Alexis Weisend / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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DeVonte Ford had an epiphany while spending vacation time with his wife in Hawaii in December 2024.
He missed playing baseball back home in Thurston County.
Ford, a 2015 Timberline High …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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6/24/26
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That conundrum that keeps happening with the rich is happening again.
They are said to be leaving this state. Yet collections for a tax on wealth have smashed records — again.
For all the …
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Commentary by Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met the leaders of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait on Wednesday, as he looks to reassure Persian Gulf allies of the strength of an interim peace agreement with …
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Fiona MacDonald and Tooba Khan / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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6/24/26
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Idaho political action committees, or PACs, spent more than $4.2 million on May primary races this year. In a deep red state like Idaho, the Republican primaries tend to be the most competitive …
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Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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6/24/26
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced new criminal charges Tuesday against four people the state alleges stole taxpayer money and victimized vulnerable Oregonians by filing fraudulent …
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Julia Shumway / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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6/24/26
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Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed an amicus brief Tuesday in three lawsuits opposing a decision by the Trump administration to allow oil and gas development in Alaska’s Arctic …
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By Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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Some of Oregon’s local law enforcement leaders say that federal immigration authorities have failed to adhere to a longstanding practice of notifying them of their activity in their …
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Shaanth Nanguneri / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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6/24/26
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A 42-year-old man from Nigeria was sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to five years in prison for a $3.5 million romance scam that targeted eight victims, many of whom were divorced or …
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By Ann Duan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal investigators have embarked on the monthslong probe into the fatal disaster at Nippon Dynawave Packaging, interviewing workers and reviewing company records as they seek …
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By Anumita Kaur, Lulu Ramadan and Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/24/26
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The Republican-led U.S. Senate served up a rare public check on President Donald Trump’s agenda Tuesday when it voted to approve a House-passed War Powers Resolution to end hostilities in Iran.
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Ashley Murray / States Newsroom
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6/24/26
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The state of California and the Trump administration are on course for a major legal clash that could determine whether the state will continue to have unique authority to shape the American …
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By Alex Brown / Stateline.org
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6/24/26
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Washington state’s gas tax, already among the highest in the nation, is going up next week.
The state’s per-gallon fuel tax of 55.4 cents will climb 1.1 cents on July 1. The 2% bump is the …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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6/24/26
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State workers in Washington are about to get a raise, while secretive union negotiations that could include another raise get underway.
A two percent pay hike negotiated as part of a 2025 …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/23/26
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A Chehalis man is accused of violating a no-contact order by calling the protected individual 52 times while incarcerated at the Lewis County Jail.
Eric M. Messal, 34, was booked into jail …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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6/23/26
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