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The Washington Legislature concluded its 2026 session Thursday evening after passing a batch of budgets and navigating late-breaking drama over the elimination of a data center tax break that …
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By Jerry Cornfield, Jake Goldstein-Street and Aspen Ford / Washington State Standard
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3/13/26
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OLYMPIA — The Capital Cougars only needed one game of the 2026 season to set a record.
For the first time under fourth-year head coach Jeremy Richtmyre, the Cougars scored seven goals in a game, …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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3/13/26
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Tied at three after the opening inning, the Black Hills High School softball team suffered multiple mishaps in the field and the 10 errors piled up to a 22-10 setback to Steilacoom on Thursday …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/12/26
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One of the three suspects arrested in connection with last week's multi-county police chase, which ended in a flipped vehicle in Centralia, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Cowlitz County Superior …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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3/12/26
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In March 2025, the Capitol Correspondents Association officially stopped its decades-long role of advising the Washington State Legislature on media credentialing. However, the CCA, a group of …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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3/12/26
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The 2026 legislative session in Olympia is wrapping up Thursday, and one of the final pieces of legislation to cross the finish line was the Senate Bill 6346 .
Three Democrats joined all …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/12/26
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In the final hours of the legislative session, state lawmakers passed budgets on Thursday to fill a multi-billion-dollar hole with new taxes, reserves, one-time transfers and some cuts.
Budget …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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3/12/26
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Thurston County sheriff’s deputies and Chehalis Tribal Police captured a man Thursday morning who reportedly fled a medical appointment after being transported from the nearby Maple Lane behavioral …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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3/12/26
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The funeral for Pastor Larry W. Bergman is to be held on March 21, 2026 at 1 p.m. at St. John's Lutheran Church, Chehalis.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to South Dakota …
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3/12/26
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Donald Ray Keene, 88, passed away peacefully on Nov. 29, 2025, in Centralia. He was born March 28, 1937, in Centralia, Washington, to Ben and Susan Jones and was the adopted son of Fred and Helen …
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3/12/26
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Beverly Louise Austin Stacey, 95, passed away peacefully on Feb. 2, 2026. She was born on Sept. 6, 1930, on her family’s farm in Olympia, Washington. She attended McLane Grade School and graduated …
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3/12/26
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The two men arrested upon suspicion of shooting at each other in a Centralia residential area Tuesday have been formally charged in Lewis County Superior Court.
Phillip D. Forbes, 44, of …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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3/12/26
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President Donald Trump’s senior policy advisor on homelessness, Robert Marbut, will be in Portland next week to meet with local officials.
The Oregonian/OregonLive obtained a copy Thursday of …
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Lillian Mongeau Hughes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/12/26
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Measles testing is ramping up at UW Medicine as the Puget Sound area gets ready to welcome a flood of out-of-state visitors this summer, potentially coinciding with a nationwide outbreak fueled by a …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/12/26
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Microsoft is asking a federal court to block the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic’s AI technology as a national security risk, tying the two companies together in a legal battle with the Trump …
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/12/26
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Winds are subsiding in Seattle after a chaotic night, but tens of thousands are still without power.
The Seattle metropolitan area saw gusts of 45 mph Wednesday night while gusts in the Western …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/12/26
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One of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives was arrested in Mexico on suspicion of killing two women at Federal Way's Stars Bar & Grill and injuring a male patron in 2023, officials said …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/12/26
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A 50-year-old man was badly hurt Wednesday night when a tree fell on a camper near his family's home in Stillwater, north of Carnation, said Eastside Fire & Rescue.
A family member inside …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/12/26
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A 52-year-old man who stole a pickup truck was arrested after a high-speed chase ended with him crashing into a patrol car, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said.
According to a Facebook …
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Isabela Lund / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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3/12/26
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Iran’s new supreme leader said the Strait of Hormuz should remain closed and Tehran will look to open other fronts in the war if the U.S. and Israel persist with their attacks.
In his …
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Kateryna Kadabashy, Eltaf Najafizada and Patrick Sykes / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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3/12/26
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