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A push to 1,700 acres of industrial land for Hillsboro is over for this year after its chief legislative sponsor dropped the effort.
“After careful consideration of the feedback received and …
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Mike Rogoway / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Rules for harvesting shellfish from Washington public beaches are poised to change.
The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing to increase the minimum harvest size for …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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About 12 hours before Aleksandr Shablykin allegedly killed his mother and three other people near Gig Harbor, police officers went to his sister's house in Orting, Pierce County, and talked about the …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A man trying to evade arrest drove the wrong way down Interstate 5 at least four different times before crashing into a Washington State Patrol officer around Lakewood in Pierce County early …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A 17-year-old Poulsbo girl died in a head-on collision involving a city bus outside Port Ludlow, Jefferson County, on Tuesday evening, according to Washington State Patrol.
The girl was driving …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A multi-county police chase on Interstate 5 ended in Centralia Tuesday morning when the suspect’s vehicle collided with another before flipping over the Jersey barrier and landing on its top in the …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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3/4/26
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President Donald Trump said the U.S. will ensure safe passage of oil from the Middle East to head off a potential energy crisis, as the Iran war continues to reverberate across the region and roil …
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Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Christine Burke and Dan Williams / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Northwest Hardwoods in Centralia has filed a worker adjustment and retraining notification with the Washington state Employment Security Department indicating it will lay off 70 workers effective …
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By The Chronicle staff
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3/4/26
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Incidents allegedly occurred between November and February in the men’s locker room, a windowless room with a lockable door.
Two Longview teens facing a range of allegations that they sexually …
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By Troy Brynelson / Oregon Public Broadcasting
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3/4/26
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The town of Newport has been scammed out of $330,000, officials announced last week in a news release.
Newport, the county seat of Pend Oreille County, lost the city funds after scammers emailed …
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Monica Carrillo-Casas / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A once-ambitious bill meant to reel in Washington’s exploding data center industry fell by the wayside during this short legislative session in Olympia.
In short, Big Tech won, said state Sen. …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Prosecutors charged 33 members of a pro-Palestinian protest group with first-degree criminal trespassing in connection with the May 2025 occupation of a University of Washington engineering building, …
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder charges after prosecutors say they plotted to ambush and kill an 18-year-old man in October outside a Seattle Chipotle as revenge for allegedly stealing …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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The Metropolitan King County Council voted Tuesday to ban any new detention centers in the county for at least the next year, becoming the latest local jurisdiction to attempt to block any new …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A prohibition on law enforcement covering their faces, motivated by masked federal immigration agents, is one step closer to becoming Washington law.
The state House passed the legislation …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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3/4/26
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Nine days remain in the 2026 legislative session in Olympia, and the proposed income tax has yet to reach the House floor and reports circulating late Tuesday suggest it may not reach the floor this …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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The Washington state House of Representatives has passed a Senate bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings in public and on duty. The bill also creates a civil …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a plan Tuesday requiring the police department to document evidence of potentially unlawful acts by Immigrations and Custom Enforcement agents during …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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An Oakville man with multiple DUI convictions was charged in Lewis County with felony DUI and other offenses including an ignition interlock violation.
Asa K. Hutchings, 32, made a preliminary …
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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3/3/26
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The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline topped $3 Tuesday for the first time this year, and is expected to keep going up.
The average price Tuesday was $3.11, up about 11 …
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By David Lightman / States Newsroom
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3/3/26
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