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The 32-year-old man who witnesses said stabbed his mother and three of her neighbors to death outside her Key Peninsula home before being fatally shot by a Pierce County sheriff's deputy Tuesday …
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Catalina Gaitán and Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/27/26
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OLYMPIA — With lawmakers facing mounting budget pressures and potential cuts to child care and K — 12 education, 13 House Democrats are urging the finance committee to strip a corporate tax break …
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Sophia Sostrin / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/27/26
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A slow winter season in Skamania County is worsening the impacts of a broader tourism downturn the county has suffered since pandemic-era outdoor recreation booms began to wane.
Both the number …
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By Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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2/27/26
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King County and Seattle have recently taken steps to hamper any possible federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in their jurisdictions, specifically to limit enforcement on local …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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2/27/26
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Democratic lawmakers in Washington state are moving closer to repealing a 2025 law that raised the state’s top estate tax rate to 35%, the highest in the nation.
Senate Bill 6347 , introduced …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/27/26
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Another conservation group has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s delay in determining critical habitat for wolverines, a federally listed threatened species. It says without a …
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By Darrell Ehrlick / The Daily Montanan
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2/27/26
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An Idaho House of Representatives committee voted Thursday to approve a bill mandating all local law enforcement agencies apply to enter agreements with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement …
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By Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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2/27/26
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A call with federal officials and state election officers ahead of the 2026 election was full of bluster and mostly free of facts, according to Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read.
Read, a …
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By Julia Shumway / States Newsroom
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2/27/26
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Zahid Chaudhry, a U.S. Army veteran, was held in the Northwest ICE Processing Center for four months last year.
He was released in December. While inside, he saw multiple fellow detainees …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/27/26
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In a move opposed by hundreds of community members, the Timberland Regional Library (TRL) Board of Trustees on Wednesday authorized library administration to lay off staff in response to a …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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2/26/26
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The Washington State Patrol is investigating a hit-and-run collision on Interstate 5 Wednesday that led to a Kelso woman being transported to Providence Centralia Hospital.
According to …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/26/26
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One of the first of an expected 656 signs stating that city property in Seattle cannot be used by federal authorities for civil immigration enforcement efforts has been posted at Jefferson Park in …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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2/26/26
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House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-West Seattle, admits he was intoxicated during a House Appropriations Committee meeting on Wednesday evening.
So much so that the committee chair at one …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/26/26
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Washington state House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon acknowledged he was intoxicated during a Wednesday night committee hearing on budget legislation.
The Seattle Democrat admitted to drinking …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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2/26/26
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Mat Rats Rebooted Wrestling put together an impressive showing over the weekend at the Washington State Wrestling Association Folkstyle State Championship, earning a fifth-place finish out of 144 …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/26/26
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Tenino’s Kylie Gonia was the area’s top honoree in the Girls 1A Evergreen League All-League teams, earning a first-team nod.
Rochester had two second-team honorees in Alexis Dupont and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/26/26
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Rochester’s Tyson Canales had an impressive freshman season for the Warriors, and he was rewarded with a spot on the 1A Evergreen League First-Team.
Canales joins a trio of Montesano Bulldogs …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/26/26
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The restoration of the Historic Centralia Fox Theatre has seen significant progress in recent years, but the project is once again hitting a wall, this time due to insufficient funding.
Members …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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2/26/26
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Dawn Patricia Hannum went to be with her Lord and Savior Jan. 27, 2026. Born to William Hannum and Patricia (Koski) Hannum Feb. 16, 1956, in Chehalis, Washington. Dawn graduated from Napavine High …
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2/26/26
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Last fall, Washington and other Western states issued their own vaccine recommendations in a sharp rejection of federal policy that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended.
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/26/26
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