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It seems like this past year has just been a blur.
I’ve barely gotten used to writing 2025, yet here we are.
The beginning of each new year is an opportunity to start over and look …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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12/29/25
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Lewis County residents looking for some delicious smoked barbecue catered for their next event can now do so thanks to Chehalis residents Jeremy and Lynn Hearn, who opened J&L BBQ last fall.
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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12/29/25
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A 44-year-old woman was killed in a head-on collision in Olympia on Saturday.
The woman’s name has not been released pending notification of her next of kin, the Thurston County Coroner’s …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/29/25
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White Pass Ski Area is open for business unhindered after recent heavy rain and a brief battle with E. coli contamination slowed its opening.
Lewis County announced in a Friday news release that …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/29/25
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Friends, family members and former colleagues attended a celebration of life for Joyce Barnes at the TransAlta Commons on the Centralia College campus on Saturday, Dec. 27.
Barnes died …
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12/29/25
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Gov. Bob Ferguson proposed spending nearly $13 million to enhance security at the Capitol campus following an October break-in.
The money, included in the governor's supplemental budget proposal …
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By Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review
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12/29/25
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Bail was set at $10,000 for an Onalaska woman accused of attacking her mother and sister while drunk on Christmas day.
Paulette K. Norman, 65, allegedly hit her mother repeatedly, unplugged her …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/29/25
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Washington State Patrol Trooper Tara-Marysa Guting was a relentless and infectious source of positivity and kindness, opening her heart to friends, strangers and animals, Guting's family and friends …
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By Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times
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12/29/25
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Editor’s note: This is the second installation of a profile of Centralia’s Rev. Alta Smith by Chronicle columnist Julie McDonald. To read the first installment, visit https://tinyurl.com/bde7ahju …
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12/29/25
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Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national prominence as the National Park Service’s oldest ranger and shared her experiences of racial segregation working on the World War II home front, has died. …
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By Lila Seidman / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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12/29/25
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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking information on the vandalization of pictographs this month at Missouri Headwaters State Park.
In a release, the agency said it appeared a person …
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By Jordan Hansen / The Daily Montanan
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12/29/25
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Idaho state officials voted Dec. 19 to pay to refurbish the replica Liberty Bell on display on the front steps of the Idaho State Capitol in Boise.
The America250 in Idaho Advisory Council voted …
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By Clark Corbin / Idaho Capital Sun
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12/29/25
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After at least four humpback whales were entangled this year in Oregon commercial Dungeness crab fishing gear, conservation groups are petitioning the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt …
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By Mia Maldonado / The Oregon Capital Chronicle
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12/29/25
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Federal immigration agents arrested about 1,100 people in Oregon this year, immigration experts estimate — a surge from the 113 arrests recorded in all of 2024.
In August, the Trump …
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By Mia Maldonado / The Oregon Capital Chronicle
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12/29/25
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UNION GAP, Wash. — On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees that flank this central Washington valley’s irrigated …
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By Hal Bernton / The Washington State Standard
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12/29/25
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The road to Paradise has ostensibly gotten easier to climb. After three consecutive seasons of limited openings at the gate to the state’s highest-elevation road-accessible winter wonderland, Mount …
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By Gregory Scruggs / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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12/29/25
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On the Satsop Business Park, where Keys Road intersects Lambert Road, brand-new yellow Vexar tubing dots the hillside amongst the sword fern and logging slash. Protected within these mesh tubs are …
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By Andrea Watts / The Daily World
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12/29/25
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Grays Harbor County District 3 Commissioner Vickie Raines will not seek a fourth term and is stepping down from elected service. Raines made the announcement Friday afternoon.
“After months of …
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By Jerry Knaak / The Daily World
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12/29/25
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Nearly a month before his abrupt October resignation as Kalama police chief, Rafael "Ralph" Herrera received a unanimous vote of no confidence from the police union that represents the department, …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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12/29/25
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Dennis Anderson, 53, died after a tree fell on his tent during a storm earlier this month, the Cowlitz County Coroner's Office reported Friday.
The leader of a local nonprofit says he was …
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Minka Atkinson / The Daily News
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12/29/25
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