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OLYMPIA — Lawsuits are costing local and state taxpayers in Washington too much, some lawmakers say.
Months after a proposal to change how state and local governments respond to claims of …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/31/26
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Washingtonians displaced by the state's ongoing wildfires have another option for short-term accommodations: Airbnb, the home-sharing marketplace.
Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of Airbnb, is …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/31/26
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A Clackamas County SWAT team arrested a man on Saturday afternoon after he allegedly opened fire on a team of tree cutters working near Oregon City — then used a tractor to try to fend off tactical …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/31/26
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Almost a year after U.S. president Donald Trump signed an executive order to designate antifa as a “terrorist threat,” his administration is attempting to single out leftist organizations, …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/31/26
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A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officer from Oregon is believed to have died while helping people flee a devastating wildfire in Oklahoma on Saturday, officials say.
David Taylor, 38, of Scio, …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/31/26
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The internet is full of videos of robots running races, doing backflips, dancing and playing soccer.
Doing real work, though? Jonathan Hurst says that’s harder than it looks.
He’s …
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Mike Rogoway / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/31/26
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Five people died in a head-on collision on Highway 2 outside of Wenatchee Sunday night, the Washington State Patrol said.
A 2014 Nissan Maxima with four people inside was going west on …
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By Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/31/26
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AUBURN, Wash. — In the back row of a small community college classroom, I sip my coffee and consider a cumulus cloud, a puffy white pillar over an expanse of blue. I’m not staring out the window, …
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By Alex Brown / Stateline.org
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8/31/26
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Washington state officials are keeping a longstanding program seen as vital to parents of children with developmental disabilities, but cutting its funding, ending weeks of unease about its …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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8/31/26
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The backlash arrived immediately.
On Monday, the 10,000 residents of Independence, Oregon, woke up to all five of their city parks barricaded by chain link fences, with signs saying the parks …
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/30/26
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A dumpster fire broke out at a furniture warehouse in Vancouver on Friday, ultimately spreading to an old train passenger car stored behind the building, officials said.
When firefighters …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/30/26
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Oregon used to be something of a bargain.
The state was a rare find on the West Coast, a place where homes were cheap by national standards, household products like groceries were relatively …
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Mike Rogoway / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/30/26
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A 70-year-old woman fell 400 feet to her death Friday afternoon while hiking near Horsetail Falls in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, according to the Multnomah County sheriff’s office.
The …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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Tens of thousands of birds touch down here.
Rhinoceros auklets. Tufted puffins. Purple martins. Pigeon guillemots. Pelagic cormorants. Great horned owls. Bald eagles. Glaucous-winged gulls.
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has transferred hundreds of people from its Tacoma detention center to facilities in other states this week, prompting concerns that they will have less …
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Nina Shapiro / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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A substitute teacher in Eastern Washington has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after sexually exploiting a student starting when he was 13.
Andrea Lee Campos-Hernandez, 26, who taught in …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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8/30/26
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A Franklin County judge pro tem on Friday refused to throw out the criminal charges against a Kennewick man accused of stalking state Sen. Nikki Torres’ family.
Trevor Delorme, 21, is charged …
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Eric Rosane / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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8/30/26
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On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Mike Pence was a freshman congressman from Indiana who found himself in the office of the chief of Capitol Police, with some of his fellow Republicans on one side of …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/30/26
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Passersby at Seattle Center on Saturday saw the typical Ukrainian independence day festivities, from embroidered traditional clothing, to varenyky dumplings, Ukrainian candies, and a lineup of …
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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More than 200 educators gathered Saturday afternoon in Judkins Park to prepare for a strike that could delay the first day of classes at Seattle Public Schools.
Teachers, paraeducators and …
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Claire Bryan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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