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Environmental and public interest advocates expressed alarm on Wednesday following the Washington state Department of Ecology’s announcement supporting a new natural gas power plant on the site of …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/19/26
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The Hub City Car Show returns Saturday, Aug. 22, which means that once again classic and custom cars will line the streets throughout downtown Centralia.
Organized by the Centralia Downtown …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/19/26
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Lewis County Swift Water Rescue’s Technical Rescue Team and Lewis County Search and Rescue were dispatched at about 4 p.m. Aug. 14 to the area of Forest Road 63 and Davis Creek Road for a rescue, …
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By The Chronicle Staff
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8/19/26
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Members of the Toledo City Council on Monday tabled a proposed ordinance that would update existing city code for business signs within city limits and sent it back to the Toledo Planning Commission …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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It served as a constant reminder. It was always within eyesight. It was simple, yet monumental.
Hallie Bergford had a note taped above her bed while she was at Seattle University with the …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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State Rep. Greg Smith, a Republican from Heppner, lost a committee leadership position last week after agreeing to pay a $12,000 fee approved by Oregon’s government ethics watchdog.
But he …
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Carlos Fuentes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/19/26
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A Portland jury took only a few hours Tuesday to reject a man’s $10 million ask after he burglarized a stone countertop business while homeless and nearly lost his life when the owner shot him …
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Aimee Green / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/19/26
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The man once credited as the “primary source of fentanyl” in the Tri-Cities will soon be heading to federal prison.
David Mendoza Ayala led a large-scale drug distribution ring from his Horn …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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8/19/26
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A 51-year-old man claimed he started a fire at a Mead gas station because he was trying to catch the attention of first responders after three people he could not see were following him, according to …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/19/26
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Two men found dead last week in a Hillyard home have been identified.
The Spokane County Medical Examiner's Office said Jibin "Mark" Fan, 51, died from blunt-force injuries of the head and ruled …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/19/26
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Bank of America on Tuesday announced the company is directing $250,000 to the American Red Cross to support relief and recovery efforts across the Pacific Northwest, including in Spokane.
"The …
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Troy Slack / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/19/26
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A Moses Lake man accused of threatening another person with a sword and later assaulting a police officer was arrested after a confrontation with law enforcement in which a police K-9 was deployed, …
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Nance Beston / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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8/19/26
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Something is going terribly wrong here."
This is the uneasy feeling Jule Schultz walks around with. A marine biologist by training, he now works on river science in Spokane.
Only the river …
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/19/26
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ADNA — It took not once, not twice, but three times for the Adna High School football team to jog into their giant circle for jumping jacks.
And Aaron Cochran was not jovial after the first …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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For more than 65 years, the Westport Fishermen’s Monument has stood as a place of remembrance, honoring the men and women who made their living on the sea and those who never came home. For over …
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By The Daily World
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8/19/26
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A rapid response by Cascadia Research Collective, a member of the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Network, successfully freed an entangled humpback whale off the coast of Westport after …
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By The Chinook Observer
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8/19/26
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Twenty-foot waves cresting off Westport. Swift and dangerous currents coursing through Hood Canal. Tsunami water pushing down to Olympia and up to Washington's northern border with Canada.
For …
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/19/26
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While customers perused Rings of Chain's table displays of abalone shell pendants, beaded earrings and brooches, owner Ha-huli-tud Tionna Marie Hawk greeted a Suquamish Tribal elder, Kippie Joe, …
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Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/19/26
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Oil rose for a fourth day, with no sign of progress toward a resolution of the U.S.-Iran war after almost six months of conflict.
Brent climbed toward $92 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate …
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Rong Wei Neo / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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8/19/26
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Nearly 700,000 acres have burned across Idaho so far this year, and state officials are predicting fire risk will remain high through September.
As the costs to fight fires increase, state …
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Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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8/19/26
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