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A harbor seal found shot in the face near the Herb Beck Marina in Quilcene Bay off Hood Canal last week is recovering but may not be able to survive in the wild, officials say.
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/27/26
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More than five years after his firing, Dr. Bob Lutz is trying to reopen his federal lawsuit against the Spokane Regional Health District.
Dismissed last year, the case may be revived by a …
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Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/27/26
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After finishing a close second in a state considered key to winning the presidency, Donald Trump claimed on social media that his opponent had "illegally cheated" and said the results should be …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/27/26
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Majority Democrats in the state House and Senate unveiled competing supplemental budget proposals Sunday as lawmakers race toward a March 12 legislative session adjournment.
The plans dropped …
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Sophia Sostrin / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/27/26
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Lummi Nation Chair Anthony Hillaire can’t help but find the irony in tribal members being followed or stopped by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/27/26
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A former Prosser paraeducator is facing a year in jail after being caught with thousands of fentanyl pills and a half pound of methamphetamine.
Amy M. Buxton, 45, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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2/27/26
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After a steep drop in vendors and customers last year, the Pasco Flea Market opens for the season on Saturday, Feb. 28 with vendors banking on a rebound.
Last year, where there were once …
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Larissa Babiak / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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2/27/26
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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.
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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.
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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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