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Reports have surfaced nationwide of businesses dealing with the cost or uncertainty of reciprocal tariffs and the ever-changing worldwide trade war the Trump administration has embroiled the United …
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By Jerry Knaak / The Daily World
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5/14/25
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday signed a bill into law that will require employers with 50 or more full-time employees to give a minimum of 60 days’ notice to the state, any union, …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/14/25
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After hand-delivering over 100 letters to Washington, D.C., Pierce County Councilmember Dave Morell says emergency grants could save a historic mining town that the state left out to dry.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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5/14/25
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Noticed apartment buildings cropping up next to bus and light rail stations? More could be on the way.
Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday signed House Bill 1491 into law, setting new state …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/14/25
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Gov. Bob Ferguson signed three bills to protect immigrant rights this week.
These included measures to strengthen state power to inspect private detention facilities, prevent coercion in …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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5/14/25
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When Washington Lt. Gov. Denny Heck arrived in British Columbia last week, he wondered how he’d be received.
After all, the past few months have seen the usually strong relationship …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/14/25
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A 55-year-old Rochester woman died Tuesday night after the driver of the vehicle she was traveling in lost control and struck a rock wall along U.S. Highway 12 east of Oakville, according to the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/14/25
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On the 235th episode of The Chronicle News Dump, hosts Aaron VanTuyl and Eric Schwartz welcome guest Ruby Stanton to explain Relay for Life (and Into the Woods). The hosts also cover the safe parking …
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5/13/25
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A man accused of firing an AR-15 rifle at a Thurston County Sheriff’s Office deputy last week is in custody, Sheriff Derek Sanders announced Tuesday afternoon on social media.
“A few …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/13/25
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An employee at a gas station convenience store in Toledo is facing felony charges after he allegedly stole a winning lottery ticket from a Washington State Lottery compliance investigator.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/13/25
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A Centralia woman is facing a felony domestic violence charge for allegedly hitting a child under the age of 14 with a belt.
The incident was reported by Centralia Middle School to the …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/13/25
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A Winlock man is facing a felony charge for allegedly hitting a child under the age of 13 with a belt in March.
Martin Allen Hicks, 40, was charged April 30 in Lewis County Superior Court …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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5/13/25
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Oakville High School celebrated its new baseball and softball fields with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday, May 9, before the Acorns squads took the field for home games.
The ceremony featured a …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/13/25
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A suspect who was injured in a May 7 shootout at a home in Centralia has been booked into the Lewis County Jail and is being held on $5 million bail, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/13/25
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. …
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Whitney Bryen and Kaylee Tornay / InvestigateWest
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5/13/25
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Thurston County Commissioner Wayne Fournier has another full-time job. In another county. He’s a firefighter in Grays Harbor. At a board of county commissioners meeting on Tuesday, April 15, …
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Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@yelmonline.com
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5/13/25
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A majority of the members of the Chehalis City Council closed their Monday night meeting by speaking out against the Hope Housing Collaborative of Lewis County safe parking pilot program that will …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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5/13/25
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Like his father and his grandfather, Marshal Cummings grew up mining trona, a substance used in everything from glass to pharmaceuticals and baking soda. When he was 22, that meant spending 16-hour …
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Daniel Walters / InvestigateWest
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5/13/25
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Funding for an abortion care program will be reduced by more than 50% under the state budget plan awaiting Gov. Bob Ferguson’s signature.
Washington created the Abortion Access …
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Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / Washington State Standard
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5/13/25
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Ferry system managers and state budget writers in Washington took a cold wave over the bow Monday upon opening the bids to construct up to five new hybrid electric ferries.
“I don’t …
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Tom Banse / Washington State Standard
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5/13/25
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