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The Washington State Senate on Friday approved Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1296 , one of this session’s most controversial and divisive pieces of legislation, on a 30-19 party-line vote.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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4/13/25
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The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has canceled $3.9 million in grants to the Washington State Library, putting key programs and at least 30 jobs in jeopardy.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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4/13/25
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REI offered a mea culpa for backing Doug Burgum, the former North Dakota governor who President Donald Trump picked for interior secretary.
The Issaquah-based co-op signed onto a letter in …
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/13/25
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The room looked undisturbed. A gold watch, pill bottles, a backpack and a toothbrush had all been left behind, tidily arranged in the small Tukwila apartment. The man's clothes had been neatly put …
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Rebecca Moss / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/13/25
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As an undercover Seattle police detective, Bryan Van Brunt was unbelievably good at living the made-up lives of the criminal characters he inhabited: an Aryan biker and gunrunner, a drug dealer, an …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/13/25
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has escalated his trade war, raising tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% last week even as he paused some taxes on imports from other countries. But another …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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4/13/25
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COSMOPOLIS, Grays Harbor County — For a long time, this small and struggling community along the Chehalis River bled money, but newly elected Mayor Linda Springer set a new direction when she …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/13/25
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A man found guilty of trying to shoot and kill a Puyallup police detective and assaulting three other officers while they tried to arrest him for violating a domestic-violence no contact order was …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/13/25
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A suspect who damaged a Tesla supercharger in Lacey last week started a fire at the site and may have been injured as a result, the FBI announced Friday.
About 1:30 a.m. April 8, the FBI says a …
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Rolf Boone / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/13/25
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The Oregon DMV reported Friday it mistakenly allowed 118 people who were almost certainly non-citizens to register to vote, bringing the total number of errant registrations discovered in the last …
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Carlos Fuentes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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Health officials in Hood River County, Oregon, say that two people have died of a rare brain disease.
County health officials say they’ve identified three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob …
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Kristine de Leon / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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Oregon’s wolf population increased last year after four years of nearly flat growth, with the animals continuing to expand their habitat westward, according to a new state report.
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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A Washington man has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for setting up an online messaging group called “Unholy girls” made up of young girls he met through social media and …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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A judge on Friday found Joseph Kelly Banks guilty except for insanity for fatally shooting three men and wounding three others in random attacks in Portland in 2022 and ordered him committed to the …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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A man in a kayak went over Willamette Falls about 11 p.m. Saturday and did not resurface, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s office said Sunday.
Multiple people called 911 to report seeing a …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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A 31-year-old man already in custody in Kentucky was arrested in connection with the killing of a woman whose body was found in a car last year, Vancouver Police Department said.
Dariel Nunez …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/13/25
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Organized labor secured a major win Saturday as Democrats in the state House pushed through legislation to provide striking workers in Washington with unemployment benefits.
But union leaders …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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4/13/25
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Washington is poised to require clergy members to report child abuse or neglect, even when it is disclosed in confession.
Nearly two-thirds of state House members approved a Senate bill on …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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4/12/25
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Hundreds of protesters — many in green shirts — gathered near Tivoli Fountain at the Capitol Campus in Olympia on Wednesday to slam recent proposals to furlough state employees.
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Simone Carter / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/12/25
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Pioneering former Washington Secretary of Health Mary Selecky died earlier this week at age 78.
The Eastern Washingtonian is credited with drastically cutting the rate of smoking and increasing …
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Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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4/12/25
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