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A 17-year-old Poulsbo girl died in a head-on collision involving a city bus outside Port Ludlow, Jefferson County, on Tuesday evening, according to Washington State Patrol.
The girl was driving …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Incidents allegedly occurred between November and February in the men’s locker room, a windowless room with a lockable door.
Two Longview teens facing a range of allegations that they sexually …
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By Troy Brynelson / Oregon Public Broadcasting
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3/4/26
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The town of Newport has been scammed out of $330,000, officials announced last week in a news release.
Newport, the county seat of Pend Oreille County, lost the city funds after scammers emailed …
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Monica Carrillo-Casas / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A once-ambitious bill meant to reel in Washington’s exploding data center industry fell by the wayside during this short legislative session in Olympia.
In short, Big Tech won, said state Sen. …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Prosecutors charged 33 members of a pro-Palestinian protest group with first-degree criminal trespassing in connection with the May 2025 occupation of a University of Washington engineering building, …
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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Two men have pleaded not guilty to murder charges after prosecutors say they plotted to ambush and kill an 18-year-old man in October outside a Seattle Chipotle as revenge for allegedly stealing …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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The Metropolitan King County Council voted Tuesday to ban any new detention centers in the county for at least the next year, becoming the latest local jurisdiction to attempt to block any new …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/4/26
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A prohibition on law enforcement covering their faces, motivated by masked federal immigration agents, is one step closer to becoming Washington law.
The state House passed the legislation …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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3/4/26
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Nine days remain in the 2026 legislative session in Olympia, and the proposed income tax has yet to reach the House floor and reports circulating late Tuesday suggest it may not reach the floor this …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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The Washington state House of Representatives has passed a Senate bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings in public and on duty. The bill also creates a civil …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a plan Tuesday requiring the police department to document evidence of potentially unlawful acts by Immigrations and Custom Enforcement agents during …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline topped $3 Tuesday for the first time this year, and is expected to keep going up.
The average price Tuesday was $3.11, up about 11 …
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By David Lightman / States Newsroom
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3/3/26
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On Monday, March 2, the Grays Harbor Drug Task Force (GHDTF), with assistance from deputies from the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office (GHCSO) and officers from the Montesano and Aberdeen police …
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By The Daily World
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3/3/26
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The two Mark Morris High School students accused of sexually assaulting classmates pleaded not guilty to all charges Tuesday morning in Cowlitz County Juvenile Court.
Each suspect is charged …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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3/3/26
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The Washington state House Appropriations Committee has advanced a bill concerning a federal drug pricing program known as the 340B Program that one committee member described as a “a cash …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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A patchwork of “immigration enforcement free zones” will soon land in Spokane under ordinances passed Monday by local officials that also ban detention facilities on private property.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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In what is widely viewed as a major victory for parents’ rights, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to pause a lower court injunction, allowing a ruling to stand that blocks California …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/3/26
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The City of Olympia updated its municipal code last week to explicitly prohibit discrimination and to add “family or relationship structure” as a protected category.
The code updates …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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3/3/26
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson warned Tuesday that the income tax Democratic state lawmakers are pressing to approve in the next nine days might have to wait until next year.
The governor and …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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3/3/26
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The sale of the psychoactive plant kratom and its extracts is now banned in Spokane after the city council approved Mayor Lisa Brown's proposal to prohibit the otherwise unregulated substance within …
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Emry Dinman / The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. (TNS)
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3/3/26
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