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A 70-year-old woman fell 400 feet to her death Friday afternoon while hiking near Horsetail Falls in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, according to the Multnomah County sheriff’s office.
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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Tens of thousands of birds touch down here.
Rhinoceros auklets. Tufted puffins. Purple martins. Pigeon guillemots. Pelagic cormorants. Great horned owls. Bald eagles. Glaucous-winged gulls.
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has transferred hundreds of people from its Tacoma detention center to facilities in other states this week, prompting concerns that they will have less …
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Nina Shapiro / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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A substitute teacher in Eastern Washington has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after sexually exploiting a student starting when he was 13.
Andrea Lee Campos-Hernandez, 26, who taught in …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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8/30/26
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A Franklin County judge pro tem on Friday refused to throw out the criminal charges against a Kennewick man accused of stalking state Sen. Nikki Torres’ family.
Trevor Delorme, 21, is charged …
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Eric Rosane / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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8/30/26
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On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Mike Pence was a freshman congressman from Indiana who found himself in the office of the chief of Capitol Police, with some of his fellow Republicans on one side of …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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8/30/26
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Passersby at Seattle Center on Saturday saw the typical Ukrainian independence day festivities, from embroidered traditional clothing, to varenyky dumplings, Ukrainian candies, and a lineup of …
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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More than 200 educators gathered Saturday afternoon in Judkins Park to prepare for a strike that could delay the first day of classes at Seattle Public Schools.
Teachers, paraeducators and …
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Claire Bryan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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After months of hype and mere hours in front of the jury, California's blockbuster suit against Meta ended on Wednesday with a sweeping $17-billion settlement and 130 pages of promised changes to the …
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Sonja Sharp / Los Angeles Times (TNS)
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8/30/26
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The United States has entered into an agreement with Venezuela that will give American interests majority control over more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, according to President …
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Nora Gámez Torres / Miami Herald (TNS)
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8/30/26
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Oregon’s spending on low-income housing has exploded in the past five years. The state has given developers an unprecedented $1.4 billion, and the cost of developing each apartment has nearly …
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Rob Davis, ProPublica
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8/30/26
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Washington Democratic state Rep. Tarra Simmons tried hard to keep fellow Democrat Daria Ilgen from running against her this year.
It didn’t work. The two will face off in November’s general …
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Jerry Cornfield / Washington State Standard
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8/30/26
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Washington marked a milestone Friday with the final structural beam placed on a new psychiatric facility on the Western State Hospital campus in Pierce County.
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By Jerry Cornfield and Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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8/29/26
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Two young men, Derryk Wilson, 17, of Lacey, and Charles Dorman, 20, most likely of Olympia, are dead after they exchanged gunfire in an Olympia parking lot the night of Friday, Aug. 21.
Both are …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/28/26
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Three men were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle for drug trafficking and repeatedly returning to the U.S. after being removed, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/28/26
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The fight over ballot language to accompany the income tax repeal has spilled over into a battle between two parties on the same side.
Arthur West, a frequent filer of legal complaints regarding …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/28/26
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The union representing Seattle teachers has voted to authorize a strike, putting the start of the school year on Sept. 2 in jeopardy.
The in-person vote at the Seattle Convention Center on …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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8/28/26
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Idaho Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson this year is looking to boost federal funding for tribes to address the ongoing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons crisis.
Simpson chairs the …
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By Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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8/28/26
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BOISE, Idaho — The group leading the effort to restore abortion access by ballot initiative in Idaho has filed a lawsuit against state officials over proposed language that will appear on the …
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By Kelcie Moseley-Morris / Stateline.org
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8/28/26
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A group of veterans who are incarcerated at the Idaho State Correctional Institution is providing fresh vegetables to local families from a new garden the inmates started this year.
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By Clark Corbin / Idaho Capital Sun
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8/28/26
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