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A quickly growing wildfire that triggered evacuation orders in parts of Thurston County Wednesday afternoon has been downgraded as forward progress was stopped.
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Mara Mellits / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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Local labor and activist groups are suing Tacoma and Pierce County, alleging that government officials illegally blocked a citizen-led initiative raising the city’s minimum wage to $20 from …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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An aide to former Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz alleges in a new lawsuit that her boss brushed off allegations that the agency's top lawyer was being physically and verbally abusive.
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/14/25
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A Deming man will spend more than 13 years in prison for two felonies related to his possession of more than 90,000 files depicting child sexual abuse, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He …
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Hannah Edelman / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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8/14/25
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Jim Walsh, chair of the Washington State Republican Party, says officials with the Washington State Fair are “asking for a world of hurt” if they don’t reverse course in a flap with …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/13/25
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The number of Washingtonians licensed to carry concealed pistols is climbing rapidly in the face of a new state law that will require prospective gun owners to secure a state permit before purchasing …
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8/13/25
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An engineer who stole trade secrets from Intel and shared them with his new bosses at Microsoft was sentenced Tuesday to two years of probation and ordered to pay a fine of more than $34,000.
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/13/25
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A man drowned Sunday evening in the Molalla River near Canby Community Park, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.
Enrique Hernandez-Hernandez, 24, of Salem, went under while …
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8/13/25
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Access to child care in Oregon has slowly expanded, according to a new study from Oregon State University, but it remains far from adequate to serve even half the state’s children.
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8/13/25
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The Portland Woman’s Club – one of the oldest still-operating clubs in the city – was founded as a place for women to advocate for their community and have a political voice at a …
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Samantha Swindler / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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8/13/25
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The most popular meteor shower of the summer is about to peak in Washington.
During the Perseid meteor shower, hundreds of bright, fast-moving meteors zip across the night sky.
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Hannah Poukish Daniel Schrager / The News Tribune (TNS)
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8/13/25
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Boeing delivered 48 planes in July, including 37 of its popular 737 Maxes, the company said in its monthly recap of orders and deliveries Tuesday.
That’s a dip from June — when …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/13/25
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A 25-year-old man pleaded not guilty Monday to murder and assault charges after police say he opened fire inside the waiting room of a Tacoma hospital’s emergency room last week, killing one …
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/13/25
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The U.S. Coast Guard suspended a search for a 79-year-old woman near Ocean Shores after searching for nearly 24 hours.
The woman and her husband went kayaking Monday evening when the pair got …
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Mara Mellits / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/13/25
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SEATTLE — After a sharp spike in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Washington arrests, the agency slowed down in July, according to data released this week.
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Nina Shapiro and Manuel Villa / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/13/25
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After graduating from college with a degree in philosophy, Dylan Lorio-MacNamara felt lost. It was 2020, and he planned to apply to law school, but the pandemic changed everything.
A 10-month …
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Mara Mellits / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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8/13/25
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For the first time in many years, the Pierce County Republican Party will not have a booth at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup — better known to locals as the Puyallup Fair.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/13/25
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The number of Washingtonians licensed to carry concealed pistols is climbing rapidly in the face of a new state law that will require prospective gun owners to secure a state permit before purchasing …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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8/13/25
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T he suspect in last week’s fatal Longview stabbing has been arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department, Longview police announced Tuesday afternoon.
The announcement comes a day after …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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8/12/25
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As Democratic Party leaders nationwide search for a rebuttal to President Donald Trump in next year’s midterms, voters in Washington state delivered one in the Aug. 5 primary.
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/12/25
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