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President Donald Trump announced late Sunday that he was directing U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers to conduct immigration raids in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the …
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Ariana Figueroa / Washington State Standard
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6/17/25
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Few, if any, members of the Washington state Legislature have been allowed to climb to the top of the state Capitol dome this century.
That will soon change.
A provision in the new capital …
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Jerry Cornfield / Washington State Standard
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6/17/25
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Desperate for money to get through the next two wildfire seasons and with few proposals on the table that could meet costs and get passed by the Oregon Legislature, Gov. Tina Kotek is proposing to …
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Alex Baumhardt / Washington State Standard
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6/17/25
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After more than two weeks searching the Central Washington state wilderness, authorities have yet to find and capture Travis Decker, the Wenatchee man wanted for the kidnapping and murder of his …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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6/17/25
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For years, foster parents in Eatonville, Washington, abused five girls, but the girls couldn’t hold the state accountable for wrongfully placing them in the home and failing to protect them …
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Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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6/17/25
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The journey is not over for a voter initiative that took aim at Washington's natural gas and energy policies.
Initiative 2066 was narrowly passed by voters by about 52% in November, but was …
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Amanda Zhou / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/17/25
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The Department of Energy is ready to begin a three-year construction project critical to the environmental cleanup of the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington.
The huge, lined landfill in …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/17/25
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A Tri-Cities father and local business owner has been deported after a federal immigration judge denied his request to stay in the United States.
Sergio Cerdio Gomez, 42, of Pasco, will depart …
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Eric Rosane / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/17/25
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Perched on the side of a mountain in the Columbia River Gorge, the White Salmon Valley School District is the kind of place where the school is the heartbeat of the community.
There aren't any …
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By Dahlia Bazzaz / The Seattle Times
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6/16/25
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A Washington State Patrol trooper will face charges despite the Spokane County prosecutor announcing his retirement, officials said.
Spokane Prosecutor Larry Haskell announced earlier this week …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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6/16/25
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Amid a recent surge in arrests of immigrants allegedly living in the country illegally, some raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have drawn quiet concern from Republicans in Congress …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/16/25
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A West Valley High School Spanish teacher lost his job after reading a passage from "To Kill a Mockingbird" that contained a racial slur.
The West Valley School District board decided not to …
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Elena Perry / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/16/25
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Two men who were severely injured in a propane fire Wednesday took heroic actions to prevent a much larger catastrophe, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
Two employees of …
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Constanza Montemayor / The News Tribune (TNS)
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6/16/25
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The Tacoma Fire Department reported responding to more than 300 calls related to fires suspected to be caused by people living unhoused in the past year.
Chelsea Shepherd, public information …
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Cameron Sheppard / The News Tribune (TNS)
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6/16/25
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Washington state sued a property-management firm and others on Friday over alleged unfair and deceptive practices toward low-income seniors, including at a 231-unit apartment complex in Tacoma.
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By Shea Johnson / The News Tribune (TNS)
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6/16/25
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OLYMPIA — The Republican and Democratic leaders of the Washington House and Senate released a joint statement Sunday condemning political violence following the assassination and …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/16/25
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Officials say a motorcycle accident injured an Olympia man late Saturday night on Interstate 5 near Castle Rock.
Paul D. Coalman, 40, was speeding on southbound I-5 just north of exit 48 for …
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By The Daily News
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6/16/25
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Even as Washington's latest carbon auction generated $322 million for the state – bringing total revenue to nearly $3.2 billion since the cap-and-trade program took effect in January 2023 …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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6/16/25
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Hundreds of flatbed loads of honey bees are trucked into Washington every spring, enabling the production of apples, cherries, pears and berries in the state.
The pollinators are estimated to …
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By Isaac Stone Simonelli / Cascadia Daily News via The Washington State Standard
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6/16/25
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Washington’s Clemency and Pardons Board will be expanded, and members will begin to receive pay under a state law approved earlier this year.
Enlarging the board is intended to help it …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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6/16/25
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