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An Eastern Washington state man died Wednesday evening after a young child fired a pellet gun, hitting him in the neck, according to the Adams County Sheriff’s Office.
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/29/26
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In September 2016, officials with Tokyo-based Nippon Paper Industries gathered in Longview to christen a decades-old pulp and paper mill they'd recently purchased from Seattle-based Weyerhaeuser.
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/29/26
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A 41-year-old man who spent nearly three months secretly living in the crawlspace under a family’s Happy Valley townhouse has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Beniamin Bucur was …
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Douglas Perry / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/29/26
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The massive tank failure this week at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging mill in Longview released hundreds of thousands of gallons of “white liquor,” a highly corrosive chemical that’s now …
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Kristine de Leon, Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/29/26
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A convicted sex offender is accused of cutting into the tent of two women camping near a public trail in Tillamook County, covering their eyes, binding them and threatening to sexually assault them.
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/29/26
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A Tukwila-based immigration attorney who gave up her law license this week to avoid discipline following a misconduct complaint and federal lawsuit had more than 35,000 clients, including potentially …
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Yesenia Amaro / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/29/26
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Two floating homes were destroyed – and a floating home under construction was damaged – in a fire that swept through a small community along the Columbia River early Friday morning, Portland …
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Douglas Perry / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/29/26
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Cheryl Poxleitner, 71, grew up on farms in North Central Idaho’s Lewis County.
When she was 8, her family moved to Craigmont — a small town near Grangeville, where her dad raised dairy …
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By Kyle Pfannenstiel / Idaho Capital Sun
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5/29/26
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The Trump administration sued four Democratic-led states Wednesday over the states’ refusal to grant undercover license plates to federal agents, marking the latest escalation between state …
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By Shaanth Nanguneri / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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5/29/26
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A ginormous cost increase to construct a new bridge linking Washington and Oregon is forcing state leaders and program managers to rightsize public expectations for the megaproject.
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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5/29/26
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Six employees missing after a southwest Washington chemical tank blast have been recovered, authorities said Thursday afternoon.
This brings the confirmed death toll to eight, and leaves three …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/28/26
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A California man was sentenced to prison in a Tri-Cities insurance fraud case that involved an elaborate scheme to buy cars and stage crashes to collect on fake injuries.
As part of the case, he …
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By Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/28/26
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The U.S. Department of Justice filed separate federal lawsuits Wednesday against Washington, Oregon, Maine and Massachusetts, escalating a clash between the Trump administration and Democratic-led …
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By Andrew Paxton / The Center Square
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5/28/26
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The death of a 4-year-old boy whose body was located in a shallow grave this month in Aberdeen draws disturbing parallels to another child death case also tied to the Washington state Department of …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/28/26
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A federal judge on Thursday declined to block President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, finding that it was too early to challenge the directive.
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By Jonathan Shorman / States Newsroom
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5/28/26
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For the third year in a row, Washington insurance companies requested a double-digit rate increase for their individual health plans, reviving worries that the cost of coverage is becoming untenable.
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By Jessica Fu / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/28/26
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As an initiative to repeal Washington’s new income tax on households earning more than $1 million gains steam, Gov. Bob Ferguson is vowing to veto any effort to expand the levy to less-wealthy …
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By Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/28/26
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Parents and community members in Longview are calling on members of the school board to resign following last week’s arrest of Superintendent Karen Cloninger on charges of obstructing an …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/28/26
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Water contaminated by the release of white liquor from the implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in Longview is being flushed through the city’s ditch system to dilute it to levels …
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Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/28/26
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Kennewick residents living downwind of the city’s sewer treatment facility will get some much-needed relief thanks to a state-of-the-art $43 million biosolids facility.
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Eric Rosane / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/28/26
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