The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission unanimously voted to deny a petition allowing those 65 and older to use a crossbow for hunting during archery season.
The commission is appointed by the …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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6/12/22
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Thurston County's COVID-19 vaccination clinic is set to permanently close after operating for more than a year.
Thurston County Public Health and Social Services announced last week the clinic at …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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6/12/22
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Washington wildlife managers are increasing how often they will be testing for a deadly neurological disease found in deer and elk.
Starting on July 1, the Washington Department of Fish and …
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Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review
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6/12/22
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Human-animal encounters — of the violent kind — have been in the news. Most notably, and closest to home, a 9-year-old girl was attacked by a cougar less than two hours from Spokane. …
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Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review
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6/12/22
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Clark-Cowlitz firefighters rescued a man and his two daughters from drowning in the East Fork Lewis River after their boat capsized Saturday afternoon.
Firefighters from Clark-Cowlitz Fire …
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Dylan Jefferies / The Columbian
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6/12/22
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Masked and uniformed members of a white nationalist group were arrested in Coeur d'Alene on Saturday afternoon, the same day as Pride in the Park was scheduled, police said.
Coeur d'Alene …
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Quinn Welsch and Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review
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6/11/22
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SEATTLE — The Seattle Space Needle has sued a local coffee chain for using its trademarked logo in coffee shop branding and merchandise.
The logo for Local Coffee Spot, which has four …
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Maya Miller / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/11/22
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MAPLE VALLEY — The banks of the Cedar River are lush and verdant. A patchwork carpet of soft green biodiversity. Just within a couple of yards of the water's edge, the species are abundant, the …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times
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6/11/22
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An 89-year-old Seattle man was charged Friday with premeditated first-degree murder, accused of fatally shooting his wife with a shotgun days before he turned himself in to police, according to King …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times
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6/11/22
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On Tucker Carlson Tonight, 3rd Congressional District candidate Joe Kent, R-Yacolt, continued to perpetuate the erroneous conspiracy theory that spurred the violent Jan. 6 Capitol rampage.
Kent …
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Lauren Ellenbecker / The Columbian
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6/10/22
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A 40-year-old man was charged Friday in the stray-bullet killing of a woman at a Spanaway gas station. The murder suspect was arrested four days after the shooting on unrelated felony …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune
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6/10/22
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The city of Kent will pay more than $1.5 million to purchase the resignation of a former assistant police chief who was disciplined for posting a Nazi rank insignia on his office door and joking …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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6/10/22
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Wolves killed a calf on private industrial timberland this week and the attack, which is the latest in a series this month, could prompt the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to kill some …
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Eli Francovich / The Spokesman-Review
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6/10/22
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The bird flu has made its way to Yakima County, and state officials encourage flock owners to take steps to protect uninfected birds.
A backyard flock in Yakima County tested positive for highly …
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Kate Smith / Yakima Herald-Republic
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6/10/22
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A Kennewick activist is accused of raping a string of sex workers at gunpoint over the course of two years.
Investigators say Brandon Lamon Jones, 26, used a website to find women willing to …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald
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6/10/22
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State representatives in Washington are exploring a ban on assault weapons, and the possibility of requiring gun owners to receive training and to license and register their firearms. These moves are …
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Monica Velez / The Seattle Times
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6/10/22
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The city of Seattle has paid $500,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the father of a 19-year-old man shot and killed after Seattle police abandoned their East Precinct on Capitol Hill …
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Mike Carter / The Seattle Times
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6/10/22
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It's now been more than two weeks since the last time Aliyah Lynn Bowman was seen.
The Yelm Police Department and Washington State Patrol sent out a missing persons report on June 9 for Bowman, …
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Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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6/10/22
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A 32-year-old Lacey woman reached out to The Olympian this week after she read about a woman in west Olympia who was attacked by a man while walking home from work on Saturday, June 4.
The same …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian
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6/10/22
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Thurston County plans to stop accepting new applications for rent assistance payments on June 15 due to dwindling funds.
Tom Webster, Office of Housing & Homeless Prevention manager, shared …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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6/10/22
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