OLYMPIA — A measure calling for a constitutional amendment and laws that would tackle felon voting, campaign finance, and presidential candidate tax returns came in front of the House Committee on State Government and Tribal Relations on Feb. 15.
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ASTORIA, Ore. — I know a lot of cops, and most of them are good people. I think the public — and the media — are often guilty of giving police hell for things they don’t understand. So, while …
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PACIFIC COUNTY — County residents may be eligible for electricity bill discounts.
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PENINSULA — Clear weather and favorable tide conditions culminated with a multitude of 8,300 clam diggers descending on the Peninsula over the weekend. Beach approaches from Seaview to Surfsid…
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WASHINGTON — With only one new case last week, health authorities in Clark County were cautiously optimistic that efforts to suppress a measles outbreak were working. However, in a Friday, Feb…
LONG BEACH — The Ocean Beach School District Board of Directors is accepting applications for an upcoming vacancy.
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PENINSULA — The 2018-2019 school year will be Cathy Meinhardt’s last year with the Ocean Beach School District. Meinhardt serves as principal at Long Beach Elementary and Ocean Park Elementary.
A Hillsboro man was arrested for attempted rape and other charges after he was found in a snowbound vehicle late Friday with a teenage girl.
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SEATTLE — Exposure to glyphosate — the world’s most widely used, broad-spectrum herbicide and the primary ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup — increases the risk of some cancers by more than…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, the Battle Ground Republican representing Washington’s Third Congressional District, said Feb. 14 she opposes President Donald Trump’s decla…
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OLYMPIA — The Senate passed a bill Feb. 15 to remove the death penalty from Washington state statutes, replacing it with life in prison without parole.
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OLYMPIA — A proposed bill would require public schools to provide comprehensive sexual health education as a part of their curriculum.
SEATTLE — According to a report by the Urban Indian Health Institute, Seattle has the most cases of missing and murdered American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls than any other city i…
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NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center issued an El Niño Advisory last week, indicating the climate pattern has taken effect and is likely to continue through the spring. While the El Niño is expect…
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OLYMPIA — State shellfish managers have tentatively scheduled razor clam digs on ocean beaches for 12 days starting March 16 and extending into late April. Of these, only two additional days a…
LONG BEACH — It can cost a load to take care of laundry.
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OLYMPIA — Martin Jones, the former Long Beach man convicted of attempting to murder a Washington State Trooper, may get another trial. On Feb. 14, the state Court of Appeals said there are eno…
OCEAN PARK — The pool at Dunes Bible Camp is closed for repairs, and will likely remain closed for several more days.
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OLYMPIA — Two bills in the state Legislature, if passed, would allow a controversial pesticide to be used by shellfish growers to kill burrowing shrimp, a pest that growers say threatens their…
Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, a Democrat, is heading a new coalition supporting passage of USMCA. He was ambassador to China and U.S. commerce secretary in the Obama administration.
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LONG BEACH — Grab your boots and get your shovel, razor clamming will return for a one-day evening dig on the Long Beach Peninsula this weekend. The evening dig was approved for Sunday, Feb. 1…
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The number of legal-sized white sturgeon (38 to 54 inches in fork length) in the Columbia River downstream of Bonneville Dam declined in 2018, while the number of sturgeon large enough to spaw…
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GRAYS HARBOR AND PACIFIC COUNTIES — On the day of the big raid in late 2017, there were so many local, state and federal police involved that the Grays Harbor Drug Task Force held their mornin…
LONG BEACH — Project Community Connect’s 2019 attendee count was higher than last year’s.
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LONG BEACH — Three members of Ocean Beach School District’s Board of Directors won’t run for re-election this year.
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ILWACO — What do Black Lake, law enforcement, sewage and the Planning Commission all have in common?
On Jan. 28 at 2:15 a.m., LBPD stopped a vehicle for a traffic infraction. Suspect Edward L. Bendzick, 36, from Long Beach was cited for driving under the influence of intoxicants.
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SOUTH BEND — The strange case of drug-and-gun-dealing amusement park owner, erstwhile fugitive and Scientology rehab patient Robert “Tony” Anthony Merrill, 53, is almost over.
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Snow is starting to cover some major east-west highways in Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon.
OLYMPIA — A new fee on foreign labor advocated by the Washington Employment Security Department and labor activists will worsen a worker shortage and leave more crops unharvested, two farmers …
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WILLAPA — Jackie Ferrier, the hard-working leader at the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge Complex, has won a top national award.
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COLUMBIA RIVER — Anglers can expect fewer spring Chinook salmon returning to the Columbia River this year as fisheries managers are predicting a total run of 157,500 fish. That’s about 11 perc…
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LONG BEACH — A recent survey is providing the city with insight on resident concerns.
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LONG BEACH — Two months after the Klean rehab center suddenly closed, workers are still waiting to get paid.
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PENINSULA — Peninsula Poverty Response has big dreams for the next five years.
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OCEAN PARK — In another era, the slogan was “dig for victory.”
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OCEAN PARK — Will Schaefer, 20, doesn’t have a swastika tattoo or a white hood. He doesn’t go to cross-burnings or goose-step at rallies. Instead, like a growing number of isolated young white…
LONG BEACH — City councilors had a lot to learn at their most recent meeting.
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PENINSULA — Snow flurries started before noon Sunday in what was forecast to be a light dusting at sea level in Pacific County. But before the night was over, much of the Long Beach Peninsula …
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The sunrise on Feb. 4 over the Columbia River estuary illuminated scenes of amazing beauty, and the sounds of playing children and foraging hummingbirds. In center frame at the start of this v…
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After the snowiest night in about decade left close to half a foot in places, Long Beach Peninsula residents began digging out Monday morning, Feb. 4. School children celebrated the snow day, …
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UPDATE AT 7:10 a.m.: Ocean Beach School District will be closed due to snow today, Feb. 4. This means the Peninsula Boys and Girls Club also won't open today.
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Snow flurries continued off and on Sunday, Feb. 3, on Cape Disappointment, but it wasn't sticking as of 4:30 p.m. It is the first snow of the 2018-19 winter.
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An enormous old drift log about 4 to 5 feet in diameter and about 25 feet long was tumbled around by high tide on Benson Beach in Cape Disappointment State Park Sunday morning as snowy sleet f…
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OLYMPIA — A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed a bill to create suicide review teams to study youth deaths in the state of Washington.
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OLYMPIA — A proposal prompted by the 2015 “Ride the Ducks” accident on the Aurora Bridge in Seattle came one step closer to becoming law on Wednesday as people voiced their views on changes to…
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