LONG BEACH — The Old Farmer’s Almanac has released its winter forecasts, saying Western Washington can expect more rain than normal, with warmer temperatures and less snow.
The USDA on Tuesday extended COVID-19 relief to nurseries, sheep ranchers and producers of dozens of other farm goods, while turning down aid to dozens of other commodities.
As of 11:59 p.m. May 12, there were 17,512 confirmed cases of covid-19 in Washington state, an increase of 182 cases over the previous 24 hours, the Department of Health reported May 13.
ILWACO — Milt Gudgell sat in his truck overlooking the Ilwaco marina Monday morning and wondered what to do next.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The governor of Oregon has come out in favor of removing four hydroelectric dams on the Snake River in Washington state, saying that is the best way to increase endangered salmon runs.
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers plan to eliminate the use of styrofoam food-service products in Washington state by enacting a bill to stop their sale and distribution.
OLYMPIA — The directors of the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife reached an agreement last week on allocations and gear types for Columbia River salmon fisheries in 2020.
Don’t feel bad for not noticing the blunt-leaf orchid. Native to bogs in the Pacific Northwest among other places, this unassuming little flower is easy to miss. It’s green all over like the moss it grows out of — right down to its green flowers.
PACIFIC COUNTY — The worst winter weather so far this season walloped Pacific County over the weekend.
ILWACO — The commercial Dungeness crab season officially commenced over the weekend, ending a delay that stalled an early December start.
LONG BEACH — Dawnya Davis used to sneak into her older brother’s bedroom to play Tomb Raider on a Sony PlayStation.
ILWACO — There’s the frugal albacore fisherman gearing up for another go on a Canadian boat named after an American animated film.
CHINOOK — The fall hunting season has started for a colorful game bird from China that tastes like chicken.
OLYMPIA — Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee will seek a third term as governor, giving him a chance to regain votes in counties that abandoned him in 2016.
OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced his bid for a third term as governor in an email to supporters, saying that while it was an honor to run for president, he wants to continue his work leading the state.
Washington’s besieged dairies are testing several promising systems for recycling cow manure, turning it into fertilizer and clean water.
OLYMPIA — Motorcyclists in Washington state lost their exemption from the state’s requirement that vehicle owners carry liability insurance when a new law took effect July 28.
WASHINGTON COAST — A trained team freed an entangled humpback whale near Tatoosh Island at the tip of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula last week, removing ropes that had hog-tied the whale between its mouth and tail.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, July 30, President Trump signed Senate Bill S. 504 into law. The bill, known as the LEGION act (Let Everyone Get Involved in Opportunities for National Service) was sponsored by Sen. Krysten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
The Washington Supreme Court will hear arguments Oct. 24 in Olympia on whether farmworkers must be paid a premium for overtime.
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The USDA on Tuesday extended COVID-19 relief to nurseries, sheep ranchers and producers of dozens of other farm goods, while turning down aid to dozens of other commodities.
As of 11:59 p.m. May 12, there were 17,512 confirmed cases of covid-19 in Washington state, an increase of 182 cases over the previous 24 hours, the Department of Health reported May 13.
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ILWACO — Milt Gudgell sat in his truck overlooking the Ilwaco marina Monday morning and wondered what to do next.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The governor of Oregon has come out in favor of removing four hydroelectric dams on the Snake River in Washington state, saying that is the best way to increase endangered s…
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers plan to eliminate the use of styrofoam food-service products in Washington state by enacting a bill to stop their sale and distribution.
OLYMPIA — The directors of the Washington and Oregon departments of Fish and Wildlife reached an agreement last week on allocations and gear types for Columbia River salmon fisheries in 2020.
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Don’t feel bad for not noticing the blunt-leaf orchid. Native to bogs in the Pacific Northwest among other places, this unassuming little flower is easy to miss. It’s green all over like the m…
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PACIFIC COUNTY — The worst winter weather so far this season walloped Pacific County over the weekend.
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ILWACO — The commercial Dungeness crab season officially commenced over the weekend, ending a delay that stalled an early December start.
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LONG BEACH — Dawnya Davis used to sneak into her older brother’s bedroom to play Tomb Raider on a Sony PlayStation.
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ILWACO — There’s the frugal albacore fisherman gearing up for another go on a Canadian boat named after an American animated film.
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CHINOOK — The fall hunting season has started for a colorful game bird from China that tastes like chicken.
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OLYMPIA — Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee will seek a third term as governor, giving him a chance to regain votes in counties that abandoned him in 2016.
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OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced his bid for a third term as governor in an email to supporters, saying that while it was an honor to run for president, he wants to continue…
Washington’s besieged dairies are testing several promising systems for recycling cow manure, turning it into fertilizer and clean water.
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OLYMPIA — Motorcyclists in Washington state lost their exemption from the state’s requirement that vehicle owners carry liability insurance when a new law took effect July 28.
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WASHINGTON COAST — A trained team freed an entangled humpback whale near Tatoosh Island at the tip of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula last week, removing ropes that had hog-tied the whale betwe…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, July 30, President Trump signed Senate Bill S. 504 into law. The bill, known as the LEGION act (Let Everyone Get Involved in Opportunities for National Service) …
The Washington Supreme Court will hear arguments Oct. 24 in Olympia on whether farmworkers must be paid a premium for overtime.
Hemp has a long way to go before joining mainstream agriculture, a U.S. Senate committee was told Thursday, even as farmers in Oregon and Washington continue to embrace the plant's new legal status.
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PACIFIC COUNTY — Pacific was fourth among Washington’s 39 counties in oxycodone and hydrocodone sales per person in the years when nationwide overuse of pain pills reached deadly proportions.
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OLYMPIA (AP) — The Washington Transportation Commission is expected to vote later this year on a proposal to replace the gas tax with a pay-per-mile system.
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VANCOUVER — In the lead-up to 2020’s primary election, citizens of Washington’s Third Congressional District have another interesting race on their hands — Carolyn Long is back in the game.
Breaking an unprecedented run of days this summer without frequenting their home waters, J, K and even possibly L pod southern resident orcas were all seen Friday morning on the west side of S…
Firing up: Wildland firefighters, managers prepare for mixed season
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OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, along with a consortium of state and tribal partners, on June 13 submitted an expanded application to lethally remove California and S…
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LONG BEACH — Despite a good chance of rain showers later this week, there’s little hope for a real break anytime soon from an official drought in Washington’s maritime counties.
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OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee is out of the state this week on an east coast campaign tour, but Democrats in Washington’s Legislature are working to pass key bills on his agenda.
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OLYMPIA — The Washington House passed a measure Thursday that seeks to eliminate fossil fuels like natural gas and coal from the state’s electricity supply by 2045.
Spring brings a burst of cherry blossoms to the Washington State Capitol as lawmakers put the finishing touches on their 2019 legislative session, scheduled to end on April 28.
The state House and Senate passed two separate state operating budget proposals last week. HB 1109, as passed by the House, calls for $52.8 billion in spending with about $2 billion in new tax…
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OLYMPIA — The state Senate passed an amended version of the operating budget totaling $52.5 billion for the next biennium with 31 in favor and 17 opposed.
OLYMPIA — Undetectable and untraceable firearms and their creation would be illegal under proposed legislation. These types of firearms are being manufactured most commonly via 3-D printers an…
OLYMPIA — Newly named hate crime offenses would let courts infer the offense was due to the perception of the victim’s association with a protected class, unless evidence suggests otherwise.
OLYMPIA — The legal age to purchase tobacco and vape products is about to rise from 18 to 21 under a bill headed to the governor’s desk after a 33-21 vote by the Washington State Senate on March 27.
House Democrats last week released their version of the 2019-21 state operating budget. After working late into the night Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee passed an amended versio…
OLYMPIA — Washington state Democrats are fulfilling some of the hefty aspirations of the Green New Deal with their own climate-change package, one that would raise the cost of producing, proce…
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LONG BEACH — Off the Washington coast, columns of bubbles rise from the seafloor, as if evidence of a sleeping dragon lying below. But these bubbles are methane that is squeezed out of sedimen…
Lawmakers in Olympia are continuing their rounds of committee hearings this week, while budget writers work behind the scenes on state spending and tax plans for the 2019-21 biennium. The reve…
OLYMPIA — Voter-approved school levy lid rates would rise from $1.50 to $2.50 per $1,000 of assessed property, under Senate Bill 5313, currently under consideration in the Senate Ways and Mean…
After a key deadline this Wednesday, the last day to pass policy bills out of their original chamber, only 681 measures out of some 2,150 introduced this session are still alive. The cut-off d…
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed SB 5273, to move Washington’s 2020 presidential primary from May to March and require voters to register by party. The bill passed both houses of t…
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers are under the clock in Olympia, as they work long hours to pass hundreds of bills in time for March 13’s 5 p.m. deadline for bills to pass their originating chamber.
OLYMPIA — Despite past voter rejection of similar proposals, Senate Transportation Committee chair Steve Hobbs rolled out a comprehensive funding package that would impose a carbon pollution f…
OLYMPIA — School District Bonds will still need 60 percent of the vote, after a Senate constitutional amendment failed to get the two-thirds vote required to pass.
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OLYMPIA — Washington state’s 19th Legislative District is fiercely independent.
OLYMPIA — Washington residents could vote to make daylight saving time year-round under a bill state senators passed March 12.
OLYMPIA — Climate-change legislation to encourage farmers to shrink their carbon footprint is running into opposition from farm groups.
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Senate passed a bill last week regarding school resource officer training in a bipartisan vote: 48 in favor and one excused.
Training would include:
OLYMPIA — The Washington State Senate voted to extend Extreme Risk Protection Orders to minors in a bipartisan 43-5 vote on March 5.
Gov. Inslee and Ferguson sent out yet another letter Thursday in regard to the initiative, this one aimed towards 262 firearms dealers in the state of Washington. Regardless of local officials…
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers are busy in Olympia’s version of “March Madness,” as members of the House and Senate continue to pass dozens of bills during lengthy floor sessions this week. Followi…
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SPOKANE — The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission agreed last week to allow the use of gillnets during the fall salmon fishery on the Lower Columbia River while state fishery managers work…
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