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    Photo courtesy of Katherine Haman
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife staff clean up Caspian tern carcasses during the bird flu outbreak on Rat Island in Jefferson County, 2023.
    How to navigate the bird flu in Washington...
    By Grace Gorenflo • March 9, 2025 7:30 am

    “This looks like it might be the new normal,” said Chris Anderson, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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    One of Return Home’s cells, filled entirely with organic material, demonstrates what the terramation cells look like. Based in Auburn, Return Home is one of the few terramation companies in the world. They transform people into soil. File photo
    What we talk about, or not, when talking...
    By Perris Larson, Contributor • February 8, 2025 7:30 am

    Puget Sound area organizations and businesses strive to normalize the topic of dying.

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    Employees work at Fall City’s Aroma Coffee Co. on Jan. 14, 2025. (Grace Gorenflo/Valley Record)
    Small businesses brace for higher minimum wage in...
    By Grace Gorenflo • January 28, 2025 12:38 pm

    New wage for unincorporated areas went into effect Jan. 1, but the rules are still being determined.

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    Jeffrey Nelson receives his sentence Jan. 23 at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Photo by Joshua Solorzano/Sound Publishing
    Former Auburn cop sentenced to 16 years, 8...
    By Joshua Solorzano • January 24, 2025 2:40 pm

    A jury convicted him in June 2024 for second-degree murder after shooting Jesse Sarey in 2019

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    Fentanyl pills. (Photo provided by the Drug Enforcement Administration)
    Funds are running out to help vacate drug...
    By Joshua Solorzano • January 16, 2025 3:11 pm

    King County Department of Public Defense urges people with simple drug possession charges to use its free resources.

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    Looking out over Cell 8 during the fall 2024 public tour of the Cedar Hills Regional Landfill. Photo by Bailey Jo Josie/Sound Publishing.
    Where will all the waste go? King County’s...
    By Bailey Josie • January 10, 2025 7:00 am

    Cedar Hills Regional Landfill receives about 1 million tons of waste a year.

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    Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia. File photo
    New Washington state laws taking effect in Jan....
    By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero and Bill Lucia, Washington State Standard • January 1, 2025 11:30 am

    New restrictions on cosmetics tested on animals, tougher penalties for negligent drivers, requirements for hospitals to offer drugs to people…

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    Image taken from NWAC website of their member school map. Courtesy image
    Junior college sports landscape could see some serious...
    By Benjamin Ray • December 26, 2024 3:30 pm

    Court ruling in Tennessee could affect NCAA eligibility for Washington athletes.

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    Mount Rainier National Park has around 2 million visitors a year. Image courtesy the National Park Service
    The mountain is out and it tells cold...
    By Bailey Josie • December 25, 2024 7:00 am

    Data shows that since 2007, Mount Rainier has become the second most dangerous National Park in the winter.

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    A northern giant hornet seen on an apple. (Photo courtesy of Washington State Department of Agriculture)
    Invasive ‘murder hornets’ found in WA have been...
    By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero, Washington State Standard • December 21, 2024 9:30 am

    The hunt for invasive “murder hornets” is over in Washington and the rest of the U.S. after three years without…

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    Veronica Garcia gives an interview after winning the 2A girls 400-meter final at the 2024 Washington State Championships at Mt. Tahoma High School in Tacoma. (Screenshot from Runnerspace.com video)
    Proposals seek new rules for transgender athletes in...
    By Benjamin Ray • December 12, 2024 1:48 pm

    Other proposals target student-athlete transfer rules and girls flag football.

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    The Lummi Nation provided three colorful shawls during the MMIWP Task Force Summit in September, with turquoise representing human trafficking, purple representing overdoses (“losing our people from fentanyl”) and red representing murdered and missing Indigenous women — all crises that affect North American Natives and Tribes. The summit started with an opening ceremony with words from Lummi Tribal Chair Anthony Hillaire, Lummi Indian Business Council Secretary Lisa Wilson and a Shawl Ceremony with Lhaq’temish singers. Photo by Bailey Jo Josie/Sound Publishing
    Working toward justice for the missing and murdered...
    By Bailey Josie • November 28, 2024 7:30 am

    Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and People (MMIWP) Task Force Summit highlights progress as well as shortcomings.

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    File photo
    Thousands of firearm sales on hold in WA...
    By Jerry Cornfield, Washington State Standard • November 13, 2024 5:30 pm

    Washington state courts’ computer systems have been down for nearly two weeks, disrupting the operation of local courts and preventing…

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    Competing for the 8th Congressional District: Carmen Goers, left, and Kim Schrier. COURTESY PHOTOS
    Adam Smith and Kim Schrier will retain Congress...
    November 5, 2024 9:40 pm

    Smith represents the 9th Congressional District and Schrier represents the 8th Congressional District.

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    Republican Dave Reichert, left, and Democrat Bob Ferguson, right, are competing in Washington’s 2024 governor’s race. (Photos courtesy of campaigns)
    Ferguson defeats Reichert in governor’s race | Election...
    By Jerry Cornfield, Washington State Standard • November 5, 2024 10:00 am

    Democrats have won 10 straight gubernatorial contests.

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    Larry Best, a customer coordinator for quality assurance who has worked at Boeing for 38 years, stands outside of Angel of the Winds Arena with a “vote no” sign on Monday in Everett. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
    Boeing Machinists approve contract, ending 52-day strike
    By Michael Henneke • November 5, 2024 8:40 am

    After voting no twice, 59% of union members approved the latest contract.

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    Election workers open mail in a new secure room at Thurston County’s elections office. The county invested in a separate room to open mail after it was sent an envelope containing fentanyl last year. (Laurel Demkovich/Washington State Standard)
    How one WA county upped security ahead of...
    By Laurel Demkovich, Washington State Standard • November 2, 2024 8:00 am

    Thurston County, like others, made changes in response to evolving threats and other concerns around ballot processing.

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    A ballot drop box damaged in a suspected arson incident in Vancouver, Washington, on Oct. 28, 2024. Monika Spykerman/The Columbian/Courtesy of Washington State Standard
    Arson destroys hundreds of ballots inside a Washington...
    By Jerry Cornfield, Washington State Standard • October 29, 2024 10:00 am

    State and federal authorities are investigating a deliberately set fire that destroyed ballots inside a drop box in southwest Washington…

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    Halloween decorations in Covington support the Boeing strike. (Photo by Bailey Jo Josie/Sound Publishing)
    Boeing machinists reject another contract offer
    By Bill Lucia, Washington State Standard • October 24, 2024 3:04 pm

    Strike will continue.

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    (Photo from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Image Library)
    Health insurance premiums to rise for WA small...
    By Grace Deng Washington State Standard • October 22, 2024 12:35 pm

    This marks the highest increase for small employers in the last decade.

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