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    An AR-15. Courtesy photo
    For 7th straight year, Democrats aim for assault...
    By Jerry Cornfield • December 20, 2022 9:55 am

    Democratic legislators will seek several gun control laws in the 2023 session, including one requiring a permit to buy a firearm.

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    Homeless encampment in a wooded area in Auburn. (Sound Publishing file photo)
    Gov. Inslee proposes $4 billion bond to assist...
    By Jerry Cornfield • December 15, 2022 11:15 am

    WA voters would get the final say.

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    The only dinosaur discovered in Washington state was discovered by paleontologists who found a portion of a left femur of a therapod dinosaur at Sucia Island state park in the San Juan Islands. While scientists are unsure exactly what type of therapod the fossil belongs to, evidence suggests it is a Daspletosaurus. The dinosaur has been nicknamed Suciasaurus rex. This image shows a Daspletosaurus torosus restoration. (Wikipedia)
    Dinosaurs, drug laws and police pursuits on lawmaker...
    By Jerry Cornfield • December 12, 2022 10:20 am

    WA legislators are queuing up bills they want to debate next year. Here are 8 certain to garner attention.

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    Courtesy Photo, UW Medicine
    Flu season is off to historically severe start...
    By Steve Hunter • December 8, 2022 12:48 pm

    Flu-related hospitalizations are higher so far this year in U.S. than every previous season since 2011

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    King County proclaims Dan Satterberg Day to honor...
    By Steve Hunter • December 6, 2022 4:30 pm

    He worked 37 years in the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office; the last 15 as its leader

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    Canada lynx. (Photo courtesy of David Moskowitz)
    New partnership conducts research on state’s Canada lynx...
    By Hannah Saunders • December 5, 2022 10:30 am

    Washington lists the animal as endangered.

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    Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia. File photo
    Crime, climate, abortion on docket in legislative session...
    By Jerry Cornfield • November 28, 2022 2:15 pm

    Washington lawmakers will hold 39 hearings this week. Nearly all will be conducted in person, which hasn’t happened in three years.

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    State’s Native American crisis hotline is first in...
    By Joy Borkholder • November 22, 2022 3:30 pm

    The Native and Strong Lifeline provides culturally appropriate mental health support and referrals.

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    Carolyn DeFord. COURTESY PHOTO, Jovelle Tamayo
    Forum spotlights Washington’s missing and murdered Indigenous people
    By Bailey Jo Josie bailey.jo.josie@soundpublishing.com • November 16, 2022 10:53 am

    Carolyn DeFord of the Puyallup Tribe spoke about her mother’s 1999 disappearance and what has led to this crisis.

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    Moriah Hughes is suing Jehovah’s Witnesses for failing to protect her from Elihu Rodriguez, who pleaded guilty to felony child rape in 2019 and was ordered to serve five years in prison. Hughes had met him at the South Spanish Congregation in Milton, Washington. (Erick Doxey/InvestigateWest)
    How Washington state law lets clergy hide child...
    October 30, 2022 5:30 am

    By Wilson Criscione, InvestigateWest

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    Rain in the forecast for Western Washington
    By Ellen Dennis • October 18, 2022 2:40 pm

    Wildfires grow in the North Cascades as a new weather pattern moves in.

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    Carey Creek fish culvert in Maple Valley. (Photo by Cameron Sheppard/Sound Publishing)
    Local officials welcome federal money to fix outdated...
    By Cameron Sheppard • October 11, 2022 1:30 pm

    If repaired, 50 fish culverts of the 3,000 identified would restore 50 percent more salmon habitat.

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    Diversity in Law Enforcement Career workshop set by...
    By Steve Hunter • September 26, 2022 2:47 pm

    Six South King County police departments partner to attract more diverse workforce

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