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Smoke from the Taylor Bridge wildfire rises east of Cle Elum, Washington. That 2012 wildfire burned many homes between Cle Elum and Ellensburg.

Keeping the flames at bay when there’s just one way out in a wildfire

Smoke from the Taylor Bridge wildfire rises east of Cle Elum, Washington. That 2012 wildfire burned many homes between Cle Elum and Ellensburg.

August 23, 2024, 1:33pm Latest News

Darren Higashiyama gets paid to dwell on worst-case scenarios. Read story

Secretary of state hopefuls at odds over cybersecurity

August 23, 2024, 1:29pm Election

Cybersecurity and election fraud are top of mind in this year’s race for Washington’s secretary of state. Read story

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown on Aug. 21, 2024, in New York.

Stock market today: Wall Street rallies near its record heights as ‘time has come’ for cuts to rates

FILE - The New York Stock Exchange is shown on Aug. 21, 2024, in New York.

August 23, 2024, 1:25pm Business

U.S. stocks rallied close to their records Friday after the head of the Federal Reserve finally said out loud what Wall Street has been expecting for a while: Cuts to interest rates are coming soon to help the economy. Read story

CDC: Life spans in Washington in decline

August 23, 2024, 12:56pm Health

Washington had the 11th-highest life expectancy in the U.S. in 2021, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis released Wednesday. Read story

FILE - A United States government website, COVIDTests.gov, is displayed on a computer, Jan. 19, 2022, in Walpole, Mass.

Government announces more COVID-19 tests can be ordered through mail for no cost

FILE - A United States government website, COVIDTests.gov, is displayed on a computer, Jan. 19, 2022, in Walpole, Mass.

August 23, 2024, 12:40pm Health

On the heels of a summer wave of COVID-19 cases, Americans will be able to get free virus test kits mailed to their homes, starting in late September. Read story

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Human skull found in Big Lava Bed area within Gifford Pinchot National Forest

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August 23, 2024, 12:35pm Clark County News

Human remains discovered Aug. 10 by a hiker in eastern Skamania County may belong to a 31-year-old Portland man who went missing in 2013. Read story

FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, May 24, 2024.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’s suspending his presidential bid and doesn’t want to help Harris

FILE - Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during the Libertarian National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, May 24, 2024.

August 23, 2024, 11:29am Latest News

Robert F. Kennedy said Friday he’s suspending his independent presidential bid and will seek to remove his name from the ballot in battleground states because he believes his presence in the race would help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. Read story

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Woman said she couldn’t work for fear of encountering dogs; state said she lived with six dogs and took more than $162,000

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August 23, 2024, 10:59am Business

A Southwest Washington woman has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud after investigations say she owned, fostered and sold dogs despite claiming that trauma from an on-the-job dog attack left her unable to work. Read story

Park Ranger Meg Sleeper l        ooks at the Bonneville Dam spillway Thursday.

Hydroelectric power critical to the NW but dams continue to harm fish and Native nations along the Columbia River

Park Ranger Meg Sleeper l        ooks at the Bonneville Dam spillway Thursday.

August 23, 2024, 10:58am Business

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers highlighted the role of hydroelectric power in the region’s renewable energy push during a Thursday media tour of Bonneville Dam. Read story

FILE - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell participates in a conversation with Economic Club of Washington, DC, July 15, 2024, in Washington.

Powell at Jackson Hole: ‘The time has come’ for the Fed to soon begin reducing interest rates

FILE - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell participates in a conversation with Economic Club of Washington, DC, July 15, 2024, in Washington.

August 23, 2024, 10:50am Business

With inflation nearly defeated and the job market cooling, the Federal Reserve is prepared to start cutting its key interest rate from its current 23-year high, Chair Jerome Powell said Friday. Read story