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Washington State Attorney General Candidates, from left, Nick Brown, Manka Dhingra and Pete Serrano.

Who are the three candidates running for WA attorney general?

July 3, 2024, 3:00pm Election

We already know a lot about Washington’s next attorney general, even though the election is still four months away. The leader of the state’s largest law firm will be an attorney with extensive experience in government work. They will be at least a decade younger than the current occupant of… Read story

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez speaks with Clark County first responders as she holds a childcare roundtable at Vancouver City Hall on Thursday morning, June 20, 2024.

Vulnerable Blue Dogs, including Perez, predict Trump victory over Biden

July 3, 2024, 1:00pm Clark County Politics

A pair of vulnerable Blue Dog House Democrats from opposite ends of the country are both predicting that President Joe Biden would lose reelection to former President Donald Trump this year. Read story

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls in coming decades as part of a controversial plan to help spotted owl populations. (AP Photo/Ted S.

To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

July 3, 2024, 11:40am Latest News

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins. Read story

A white-tailed ptarmigan moulting into winter plumage.

Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan listed as threatened by climate change

July 3, 2024, 8:22am Northwest

The Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan — found atop the Cascades from Canada to southern Washington — is officially listed as a threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday. Read story

A sandwich board outside the information booth at the Vancouver Farmers Market in 2020 highlights the benefits for EBT card users and members of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. After SNAP benefits received a boost in 2021, SNAP benefit use at the farmers market increased by 450 percent.

At least $5.5M in food and cash assistance lost to ‘alarming surge’ in card scams

July 3, 2024, 7:44am Latest News Free

Washington residents on food assistance have lost $5.5 million to electronic benefit transfer – commonly known as EBT – card reader scams in the past two years. Read story

Ex-astronaut who died in Washington plane crash was doing a flyby near a friend’s home, NTSB says

FILE - Apollo 8 Lunar Module Pilot Gen. William Anders, speaks to reporters in front of the Saturn 5 Aft End, the F-1 rocket engines of the first stage of the Apollo 11/Saturn 5 launch vehicle ,July 20, 2004, in Washington. The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary investigation into the fatal plane crash of the former astronaut.

July 3, 2024, 7:29am Latest News

The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic “Earthrise” photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington, was doing a flyby near a friend's house when the fatal accident occurred, federal authorities said Tuesday. Read story

WA gas prices consistently higher than most of U.S. going back a decade

Gas prices in Washington are typically higher than the rest of the country going into the Fourth of July.

July 2, 2024, 2:56pm Business

According to an analysis by Gas Buddy, Washington has consistently had higher average gas prices for July 1 of each year since 2014 — even before increases resulting from the Climate Commitment Act’s carbon fees came into play. Read story