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Longview considers new sales tax to expand police department

May 19, 2024, 5:05pm Northwest

Longview voters may soon be asked to pass a new sales tax to expand the city's police department. The Longview City Council held a workshop Thursday to discuss the need to hire up to six more police officers. Read story

A sign is displayed at the Clackamas County Democratic party building, which is in Oregon&#039;s 5th Congressional District, on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Oregon City, Ore. Two Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats in Oregon could help reveal whether the party&#039;s voters are leaning more toward progressive or establishment factions. Candidates running in the state&#039;s 3rd and 5th Congressional Districts largely share similar policy platforms.

In Oregon’s Democratic primaries, progressive and establishment wings battle for U.S. House seats

A sign is displayed at the Clackamas County Democratic party building, which is in Oregon&#039;s 5th Congressional District, on Friday, May 17, 2024, in Oregon City, Ore. Two Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats in Oregon could help reveal whether the party&#039;s voters are leaning more toward progressive or establishment factions. Candidates running in the state&#039;s 3rd and 5th Congressional Districts largely share similar policy platforms.

May 19, 2024, 4:50pm Northwest

Two Democratic primaries for U.S. House seats in Oregon could help reveal whether the party’s voters are leaning more toward progressive or establishment factions in a critical presidential election year. Read story

Gig Harbor baby’s injuries raised red flags. Did child-welfare system fail her parents?

May 19, 2024, 6:10am Northwest

Winona Thigpen was sick in early October. Read story

Cockfighting operation are often in rural areas, making them a challenge for evidence gathering by law enforcement.

Roosters rescued from Yakima Valley cockfights as state cracks down on animal abuse

Cockfighting operation are often in rural areas, making them a challenge for evidence gathering by law enforcement.

May 19, 2024, 6:05am Latest News

Mutilated, injected and forced to kill or be killed: Roosters raised for the blood sport of cockfighting face a hellish life. Read story

An EA-18G Growler engine&rsquo;s thrust with afterburner propels its takeoff with a loud roar from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island during an exercise, Thursday, March 10, 2016.

Navy jet noise could mean long-term health impacts for Washington’s Whidbey Island

An EA-18G Growler engine&rsquo;s thrust with afterburner propels its takeoff with a loud roar from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island during an exercise, Thursday, March 10, 2016.

May 19, 2024, 6:03am Health

More than 74,000 people on Whidbey Island could face long-term health impacts from the U.S. Navy jet noise that’s blasted over residents several days a week for over a decade, new research shows. Read story

Shawna Williams, owner of Free Range Cycles, poses outside her shop on May 6, 2024, in Seattle, Wash. Williams didn&rsquo;t have the sales surge others did because her 700 square foot shop was so small she kept it open by appointment only from March 2020 to May 2021.

Bike shops boomed early in the pandemic in the Northwest and the nation. It’s been a bumpy ride for most ever since

Shawna Williams, owner of Free Range Cycles, poses outside her shop on May 6, 2024, in Seattle, Wash. Williams didn&rsquo;t have the sales surge others did because her 700 square foot shop was so small she kept it open by appointment only from March 2020 to May 2021.

May 19, 2024, 6:02am Business

For the nation’s bicycle shops, the past few years have probably felt like the business version of the Tour de France, with numerous twists and turns testing their endurance. Read story

Rebecca Schaeffer&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s mother, Danna, right, hugs Deputy Dist. Atty. Marcia Clark after the verdict for Robert John Bardo was announced.

A young actress, an obsessed stalker and a Hollywood murder that changed America

Rebecca Schaeffer&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s mother, Danna, right, hugs Deputy Dist. Atty. Marcia Clark after the verdict for Robert John Bardo was announced.

May 19, 2024, 6:00am Latest News

The prosecutor was studying the killer’s confession, trying to understand what was wrong with it. In her first few viewings of the videotape, Marcia Clark had the gnawing sense that he was lying. She took careful notes. She watched to the end, rewound and watched again. Read story

Gonzaga graduate spreads mental health message on college campus

May 19, 2024, 5:47am Health

When anxiety plagued him his college freshman year, Grant Hagen leaned into one repeated thought. Read story

In the Lower Yakima Valley, state agriculture department seeks to wipe out Japanese beetles

May 19, 2024, 5:09am Northwest

Camilo Acosta opens up a freezer, revealing boxes of dozens and dozens of clear plastic bags full of beetles. Nearly 70,000 Japanese beetles, that is. The beetle morgue is in the Washington State Department of Agriculture’s Grandview office, which is in the epicenter of Lower Yakima Valley eradication efforts. Read story

King County recorder misdirected millions in funds, audit finds

May 19, 2024, 5:06am Northwest

The King County Recorder’s Office, the agency that collects taxes on home sales, oversees marriage licenses and records real estate sales, mortgages and deeds, misallocated nearly $7 million over six years, while overcharging customers by a total of about $1 million, a new audit found. Read story