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Yakima man credited to 1924 bill’s passage granting Native Americans U.S. citizenship

October 12, 2024, 5:04am Life

Sixty years before the Civil Rights Act was signed, another law monumentally expanding rights was enacted. Read story

Irrigation season in Yakima ends Tuesday

October 11, 2024, 4:33pm Northwest

Yakima will shut off the city’s irrigation system on Tuesday, marking the end of the irrigation season. Read story

FILE - Unpainted Boeing 737 Max aircraft are seen on Sept. 24, 2024, at the company&#039;s facilities in Renton, Wash.

Boeing will lay off 10% of its employees as a strike by factory workers cripples airplane production

FILE - Unpainted Boeing 737 Max aircraft are seen on Sept. 24, 2024, at the company&#039;s facilities in Renton, Wash.

October 11, 2024, 4:16pm Northwest

Boeing plans to lay off about 10% of its workers in the coming months as it continues to lose money and tries to deal with a strike that is crippling production of the company’s best-selling airline planes. Read story

Quagga mussels from Lake Mead, in Nevada. (Dave Britton, U.S.

Idaho will again attempt to kill invasive mussels in Snake River with copper-based chemical

Quagga mussels from Lake Mead, in Nevada. (Dave Britton, U.S.

October 11, 2024, 4:15pm Northwest

State officials and contractors will begin using a copper-based chemical in the Snake River near Twin Falls on Tuesday in an effort to kill off invasive quagga mussels that were detected again last month. Read story

FILE - Vivek Shandas, a professor of climate adaptation at Portland State University, takes a temperature reading of almost 106 degrees in downtown Portland, Ore., Aug. 12, 2021.

Oregon’s most populous county adds gas utility to $51B climate suit against fossil fuel companies

FILE - Vivek Shandas, a professor of climate adaptation at Portland State University, takes a temperature reading of almost 106 degrees in downtown Portland, Ore., Aug. 12, 2021.

October 11, 2024, 4:14pm Northwest

Oregon's Multnomah County, home to Portland, has added the state's largest natural gas utility to its $51.5 billion climate lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their role in the region's deadly 2021 heat- dome event. Read story

Kevin James Reynolds

Man who led police on 2022 manhunt sentenced in Cowlitz County

Kevin James Reynolds

October 11, 2024, 1:28pm Northwest

The Kalama man who launched a three-day manhunt in 2022 for multiple crimes from Cowlitz County to Northwest Oregon was sentenced to over 27 years Thursday morning. Read story

FILE - A nurse talks to a patient in the emergency room at Salem Hospital in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 20, 2021. Oregonians will vote Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, on a slate of measures including one that would add a permit and in-person firearms training class for new gun buyers and another that would make Oregon the first state to mandate health care as a human right.

Washington not on pace to fill growing job gap

FILE - A nurse talks to a patient in the emergency room at Salem Hospital in Salem, Ore., on Aug. 20, 2021. Oregonians will vote Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, on a slate of measures including one that would add a permit and in-person firearms training class for new gun buyers and another that would make Oregon the first state to mandate health care as a human right.

October 11, 2024, 11:44am Business

Washington will have more than 1.5 million job openings in the next eight years but it’s not currently training enough people to fill them.  Read story

Political campaign signs are seen along state Highway 14 on Thursday morning. Legislative candidates in Clark County are reporting rampant vandalism and theft of campaign signs. &ldquo;This issue is much worse than what I experienced during my last campaign in 2022,&rdquo; said 17th Legislative District House Position 2 candidate Terri Niles, a Democrat.

Can you get arrested for taking down a campaign sign from someone’s yard? What WA law says

Political campaign signs are seen along state Highway 14 on Thursday morning. Legislative candidates in Clark County are reporting rampant vandalism and theft of campaign signs. &ldquo;This issue is much worse than what I experienced during my last campaign in 2022,&rdquo; said 17th Legislative District House Position 2 candidate Terri Niles, a Democrat.

October 11, 2024, 7:41am Clark County Politics

The 2024 general election is less than a month away, which means we’re reaching the peak of campaign season. By now, you’ve probably seen at least a few yard signs endorsing someone’s preferred candidate, and even more will likely pop up as the election approaches. Read story

I-5 shootings suspect incompetent, must undergo treatment, judge orders

October 11, 2024, 7:40am Northwest

A King County Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered a man accused of randomly shooting people while driving on Interstate 5 last month to spend three months at an inpatient treatment facility after finding him incompetent. Read story

WA State Parks won’t reopen Cama Beach cabins

October 11, 2024, 7:38am Northwest

The Washington State Parks Commission voted unanimously Thursday not to reopen the Cama Beach cabins on Camano Island due to risks from sea-level rise and the presence of Indigenous human remains. The 33 cabins have been closed since Feb. 26 when a winter storm damaged a seawall and compromised the… Read story