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The latest news, stories and more from in and around the Seattle and Tacoma region.
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Base Camp Community plans to convert office space in a 116-year-old building into housing units for sale below market rate.
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Iran is scheduled to play two group-stage games in Inglewood, California, and one in Seattle.
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The facilities in Wenatchee and Seattle will be shuttered as part of a major reorganization over the coming year.
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Gov. Bob Ferguson had estimated $182 million in infrastructure damages, of which FEMA could cover up to $173 million. It’s not yet clear exactly how much FEMA will cover.
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The nonprofit Resilient Hearts specializes in saving animals from high-kill shelters. To help find them homes in the Pacific Northwest, they bring puppies to community events.
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State Department of Health officials tried to inspect most recently on March 20, according to the agency. The GEO Group, which runs the detention center, turned them away.
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d’Elaine Johnson is gifting her estate — including about 1,500 pieces of art — to the college. The gift will go toward scholarships for art and horticulture.
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Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration and compensation to tribes in the coming decades under the agreement.
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Former Attorney General Rob McKenna and the Citizens Action Defense Fund have filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Washington’s new income tax on high earners.
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The small tribe on the northwest corner of the Olympic Peninsula has asked to revise its permit application to let members resume the traditional subsistence whale hunt in July.
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On Wednesday morning, Washington state declared a statewide drought.
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Elected officials in Tacoma are urging Sound Transit not to abandon a planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome.