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Project engineers partially drained Capitol Lake this week, part of a plan to transform Olympia by removing a dam and restoring the tidelands and estuary that was there before.
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Matt Driscoll, the popular columnist and opinion editor for the Tacoma News Tribune died unexpectedly on Sunday, at the age of 43.
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The U.S. government has acknowledged the harmful effects dams have had on tribal fisheries. OPB reporter Tony Schick found that some of these actions were deliberate.
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Chief Seattle Club has built hundreds of affordable and supportive housing units, but some say residents need more mental health and substance abuse treatment.
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A Tacoma humanitarian has gathered a dozen restaurants to support students facing hunger this summer with his 'All Youth Can Eat' campaign, which allows them to eat for free.
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After the U.S. Supreme Court decision that local governments can punish people for sleeping in public spaces, what are the possible effects here in Washington?
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Multiple tribes have started to re-learn how to traditionally harvest camas flowers. The bulbs of these deep purple flowers were once a staple of indigenous diets in the Pacific Northwest.
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Researchers are working on a glossary of Spanish LGBTQ+ terms that libraries can use in their subject catalog. It’s called a “Homosaurus.”
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Auburn Officer Jeff Nelson’s case is the second murder trial of Washington police since a voter initiative removed the burden of proving an officer acted with malice.
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A new report from the ACLU and others details how failures in medical and mental health care in ICE detention facilities have led to otherwise preventable deaths.