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More than 74,000 people, mostly on Whidbey, are at risk of annoyance, sleep disturbance, hindered childhood learning and hearing impairment, research finds — but the Navy League questions the data.
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Musician and local business owner Keegan Harshman produces the all-ages music and arts festival Little BIG Fest. He works 11 months out of the year to organize the three day affair on Whidbey Island, Washington.
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U.S. investigators have confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane crash that killed 10 people off an island in Washington state last year.
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Federal authorities have issued a warning about a part of the tail in the type of seaplane that crashed in Washington state’s Puget Sound last month, killing 10 people. The Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency airworthiness directive concerning Otter seaplanes.
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A civil rights activist from Spokane, Washington, a business owner and the founder of a winery and his family were among the 10 people killed when a floatplane crashed in the waters of Puget Sound. The U.S. Coast Guard released the names of the crash victims early Tuesday. The body of one of the dead was recovered by a good Samaritan after Sunday's crash. The other nine remain missing.
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Staff at the Whidbey Camano Land Trust in Washington knew they had to act quickly when a beachfront property south of Coupeville came on the market last December. The property is home to one of the oldest farms on Whidbey Island, features a large forest and long stretch of beach. According to the land trust the site was at risk of being sold and developed into 22 high-end homes.
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Every spring, gray whales migrate up the West Coast on a 12,000-mile round-trip from Mexico to the Alaskan Arctic. A small group has begun detouring to Puget Sound every year in what seems to be a survival strategy.
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As children, we all have big dreams of what we’ll do with our lives, maybe become a famous painter or an astronaut. But many of us wind up pursuing…
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The type of wind and rainstorm blowing into western Washington has done some amazing damage in the past. Weather expert Cliff Mass is not forecasting…
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The first new car ferry in Washington State in more than a decade enters scheduled service in Port Townsend this morning. The Chetzemoka (pronounced…