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J.C. Smith (left) a safety and health consultant with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries, chats with colleague Dan Chan during a consultation at a MacDonald-Miller shop in Seattle in 2023.

WA keeps details of severe workplace injuries, deaths from public

Two workers from the same roofing company died in consecutive years after falling off a roof. Two employees at a Washington orchard were killed within a month of each other…
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Northwest
An east Vancouver traffic circle is a site of frequent crashes. This house was hit in 2023, and the property owner’s garage was hit eight months later.

Residents say speeding cars keep crashing into their east Vancouver homes because of a roundabout

Neighbors blame a decade-old roundabout in east Vancouver for sending speeding cars smashing into their homes.
Politics
“Canary grass as far as the eye can see,”  Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership spokesperson Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky said.

Are there salmon in Salmon Creek?

On a frigid, foggy February morning, a flock of birders stayed busy spying little treasures that were hidden in the sky, the trees, the shrubs and the ponds along the…
Outdoors

Clark County

A Prairie High esports team member looks at a monitor displaying Super Smash Bros. Ultimate on Wednesday during practice at Prairie High School.

With stigma fading and scholarships available, video games take off at Clark County schools as extracurricular activity

Prairie High School students went head-to-head — more like screen-to-screen — against Camas High School during an esports match Wednesday after school.

Business

Vehicles imported into the United States from Canada, such as the Chrysler Pacifica, assembled at the Stellantis Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario (pictured), will be slapped with a 25% tariff starting April 2 unless the Trump administration changes course.

Automakers scramble for options in negotiations with Trump as tariff deadline nears

Behind-the-scenes efforts by Detroit’s automakers to avert President Donald Trump’s vow to levy 25% tariffs on vehicles and parts from Canada and Mexico next month…

Northwest

Picketers block University Way at Northeast 42nd Street in the U District as striking Starbucks employees walked off the job and closed their store in a one-day strike in Seattle on March 11. (M.

WA bill aims to extend jobless benefits to workers on strike

Sandee Flores had never been on strike before. But in October 2024, she and her co-workers at the DoubleTree Seattle Airport walked off the job,…

Sports

Houston guard Emanuel Sharp (21) tries to shoot around Gonzaga guard Dusty Stromer (4) during the second half of the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Wichita, Kan.

No. 1 seed Houston holds off Gonzaga comeback, beats No. 8 seed Bulldogs 81-76 to reach Sweet 16

LJ Cryer matched a career high with 30 points, including two free throws with 14.2 seconds left, and No. 1 seed Houston held on to…

Politics

More than 20 years since she resettled in Tri-Cities as a refugee from Myanmar, Mimi Sein is now waiting for the arrival of her cousin, his wife and their two young daughters.

Former Myanmar refugee had secured family’s escape to Tri-Cities. Then Trump took office

Myint Myint “Mimi” Sein haMyint Myint “Mimi” Sein has been fighting for more than six years to get her cousin and his family out of…

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Hudson's Bay High School students gather in front of the Vancouver Public Schools administrative services building Jan. 6 while protesting the district's handing of sexual allegations against a Hudson's Bay teacher. A third party report indicated the district missed red flags in its handling of the case.

Hudson’s Bay administrators failed to spot red flags in handling of sexual allegations against Vancouver teacher, says report

Third-party investigations released Wednesday found Vancouver Public Schools administrators did not appropriately discipline former Hudson’s Bay High School English teacher Shadbreon Gatson or thoroughly investigate…

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Health

Walkers and joggers are silhouetted on a jetty Sept. 19, 2020, as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean in Bal Harbour, Fla.

Question social media health advice, experts say

In the corners of social media dominated by wellness content, influencers recommend an assortment of treatments and products to support weight loss, fight exhaustion or…

Life

Kelvin Harrison Jr., left, and Sadie Sink in “O’Dessa.” (Nikola Predovic/Searchlight Pictures/TNS)

Why Geremy Jasper had to wait 20 years to make dystopian rock opera ‘O’Dessa’

Filmmaker Geremy Jasper laughs a little when asked for the origin story of “O’Dessa,” a rock opera set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Its teen heroine…

Nation / World

From left, professional mason Cliff Douglas, and his assistants Martin Vargas, Jorge Vargas and Roberto Murillo, remove Batchelder and Grueby tiles to be preserved after a home was destroyed by the Eaton fire in Altadena, California, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (Allen J.

‘The only thing still left.’ Volunteers race to save Altadena’s vintage tiles from the bulldozers

The team of masons, covered in dust and sweat, had been working in the ruins of the Altadena house for hours when a shout echoed…

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Cheers & Jeers: Diverse food scene; REAL ID

Other papers say: U.S. sends clear message to Iran

Edwards: Revive ‘golden middle’

Other papers say: Measles must be taken seriously

The Cowlitz Tribe won't buy the Tri-Mountain Golf Course. What should happen next?

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