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Thurston County recently announced that its natural resources program manager, Bryan Benjamin, received the WaterNow Alliance’s 2026 Emerging Leader Award.
The honor recognizes water …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/10/26
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The Imagination Library of Washington (ILWA) recently announced a pair of new grants that will help restore Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which provides free, high-quality, age-appropriate …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/10/26
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A Thurston County judge on Friday upheld a one-sentence statement that will appear on ballots describing the budgetary consequences of an initiative to repeal Washington’s new income tax on high …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/7/26
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Providence Swedish is now enrolling Long COVID patients in a federally funded clinical research effort called the REVERSE-LC trial.
Long COVID is a condition where symptoms of COVID-19 persist …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/7/26
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A former Twin Cities radio personality and founder of the Eli Sports Network has been accused of sexually abusing three children in the 1980s, according to three civil lawsuits filed in January.
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By Jacob Farmer / jfarmer@chronline.com
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8/7/26
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In the shadow of Mount St. Helens this week, a group of middle school girls and ecological experts had private dance parties and studied volcanoes within view of the mountain's infamous crater.
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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8/7/26
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U.S. Sens. Patty Murray, D-Washington, vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, recently introduced new legislation to make tribal governments eligible to …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/7/26
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The Republicans are wasting no time getting into campaign mode for November.
Less than 48 hours after the polls closed on Washington state’s primary, the Speaker of the United States House of …
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By Paul Valencia / Clark County Today
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8/7/26
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Six children and a woman were hospitalized in a hit-and-run DUI crash on Interstate 5 near Napavine at about 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Washington State Patrol.
The at-fault driver, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/6/26
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Fresh off a losing bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, fellow Democrat Brent Hennrich says he won’t be supporting her in the general election.
Hennrich earned over 16% of the …
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8/5/26
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In one of the big surprises of the evening, state Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, was the only lawmaker across the 19th and 20th legislative districts to be trailing in the initial results for the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/5/26
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The Old Trails Fire, part of a fast-moving cluster of blazes now known as the Spokane Complex, had burned more than 3,500 acres since erupting west of Spokane on the afternoon of Aug. 1, driving …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/5/26
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The leader of a drug trafficking ring that brought drugs to western Washington was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 130 months in prison, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/5/26
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The Thurston County Auditor’s Office Election Division is seeking “against” committee members for the Nov. 3 general election, a news release from the auditor’s office announced.
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/5/26
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A 66-year-old resident of Brush Prairie in Southwest Washington was charged by criminal information with violating federal law by killing a bald eagle, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/5/26
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The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) on Tuesday announced its completion of the deadly force investigation that began following an officer-involved shooting on June 4 in Yelm.
The …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/5/26
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Washington was one of five states throughout the United States, including Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Virginia, to hold a primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 4, and initial results show …
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By Jacob Dimond / jake@yelmonline.com
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8/4/26
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The political favorites are leading the pack of nine candidates in the race to represent Washington’s Third Congressional District as preliminary primary election results were released on …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/4/26
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A 33-year-old Yelm man was hospitalized after his motorcycle struck a vehicle on state Route 7 in Pierce County on Monday afternoon.
Jevonn J. Wheeler was traveling south on state Route 7 …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/4/26
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Over 70 years after it became the official home of The Thurston County Fair, Heritage Hall was honored Saturday with a new monument denoting its historic significance.
Longtime Thurston …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/3/26
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