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Joint coastal resilience plans gaining ground

Grays Harbor County leading efforts to mitigate erosion in Ocean Shores and Westport

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Rural hospitals brace for ‘severe’ effects of Medicaid cuts

Harbor Regional Health Community Hospital and Willapa Harbor Hospital among rural hospitals facing precarious economic future

Washington State Parks
Surfers hit the waves at Grayland Beach State Park.

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State Parks: Budget cuts won’t undermine services this summer

Though Washington State Parks, like other parts of state government, did not make it through this year’s legislative…

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Fish passage work includes relocating aquatic life before working in the stream.

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Season 3 of fish passage construction on the Oly Pen

It may not be the show you’ve been waiting for the past several years (looking at you, Stranger…

Harbor Regional Health

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HRH earns top marks in community benefit

Healthcare think tank lauds Harbor Regional Health for health equity, patient outcomes and value of care

Michael Bruce

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Community fondly remembers Westport’s Michael Bruce

Hospital District 2 board chair and former mayor died last week

Cosmopolis Fire Department
The city of Cosmopolis Fire Department had a busy Fourth of July Holiday. They had five medical calls for service, two requiring ground transport by the city of Aberdeen Fire Department and one requiring air transport by LifeFlight Network.

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Aberdeen Fire Department responds to severe fireworks injuries

Six-year-old suffers injuries to eyes and face, man in his 20s injures hand

Grays Harbor Fire District 2
Grays Harbor Fire District 2 put down a small wildfire on Sunday.

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Wildfire put down on Satsop Road

The Port of Grays Harbor has received a $650,000 grant to renovate the Friends Landing boat launch. (Project photo)

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Grays Harbor County to receive $4.6M for outdoor projects

WA state Recreation and Conservation Funding Board awards more than $148M in grant money

TVW
Washington’s chief historian, John C. Hughes, on the set of TVW’s “Inside Olympia.”

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John C. Hughes closes the book on a storied career

Former The Daily World publisher retires as state’s chief historian

Washington Military Department
A tsunami escape route sign in downtown Ocean Shores.

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Cascadia tsunami threat may not be quite as bad as thought

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake…

Ocean Shores Fire Department
Fireworks set Ocean Shores dunes on fire on the Fourth of July.

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Dunes catch fire in Ocean Shores on the Fourth

About five acres burned as the fireworks take off on Friday evening

Washington state Department of Commerce
Shoalwater Bay Tribal Chairman Quintin Swanson (right) and Commerce Director Joe Nguyen shake hands after signing the MOU as Shoalwater Bay Tribal Council Secretary Lynn Clark and Shoalwater Bay Tribal Council Treasurer Joel Blake look on.

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Shoalwaters establish formal relations with state agency

The Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe entered into government-to-government relations with the Washington state Department of Commerce, joining a…