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Body of missing former Disney Mouseketeer Dennis Day found in Oregon home

By David Matthews

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WSU regents approve 2.4% tuition hikes, athletic budget

Washington State University’s board of regents approved 2.4% tuition increases for most students on Friday.

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State proposes new overtime pay rules

OLYMPIA — Washington workers would have to receive significantly larger salaries to be exempt from overtime pay in…

Forest fires release less CO2 than previously thought, challenging some forest management practices, study says

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Forest fires release less CO2 than previously thought, challenging some forest management practices, study says

By Eli Francovich

Nation/World

Lawyers optimistic that climate change suit will go to trial

PORTLAND, Ore. — Attorneys for 21 young Americans who accuse the U.S. government of violating their constitutional right…

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Rep. Dan Newhouse splits with GOP on Dream Act, predicts Senate will reject it

Tri-City Herald

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Schoolgirl prods Oregon to require study of Holocaust in schools

PORTLAND, Ore. — Claire Sarnowski was in fourth grade in 2014 when she heard Holocaust survivor Alter Wiener…

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Nation’s most ambitious project to clean up nuclear weapons waste has stalled

By Ralph Vartabedian

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Saying it’s offensive, tribe wants the state to change this creek’s name

By Kie Relyea

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1 climber dead, 2 injured after rockfall on Mount Rainier’s Liberty Ridge

By Asia Fields

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New orca calf reported in southern resident J pod

SEATTLE — A new calf has been born to J pod, Canadian whale-watch companies were reporting Friday.

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Whale-ferry collision in Seattle’s Elliott Bay a byproduct of humpback revival

By Mike Lindblom

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Chinook bust on the Columbia

Spring returns worse than forecast on Northwest’s largest river