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A poster with information on slain Assistant United States Attorney Thomas Wales is displayed during a news conference giving an update on the unsolved 2001 slaying of Wales, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018, in Seattle. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein joined other officials to discuss the killing of Wales, an 18-year veteran of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle who was shot as he worked in the basement of his home on Oct. 11, 2001. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Marysville woman pleads guilty to obstructing a murder probe

The case involves the unsolved killing of Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Wales in Seattle in 2001.

A person holds their hand up to a window inside the Pierce County Jail during a protest against police brutality passing by outside the jail, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, in downtown Tacoma, Wash., south of Seattle. The protest came a day after at least two people were injured when a Tacoma Police officer responding to a report of a street race drove his car through a crowd of pedestrians that had gathered around him. Several people were knocked to the ground and at least one person was run over. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Dozens test positive for COVID-19 at Pierce County Jail

The outbreak means only people arrested on suspicion of violent crimes will be booked.

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Activists try to overturn Oregon’s newest election laws

Laws aimed at expanding voter access in the state are under fire from a conservative group.

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Benton County Jail offers inmates ramen noodles for vaccines

By Monday, the jail will have given out 900 packets of noodle soup to 90 prisoners.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee puts on a mask after speaking at a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee announced that Washington state is expanding its vaccine mandate to include all public, charter and private school teachers and staff, as well as those working at the state's colleges and universities. The governor also expanded the statewide indoor mask mandate in place for non-vaccinated individuals to include those who are vaccinated. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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Washington state’s mask mandate went into effect Monday

The governor’s office is working with state partners to reestablish an enforcement system.

Business

Whidbey Island tourism spikes in 2021

Daily visitors to Island County boomed this year despite COVID, with economic impact far-reaching.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, right, speaks at a news conference, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee announced that Washington state is expanding its vaccine mandate to include all public, charter and private school teachers and staff, as well as those working at the state's colleges and universities. The governor also expanded the statewide indoor mask mandate in place for non-vaccinated individuals to include those who are vaccinated. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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State employee union raps Inslee over vaccine mandates

A 45,000-member union is criticizing Gov. Inslee’s implementation of a broad COVID vaccine mandate.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture, Oregon Department of Agriculture, and USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service found the first Asian giant hornet nest of 2021. The nest was in a rural area east of Blaine. (USDA)

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First Asian giant hornet nest discovered near Blaine

Crews found the nest after they followed a hornet that was equipped with a tracking device.

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Lewis County man accused of killing goat

A 67-year-old Winlock man is accused of killing a goat and violating a protection order.

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Klickitat Co. sheriff with COVID-19 still fighting mandates

The 76-year-old’s diagnosis led to a five-day hospital stint. He’s back home now and using oxygen.

Providence employees look at anti-vaccine mandate protestors as they cross the street outside of Providence Regional Medical Center Everett on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

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Inslee reinstates indoor mask rule, whether vaxxed or not

Jay Inslee also ordered employees of public schools, colleges and child care centers to get vaccinated.

A Value Village store is seen Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, in Edmonds, Wash. The company that operates 300 Value Village, Savers and other thrift stores in the U.S., Canada and Australia is suing Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, saying his office has violated its rights by demanding $3.2 million to settle a three-year investigation. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Appeals court overturns ruling against Value Village

A 2019 ruling found the thrift chain misled customers by deceptively marketing itself as a charity.

Thousands of live sand dollars are washing ashore on the south end of Seaside Beach. (Seaside Aquarium video screen shot)

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Thousands of live sand dollars wash up on Oregon coast

The creatures can only live a few minutes out of the ocean.

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Searchers find body of missing hiker in North Cascades

Rachel Lakoduk, 28, of Moses Lake went missing in 2019. Her remains were found last weekend.

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Inslee commutes more drug possession convictions

The Blake decision made thousands of people eligible to get their records cleared.

8/10/2021 (Photo/Katie Cotterill) Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

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Help name the new octopus at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

The aquarium in Tacoma has a new resident: a female giant Pacific octopus. And she needs a name.

FILE - In this May 4, 2020, file photo, an Asian giant hornet from Japan is held on a pin by Sven Spichiger, an entomologist with the Washington state Dept. of Agriculture in Olympia, Wash. Scientists in the U.S. and Canada are opening new fronts in the war against the so-called murder hornets as the giant insects begin establishing nests this spring. The scientists said Wednesday, March 17, 2021, the battle to prevent the apex predators from establishing a foothold in North America is being fought mostly in Whatcom County, Washington and the nearby Fraser Valley of British Columbia, where the hornets have been spotted in recent years. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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First Whatcom ‘murder hornet’ tracker found — without the hornet

Last week, two of the Vespa mandarinia were caught and tagged, but still not found.

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Over 200 coronavirus cases linked to Gorge music festival

More than 25,000 fans packed the Gorge for the 3-day country music festival July 30 to Aug. 1.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal talks to the media about the decision to close schools in three counties in response to COVID-19, Thursday, March 12, 2020, in Olympia, Wash. All public and private K-12 schools in King, Pierce and Snohomish counties will be closed for six weeks, and Gov. Jay Inslee said there could be closures in more counties soon. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

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Reykdal presses his case for mandatory teacher vaccinations

Otherwise, the state superintendent warned, schools could close and students might need to be quarantined.

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WSU to end ‘personal or philosophical’ vaccine exemptions

Once implemented, students will have up to 45 days get a shot or request a new exemption.