5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1183+ words) Driving around Lewis County, I often wonder about the people behind the names of the roads I’m traveling, and thanks to my friend Maeve Mitchell, I’ve learned about the family behind the name of Tucker Road north of Toledo. Maeve,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (433+ words) Max Vogt, the owner and designated broker of Centralia’s Windermere Real Estate office, wants you to thank a realtor. “If you enjoy the right to purchase, own and sell real estate in this country with reasonable taxation and regulation, you…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (748+ words) Many Seattle residents have kept the pandemic's ultimate perk: trading the grueling I-5 crawl for a morning commute to the living room. The most recent census data, from 2024, shows that about one-quarter of the city's employed residents now work from home....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (817+ words) With contract negotiations nearing a critical deadline, hundreds of Washington state workers walked off the job for an hour Monday to highlight demands for wage hikes in their next two-year deal. Roughly 100 employees from an array of agencies lined Capitol…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (231+ words) Washington State Poet Laureate Derek Sheffield will appear Sept. 11 at the Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Regional Library for “An Hour With the State Poet Laureate.” The free event starts at 5 p.m. in the library’s large meeting room. Sheffield will…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (758+ words) OLYMPIA — Lawsuits are costing local and state taxpayers in Washington too much, some lawmakers say. Months after a proposal to change how state and local governments respond to claims of misconduct stalled, an advisory committee has spent much of the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (612+ words) Oregon used to be something of a bargain. The state was a rare find on the West Coast, a place where homes were cheap by national standards, household products like groceries were relatively inexpensive and utility rates were the envy…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1127+ words) On Monday, the 10,000 residents of Independence, Oregon, woke up to all five of their city parks barricaded by chain link fences, with signs saying the parks were closed “due to insufficient funding.” Gone were the music and movies in the…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1081+ words) After months of hype and mere hours in front of the jury, California's blockbuster suit against Meta ended on Wednesday with a sweeping $17-billion settlement and 130 pages of promised changes to the platforms. Witnesses at the blink-and-you-miss-it Oakland trial echoed…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1063+ words) As more states seek ways to limit immigration enforcement, a Stateline analysis shows one tactic has had an effect: making it more difficult for local law enforcement to hand over people they are holding in city or county jails to…...