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Published December 18th, 2011 - 12:37PM
PORT ANGELES – Some debris from the March tsunami in Japan has reached the West Coast.
Published December 13th, 2011 - 8:30PM
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency elevated the burn ban in Pierce County on Tuesday due to worsening air quality and cold weather.
Published December 13th, 2011 - 6:42AM
A record six blue whales were spotted off the Washington coast last week, the most known sightings of the species ever off the state’s coast and only the third confirmed sighting in the last 50 years, according to Cascadia Research.
Published December 12th, 2011 - 6:33AM
LONGVIEW — Officials and residents are concerned after a horse was shot and butchered near Silver Lake on Thursday and four others appear to have been abandoned there later in the week.
Published December 11th, 2011 - 5:00PM
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has issued a stage 1 burn ban for Pierce and Snohomish counties that took effect at 5 p.m. Sunday. The bans will remain in effect until further notice.
Published December 11th, 2011 - 8:20PM
Gig Harbor officials question why their city is included in Pierce County’s proposed taxing district to pay for flood control when the county’s flood management plan has no projects in the peninsula area.
Published December 9th, 2011 - 5:51PM
For the past four years, air quality officials have been using the carrot approach to bring Pierce County's wood stove polluters into compliance with national health standards.
Published December 6th, 2011 - 10:42AM
The air quality is getting worse in Pierce and Snohomish counties, prompting the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency to elevate a burn ban.
Published December 6th, 2011 - 7:51PM
Nearly a third of Washington's year-round state parks staffers are being notified this week that they likely will be laid off as a result of lagging sales of the new Discover Pass.
Published November 26th, 2011 - 3:54AM
WASHINGTON – The state is seeking federal help to get rid of toxic chemicals in Commencement Bay, which remains polluted after a $100 million cleanup effort.
Published November 23rd, 2011 - 12:05AM
MINNEAPOLIS — Sometime in the next few weeks, Paul Brazelton will move his family into a 1935 Tudor in south Minneapolis that has no furnace.
Published November 20th, 2011 - 5:45PM
Downtown Tacoma is set to become one of Washington’s larger urban settings to install rain gardens – rock and plant sculptures that filter stormwater – but designers are certain they won’t turn into sidewalk swamps.
Published November 20th, 2011 - 6:20PM
Tacoma is in the final stretch of updating its shorelines rules after five years of a grueling process that has included scores of public meetings and clashes pitting business interests against residents and recreationalists.
Published November 19th, 2011 - 12:05AM
Washington state Republican Rep. Doc Hastings renewed one of the oldest fights in Congress on Friday when he urged a House subcommittee to open up part of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for oil drilling.
Published November 14th, 2011 - 12:05AM
Washington state sometimes has too much of a good thing: power.
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