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Ice cream eating contest to benefit terminally ill children
SPOKANE, Wash. – An ice cream eating contest will taking place at Brick West Brewing Wednesday to benefit the Wishing Star Foundation. The event, which is open to the public and will start at 6 p.m., will help fund granting wishes to terminally ill children. “Ten local teams will...
Camp Ghormley safely evacuated during Retreat Fire
NACHES, Wash. - The Retreat Fire forced Camp Ghormley to evacuate leaving parents worried about their kids off at summer camp. Tuesday afternoon around 4 p.m., Camp Executive Director Joel Whitehead noticed smoke nearby and drove to the fire. Whitehead says U.S. Forest Services didn’t tell him to evacuate camp until 7 p.m. last night.
A former Woodway councilmember, gubernatorial candidate Bogen pledges to govern ‘from the middle for the middle’
You may never have heard of him – yet. He’s one of 28 gubernatorial candidates on Aug. 6 primary ballot, which will narrow the field to the top two vote getters. But judging from the latest Washington Public Disclosure Commission fundraising numbers he’s leading the pack of independents, coming in fifth overall behind the party-endorsed candidates Bob Ferguson, Dave Reichert, Mark Mullet and Semi Bird.
Oregon fire is the largest burning in the US. Thunderstorms and high winds are exacerbating it
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Powerful winds and hundreds of lightning strikes from thunderstorms rattled eastern Oregon and Idaho Wednesday afternoon, cutting power and stoking fires, including one in Oregon that is already the largest active blaze in the nation. The Durkee Fire, burning near the Oregon-Idaho border about 130...
WA Animal Response Team Successfully Rescues Great Dane in Need
Grab the tissues, after reading and watching this tremendous rescue, you'll need them. Late Saturday afternoon, July 20th, the WA State Animal Response Team received a call about a great dane named Luna who was in distress. The pup was on the Lake Serene Trail and unable to make it down.
Saving lives from extreme heat: Lessons from the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave
The heat dome that descended upon the Pacific Northwest in late June 2021 met a population radically unprepared for it. Almost two-thirds of households earning US$50,000 or less and 70% of rented houses in Washington’s King, Pierce and Snohomish counties had no air conditioning. In Spokane, nearly one-quarter of survey respondents didn’t have in-home air conditioning, and among those who did, 1 in 5 faced significant, often financial, barriers to using it.
Complaint against Let’s Go Washington could end up sent to AG’s office
It’s been a year since the filing of allegations that a political committee led by hedge fund manager Brian Heywood violated campaign finance laws last year in the course of gathering signatures for six initiatives, including three on the ballot in November. In the ensuing months, staff of the Public Disclosure Commission conducted interviews, gathered […] The post Complaint against Let’s Go Washington could end up sent to AG’s office appeared first on Washington State Standard.
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