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Washington's highest-in-nation minimum wage to go up to $16.66 an hour in 2025
OLYMPIA – Washington’s minimum wage, already the highest state-level minimum wage in the nation, will be going up 38 cents next year. That means minimum wage workers will get a raise, but employers will also pay more in 2025. The Washington State Department of Labor & Industries, or...
Kitsap schools follow Gig Harbor's lead with cell phone bans this fall
GIG HARBOR – Last month, Michele Suiter hopped on a Zoom call with school officials from Ellensburg to offer guidance on cell phone policies. As more districts across the state move towards banning the devices, a handful have turned to the Gig Harbor High principal for advice. Suiter and her staff ran something...
Thurston County sheriff discusses public safety tax, morale, staffing and more during ongoing town hall tour
Compared with the message he shared with residents in 2023, Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders reports a much better state of the Thurston County Sheriff's Office in 2024. In his first ...
Unclaimed remains of veteran to be transported from Lewis County to Tahoma National Cemetery, coroner says
The Lewis County Coroner’s Office will transport the unclaimed cremated remains of U.S. Army veteran Larry Givens to Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent on Friday, Nov. 1. Givens was
Prolific mail thief arrested after long history of crimes in SeaTac
A female suspect with a lengthy history of property crimes, including vehicle prowling, burglary, trespassing, and mail theft, was arrested early Thursday morning, Oct. 3, 2024, after being caught stealing mail near the 3400 block of South 144th Street (map below). Tukwila Police Officers responded to reports of a woman...
Washington’s inaugural ball canceled for 2025, as planning committee dissolves
In Washington, there have been inaugural balls at the state’s Capitol pretty much every four years since statehood. But the pandemic derailed the event in 2021 and the organizing committee has pulled out of the one scheduled for 2025, leaving the quadrennial tradition’s future uncertain. It was back in January 1957, 11 men and women […]
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