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Conspirational thinking creeps into Olympic Peninsula politics
Last year, right wing conspiracy theories from QAnon were injected into the U.S. Presidential race. This year conspiratorial thinking is creeping into small town races around the country, including several on the northern Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. A QAnon apologist named Donnie Hall recruits and trains candidates through a group he co-founded called the Independent Advisory Association.
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Tacoma detention center gets federal warning after chemicals impact detainee health
Since the start of the pandemic, immigrants and staff at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma have been trying to limit the spread of Covid-19 with meticulous cleaning. But those industrial cleaning products have led to complaints of headaches and sore throats among detainees. Now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has stepped in.
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Why King County's home values shot up even further amid a pandemic
If you’re a homeowner in King County, get ready for sticker shock. Property assessments are arriving in the mail, and residential values have risen in many areas. The pandemic played a role.
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Jenny Durkan on the decision to leave East Precinct, and those missing texts
Homelessness, economic recovery, policing – these issues don’t wait for an election. They’re being addressed – or not, depending on your perspective – in real time.
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Seismic research ship goes boom-boom to seek answers at origin of the next Big One
Earthquake researchers are eager to dig into a trove of new data about the offshore Cascadia fault zone. The valuable new imaging of the geology off the Oregon, Washington and British Columbia coasts comes from a specialized research ship. The National Science Foundation seismic survey ship Marcus Langseth zigged and zagged over the full length of the undersea Cascadia Subduction Zone -- from the Oregon-California border north to Vancouver Island.
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How well do you know Washington’s mask rules?
KUOW's Kate Walters flips the script on local Morning Edition host Angela King and quizzes her about what the state's rules are - at least for now.
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We know who made the call to leave Seattle Police’s East Precinct last summer, finally
Recall June 2020. George Floyd has been murdered by police in Minneapolis, and the video of his death is so shocking that people across the nation pour onto the streets in protest. In Seattle, demonstrators face off with police at their outpost in the freewheeling Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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Two Seattle police officers trespassed at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, oversight office finds
An Office of Police Accountability investigation into six Seattle Police officers who attended President Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” rally found that two officers broke the law and violated police policy when they trespassed outside the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. A third officer may have also trespassed, based on a review of maps outlining restricted areas and officer interviews, but the police accountability office could not meet its burden of proof.
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This hiker survived 9 days with a can of SpaghettiOs. Here's his story
What's it like to survive nine days in the wilderness? Andrew Devers knows. What was supposed to be a breezy day hike turned into a rescue mission when Devers disappeared while hiking near the Pratt River Trail in North Bend.
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Extreme heat cooks shellfish alive on Puget Sound beaches
Tribes and scientists report devastation of marine life on the shorelines of Washington and British Columbia.
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Pentagon cancels Microsoft's massive JEDI contract
‘$10 billion is obviously a huge number. It was a massive project to migrate the Pentagon's computing infrastructure and data to the cloud.’
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Independence Day was (mostly) free from pandemic restrictions in the NW
Washingtonians got to enjoy some new freedoms over the Fourth of July holiday.