Eilis O'Neill
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Snoqualmie Tribe buys land around Snoqualmie Falls for $125M
The Snoqualmie Tribe has purchased Snoqualmie Falls and the surrounding land and nearby hotel for $125 million.
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Flavored vaping banned for four months in Washington state
The Wash. state Board of Health voted Wednesday afternoon to temporarily ban flavored vaping products, including flavored THC. The decision comes after more than a thousand people have come down with a vaping-related lung illness.
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Washington state bans flavored vaping products
“Shame, shame, shame,” came the chant from dozens and dozens of protesters at the state Health Board’s meeting Wednesday in SeaTac.
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How to rid the woods of racism
For many people, getting outside can be a chance to relax and unwind. For people of color, it can also mean having to deal with racism. People of color and their allies gathered outside Seattle last weekend at a festival aimed at changing that.
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Seeking: Wolves marked for death in Washington state
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is trying to kill one to two of the nine wolves in the Grouse Flats pack, in the southeast corner of the state.
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Thousands gather in Seattle to demand government action on fossil fuels, climate change.
Thousands of activists walked out of school and work on Friday to gather at Cal Anderson Park and the Amazon Spheres and march to Seattle City Hall.
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'Dead tree after dead tree.' The case of Washington's dying foliage
When Jim and Judy Davis moved to their property in Granite Falls two and a half years ago, the trees in their 25-acre forest were healthy. Then the hemlocks started to turn brown.
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Proposed golf course near Rainier drives controversy
A decades-old plan to build a resort 11 miles from Mount Rainier’s Longmire entrance has resurfaced. The proposed resort would include a hotel, a conference center and a golf course.
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A baby clam garden by the sea: A Northwest delicacy returns
Native clams are harder to find these days along the Washington coast. To bring them back, the Swinomish Tribe of northwest Washington is reviving an ancient tradition: clam gardens. They’re rock walls designed to make good habitat for clams, and they might also help protect the tribe from climate change.
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King County has lost nearly $1M in federal funding for homeless services
King County has lost nearly a million dollars in federal funding for homelessness services. The funding came from a FEMA program.