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• Washington state to kill more wolves to protect livestock

  20-07-2017 21:55
  
  The state will start killing wolves this week to protect ranchers’ cattle
  
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• Downtown Seattle’s construction boom surges to new record, with no end in sight

  20-07-2017 21:31
  
  Just when it looked like the construction surge couldn’t get any busier, developers keep building more apartments and offices.
  
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• A bigger canvas for Seattle’s Art of the Table

  20-07-2017 19:52
  
  In 2008, Art of the Table earned three stars. A decade in, it’s now three times as big. Is it still as subtle, surprising and overall stunning?
  
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• Crews fight fire at Fircrest School in Shoreline

  20-07-2017 19:50
  
  The fire started in a dryer vent at the 88-acre campus and spread to several buildings. The Shoreline school provides housing and services to about 200 people with disabilities.
  
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• Crews battle blaze at Fircrest School residential center in Shoreline

  20-07-2017 19:50
  
  The fire started in a dryer vent at the 88-acre campus and spread to several buildings. The Shoreline school provides housing and services to about 200 people with disabilities.
  
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• Crews battle blaze at Fircrest School rehabilitation center in Shoreline

  20-07-2017 19:50
  
  The fire started at the center's laundry facility.
  
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• Maryland plans lawsuit against EPA under Clean Air Act

  20-07-2017 19:28
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration has announced plans to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to take required action under the Clean Air Act. Department of the Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles notified the agency of the state’s plans in a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday. Grumbles […]
  
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• UW must follow city’s landmarks law, Washington state Supreme Court rules

  20-07-2017 18:57
  
  In a unanimous decision by the state’s highest court, the University of Washington lost its bid to declare itself free of Seattle’s landmarks-preservation law.
  
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• Illicit skatepark on Green Lake’s Duck Island: Cops called on bowl built in bird habitat

  20-07-2017 18:06
  
  Seattle Parks warns people to not even “set foot on” Green Lake’s Duck Island, considered by the city a wildlife habitat, where skateboarders have built a concrete skate bowl.
  
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• Researchers in Cambodia find nest of rare riverine bird

  20-07-2017 17:25
  
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Wildlife researchers in Cambodia have found a breeding location for the masked finfoot bird, one of the world’s most endangered, raising hopes of its continuing survival, the researchers announced Thursday. The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society said its scientists, along with conservationists from Cambodia’s Environment Ministry and residents along the […]
  
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• Here are the chances we break 34-day dry streak in Seattle

  20-07-2017 15:58
  
  Even a light sprinkle won't officially end our 30-plus-day streak of dry weather, officials said.
  
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• Auburn apartment fire kills father, 4-year-old son

  20-07-2017 15:33
  
  The man and 4-year-old boy were found dead in one of the Auburn apartments damaged by the fire.
  
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• Auburn apartment fire kills 27-year-old father, 4-year-old son

  20-07-2017 15:33
  
  The man and 4-year-old boy were found dead in one of the Auburn apartments damaged by the fire.
  
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• Who votes in Seattle mayoral elections? Older voters hold sway, study says

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  Voters 65 and older were a force in the 2013 Seattle mayoral election, compared to younger voters. This year’s primary is Aug. 1.
  
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• Seattle police are writing fewer jaywalking tickets, but high rate still issued to black pedestrians

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  “On the face of it, it appears to be a disparity,” said Seattle Police Assistant Chief Perry Tarrant. Overall, jaywalking tickets are way down in Seattle, but a disproportionate percentage are issued to black people.
  
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• Seattle Councilmember M. Lorena González faces cast of underdog challengers

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  In her bid for a second term on the Seattle City Council, incumbent M. Lorena González faces six challengers, including a QFC cashier, a homeless man, a South Seattle neighborhood activist, and a quixotic blogger who calls City Hall “a unicorn ranch.”
  
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• Northwest citizen scientists among the many helping track solar eclipse across U.S.

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  From Oregon to South Carolina, amateur astronomers will film the Aug. 21 solar eclipse while students — including two Seattle sisters — launch science balloons.
  
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• More than an arts tax: Seattle culture and politics leaders on the twists and turns of Prop. 1

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  King County Proposition 1 — a sales tax to provide more access to culture and science — has provoked some soul-searching among culture and political leaders about Washington’s regressive tax system.
  
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• Mike McGinn seeks second chance and political upset in his run for Seattle mayor

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  Inarguably, former Mayor Mike McGinn has the most relevant experience for the job. Yet he remains a City Hall outsider, with no endorsements from current or former mayors or City Council members. Will he find that wave of enthusiasm that put him over the top in 2009?
  
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• Forget Trump — the real meat this election is at the local level

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  Aug. 1 is our local primary election. And it’s the local stuff that really affects your daily life. So get out and vote.
  
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• Can ‘older and wiser’ Mike McGinn find the wave of enthusiasm to be elected Seattle mayor again?

  20-07-2017 15:00
  
  Inarguably, former Mayor Mike McGinn has the most relevant experience for the job. Yet he remains a City Hall outsider, with no endorsements from current or former mayors or City Council members. Will he find that wave of enthusiasm that put him over the top in 2009?
  
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• An African village’s monkey guardian draws researchers

  20-07-2017 14:53
  
  GBETITAPEA, Ivory Coast (AP) — An Ivory Coast village where monkeys are sacred has drawn the interest of primatologists who hope the approach can help protect animals elsewhere in West Africa. Daloa village appoints a monkey guardian who feeds them daily and buries them in a special part of the forest wrapped in a cotton […]
  
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• 10-year-old boy trips over 1.2M-year-old fossil in desert

  20-07-2017 14:03
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A boy’s misstep on a family hike in New Mexico has given the world a prehistoric wonder. Ten-year-old Jude Sparks was on a desert hike in Las Cruces in November when he tripped over what turned out to be the fossilized tusk of a 1.2 million-year-old elephant-like creature, called a […]
  
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• Student Voices: My family wanted me to go to college, but I felt guilty. Here’s why.

  20-07-2017 14:00
  
  While I got to sit in classes all day, my parents had to stand at work doing manual labor, writes UW graduate Christy Pham.
  
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• Montana student detained in China after dispute with cabbie

  20-07-2017 12:56
  
  BEIJING — Police in central China have arrested an American college student on charges of intentional injury following an altercation with a taxi driver, a family friend said Thursday. Guthrie McLean was formally arrested in the city of Zhengzhou earlier this week, said Tom Mitchell, Beijing bureau chief for the Financial Times who has known […]
  
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• American student detained in China after dispute with cabbie

  20-07-2017 12:56
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Police in central China have arrested an American college student on charges of intentional injury following an altercation with a taxi driver, according to the student’s mother and a family friend. Guthrie McLean was formally arrested in the city of Zhengzhou earlier this week, said Tom Mitchell, Beijing bureau chief for the […]
  
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• Lifestyle changes to stave off Alzheimer’s? Hints, no proof

  20-07-2017 10:19
  
  WASHINGTON — There are no proven ways to stave off Alzheimer’s, but a new report raises the prospect that avoiding nine key risks starting in childhood just might delay or even prevent about a third of dementia cases around the world. How? It has to do with lifestyle factors that may make the brain more […]
  
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• California farm region plagued by dirty air looks to Trump

  20-07-2017 10:14
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California’s vast San Joaquin Valley, the country’s most productive farming region, is engulfed by some of the nation’s dirtiest skies, forcing the state’s largest air district to spend more than $40 billion in the past quarter-century to enforce hundreds of stringent pollution rules. The investment has steadily driven down the number […]
  
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• Moon dust heading to auction after galactic court battle

  20-07-2017 06:15
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A bag containing traces of moon dust is heading to auction — surrounded by some fallout from a galactic court battle. The collection bag, used by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned mission to the moon in 1969, will be featured Thursday at a Sotheby’s auction in New York City […]
  
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• Brother of Burien deputy-shooting victim Tommy Le: ‘He wanted to make a positive change in the world”

  20-07-2017 05:47
  
  More than 150 people gathered in Seattle on Wednesday night to press authorities for answers in the fatal shooting of Tommy Le by a King County sheriff’s deputy on June 13.
  
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• Summer giggles in Seattle’s sizzling summer

  20-07-2017 03:31
  
  There is a chance of rain in Seattle on Thursday, but a sunny weekend is expected.
  
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• Summer giggles

  20-07-2017 03:31
  
  There is a chance of rain in Seattle on Thursday, but a sunny weekend is expected.
  
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• Q&A: As health-care debate rages, consumers ask, ‘What about me?’

  20-07-2017 00:55
  
  An explanation of what health-care debate in Congress means for consumers who count on individual marketplace health insurance for themselves and their loved ones.
  
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