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$31M in grants to fund infrastructure

The state Department of Commerce has opened applications for the 2026 Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP). CHIP provides local governments with financial support for infrastructure associated with development projects.

Dickson winning the battle of Lexington and Concord

Dickson has begun the demo at the doomed Lexington-Concord apartments in Belltown. Yesterday morning, the DJC visited the corner at 2402 Second Ave., where the YWCA's 59-unit affordable housing complex — now over a century old — is being pulled apart.

Lynnwood receives Top Performing Wastewater Treatment Plant award

The award’s criteria are based on meeting specific permit conditions, including regularly meeting numeric effluent limits, monitoring water quality as required and submitting reports on time.

Beaches closed and sandbags filled as Tropical Storm Bertha approaches the Gulf Coast

Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches before Tropical Storm Bertha brings flooding and wind from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.

2,000 volunteers join a painstaking effort to restore massive skeleton of prehistoric predator

More than 2,000 volunteers are helping Polish scientists restore a Mastodonsaurus skeleton.

Eugenio Suárez haunts old team as Reds halt Seattle Mariners’ win streak

Former Mariner Eugenio Suárez homered and added a spectacular defensive play to rob Randy Arozarena of extra bases as Seattle fell to the Reds 4-2 at T-Mobile Park.

Baby dies in car fire near Tumwater; sibling saves toddler

A 5-month-old baby died in a car fire Tuesday in Thurston County. Another young child was rescued by a sibling.

After an extremely rare pregnancy, an Australian woman gives birth to identical quadruplet girls

An Australian woman has given birth to identical quadruplet girls after a pregnancy doctors described as incredibly rare.

WA man, sent soaring by Yellowstone bison, grateful he didn’t get gored

The community leader from Kendall suffered a fractured femur, along with serious hip and leg trauma.

Photos: Reds at Mariners

WA wildfire survivors return home to ‘black all the way around you’

One resident used a gas-powered rototiller to protect his home as the Kaiser Canyon wildfire erupted to 110 square miles. The fire remains only 1% contained.

5th person dies in Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City

A fifth person has died in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in New York City.