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Holiday Lights

Take a tour of local holiday light displays in our online holiday lights database.

South Sound

Bikes carry kegs, kids, truck mattresses, too

One fisherman uses a bike to deliver hundreds of pounds of salmon to local markets. A mom who regularly shuttles her two kids around town once tried to haul a twin mattress home. And some companies are using the bikes to deliver beer kegs or pick...

Government

Tempers flare at Inslee's climate workgroup meeting

Tempers flared at Friday’s meeting of Gov. Jay Inslee’s climate workgroup as Republican lawmakers questioned whether Washington should be endorsing carbon-reduction actions without knowing how much they cost taxpayers or kill jobs.

Sports

Tumwater captains (from left) Trevor Davis, Christian Cummings, Jayden Croft and Gabe Gleizes take the field for the pre-game coin toss for the 2A football state championship game in the TacomaDome on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Lynden defeated Tumwater, 38-28, for the Lions' third-straight state championship.

Lynden defeats Tumwater 38-28 for 2A state title

Jaremy Martin ran for two touchdowns to help Lynden beat Tumwater 38-28 on Saturday for its third consecutive 2A state title.

Business

Teddy Rayford, left, of Puyallup invested his retirement savings of $500,000 to buy and open Pops Liquor Store at 2805 Sixth Ave. in Tacoma for his daughter Michelle Tate, who waits to ring up a customer while employee Steven Knight, right, works on a new wall partition recently.

Owners of former state liquor stores struggle to stay in business

More than 60 percent of those who bought former state stores are out of business, and most of the remainder are headed in that direction, according to the Washington Liquor Store Association.

Opinion

Thurston County reveals priorities in 2014 budget

If you want to know the values of an organization in either the public or private sector, don’t look at their mission statement. Look at how they spend their money.

Living & Entertainment

For these two visitors from the United Kingdom, a ride in an H2OGO feels like being in a washing machine on agitate.

Zip up for New Zealand’s zaniest adventure

Roll, twist and splash in a human-size hamster ball ROTORUA, New Zealand

Nation & World

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2013 file photo, Homeland Security Secretary nominee Jeh Johnson testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on his nomination. Democrats begin a drive this week to muscle a half dozen of President Barrack Obama's Republican-opposed nominees through the Senate after clamping shackles on traditional minority party rights in last month's power play against the GOP. Republicans, however, still have some tools for grinding the Senate's work to an excruciatingly slow crawl.

Senate Dems push Obama nominees, GOP bides time

Fresh from shackling the traditional blocking ability of the Senate's minority party, Democrats are ready to muscle through President Barack Obama's nominees for pivotal judgeships and other top jobs. 34 minutes ago

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