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The audience rush to the stage to enjoys samples after Chefs Laurel Khan (left), Ed Lintott and Crystal Robinson prepared several mushroom recipes using a variety of oils from the Olympia Olive Oil and Vinegars company during their Sunday cooking demonstration at the 2014 Mushroom Festival in the Regional Athletic Complex. The trio represented the Human Touch Chefs Group, a non-profit organization focused on educating the public on food sustainability, healthy eating options and the return to the traditional, at-home family dining experience.

Mushroom festival welcomes visitors with sunny skies, good eats on final day

The final day of the Pacific Northwest Mushroom Festival, now in its seventh year, welcomed visitors with sunny skies and the irresistible aroma of mushrooms being cooked up in delicious ways.

Government

PEBB ready to set health premium rates that don’t climb a lot for state workers in 2015

The Public Employees Benefits Board must approve rates that state workers will pay next year for health coverage. State taxpayers are picking up 85 percent of premiums, leaving 15 percent for staffers. 2 hours ago

Sports

Seattle safety Earl Thomas, left, and cornerback Richard Sherman, right, talk with receiver Bryan Walters during Seahawks training camp Saturday at the VMAC in Renton. Thomas and Sherman will have to deal with a higher emphasis on defensive holding and illegal contact.

Rule emphasis could limit Seahawks

NFL referees have been directed to be more aware of illegal contact and defensive holding

Business

FILE - This Sept. 4, 2011, file photo shows the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, as seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. The federal government has come up with a final version of a rule meant to cut haze-causing emissions from the largest coal-fired power plant in the West. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision Monday, July 28, 2014, reflects a compromise by tribal and federal officials, environmental groups and the owners of the Navajo Generating Station, which is on track to cease operations in 2044.

West's largest coal-fired plant on track to close

The largest coal-fired power plant in the West will produce one-third less energy by 2020 and is on track to cease operations in 2044 under a proposal that the federal government adopted to cut haze-causing emissions of nitrogen oxide at places like... 5 minutes ago

Opinion

Is it the Fish, or the Water?

Gov. Jay Inslee has announced his intention to increase the official estimate for how much fish we can safely eat in Washington, from 6.3 grams per day (about the size of a Ritz cracker) to 175 grams per day (about 6 ounces). This decision about ...

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Nation & World

This booking photo released by the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office shows Nathaniel E. Kibby, 34, of Gorham, N.H., arrested Monday, July 28, 2014 and charged with one count of felony kidnapping of Abigail Hernandez, who went missing in Conway, N.H., in October 2013, and returned home last week. Kibby will be arraigned Tuesday in district court in Conway, N.H.

Man charged in teen's 9-month disappearance

A 34-year-old man was arrested and charged Monday with kidnapping a New Hampshire teenage girl who returned home last week after vanishing nine months ago. 5 minutes ago