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YAKIMA – Proponents of a state initiative that called for stricter immigration rules failed again to collect enough signatures to make the November ballot.
ANACORTES, Wash. — When Carl Wedlund worked in the canneries, he pretty much did what his supervisor told him - he drove his boss around town, made coffee and cleaned bathrooms and storage areas.
TACOMA, Wash. — Megan Adams eyed a 12-foot-long surfboard and a long canoe-style paddle. She watched other stand-up paddle surfers easing over the glassy water just off Owen Beach at Point Defiance Park.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Carol Heyser of Deming received her high school diploma at a commencement ceremony June 19.
LENORE, Idaho — The only member older than the Willing Workers Club of Lenore itself is Bina Eberhardt, 101, of Lewiston, born the year before the club was founded in 1909.
FARRAGUT STATE PARK, Idaho — Sitting hunched under a leafy canopy in Farragut State Park recently, Pete Nikiforuk seems oblivious to the sun-drenched trees, his eyes glued to the road.
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho hospital wishes that a virus that arrived on a Michael Jackson-related spam e-mail would just beat it.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — A second daily Amtrak train will operate between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia, through the 2010 Winter Olympics.
SEATTLE — The sister of a Coyote Ridge prison inmate says he lost his left eye and remains in a coma after a beating at the prison in Connell.
BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers and local officials are moving ahead with efforts to get the Pentagon to house the military's next-generation tactical fighter jet at Mountain Home Air Force Base, a competition that pits the installation near the Snake River against others that covet the expensive planes.