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Joshua Aviles is more than 250 days into a record deployment aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln when Border Patrol arrested his father in Key West. The Navy has said the carrier is likely bound for Naval Base Kitsap.

BCI Pacific has filed plans for a 102-room Home2 Suites by Hilton at Poulsbo's College Marketplace, opening a public comment period that runs through Sept. 1 as the corridor also builds a $16 million recreation center.

A new Goat Fire triggered Level 3 evacuations in Kittitas County's Cle Elum Valley Sunday, adding a third active wildfire to a stretch of the Cascades already fighting the Three Queens and King fires.

Benjamin Charles Parker, 36, suspected in the deaths of five people and several animals near Forest Grove, Oregon, was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound behind a King County grocery store Sunday, pulling in agencies from both states.

Israel opened bidding this week on 1,234 homes in the West Bank's E1 corridor, the first construction step in a plan long called a "red line." At least 22 governments have condemned it; the Trump administration has not.

Two days after trade talks with Canada collapsed and 50% tariffs took effect, Trump broke his silence on Truth Social. Carney had already laid out, in unusually sharp terms, exactly what killed the deal — and Washington state's Patty Murray says Trump owes Canada an apology.

The Bremerton City Council voted 5-2 to raise its vehicle license fee from $20 to $40 for the first time since 2009, aiming to close a street and sidewalk repair funding gap that has been eating into the city's general fund.

The Colwash Fire grew from 8,000 to more than 34,700 acres overnight, forcing new Level 3 evacuations south of Prosser, closing Highway 22, and pulling state resources already stretched thin by other Washington wildfires.