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• Beaver relocation effort garners bipartisan support

  March 1, 2012 in City on Page A5 OLYMPIA – Beavers making a nuisance of themselves in Western Washington could be relocated to areas in Eastern Washington that need their help in damming streams, but the furry critters … 6

• Landers: Sportsmen fee hikes loom in Olympia

  April 21, 2011 in Outdoors on Page B1 Many loose ends still need to be tied in Olympia, but as the Washington Legislature tries to wrap up, it’s at least clear that cougar hunting with hounds has been … 1

• Sides see eye to eye on cougar hunts

  March 31, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – These adolescent males can be trouble. They wander around, get into fights on hostile turf, bother people just trying to mind their own business. The experts don’t always …

• Bill lets 4 counties drop growth act

  March 8, 2011 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – The state’s environmental community is fighting a plan to allow four lightly populated Eastern Washington counties to opt out of the Growth Management Act. But in trying to … 13

• Costly study didn’t list Pine Lodge for closure

  February 7, 2010 in City on Page B1 OLYMPIA – Last year, the Legislature spent $500,000 for a consultant to tell Washington state which prisons should close and which should stay open. The consultant released his study in … 1

• Capitol lawn’s steel mole traps garner warning

  February 3, 2010 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – A state agency has used illegal traps to kill moles around the Capitol and the governor’s mansion for about a decade, ever since voters banned them with an … 3

• Agency chided over Capitol lawn’s illegal mole traps

  February 2, 2010 in City, Region A state agency has used illegal traps to kill moles around the Capitol and the governor’s mansion for about a decade, ever since voters banned them with an initiative. 3

• Olympia protesters call for reins on federal power

  January 14, 2010 in City The time has come for people who believe in states’ rights to move from protest to political action, a Spokane Valley legislator told a crowd on the steps of the … 6

• Our View: Report on DSHS in Colville warrants review

  March 25, 2009 in Opinion on Page A13 Stevens County Prosecutor Tim Rasmussen was asked by state Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, to look into repeated complaints about the child-protection workers in the Department of Social and Health Services … 9