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Hydrangeas are the showy stars of the late-summer garden.

Washington's insurance commissioner announced Wednesday that his office has approved a 10.7% rate increase for those residents who obtain insurance through the state's exchange. 

The party started an hour before the M/S Gabriella ferry slipped out of Stockholm harbor for its overnight voyage to Helsinki. At the outdoor bar on Deck 9, passengers had gathered for the 4 p.m. sailing. Talking excitedly over drinks, they reveled in the Nordic summer weather – bright sun, cool breeze, electric blue sky with cotton-ball clouds – while a DJ mixed bass-heavy Eurodance and vintage disco. Kids on holiday with their families dashed about.

The “Dave, Ken, and Molly” radio show, whose 30-year run was abruptly canceled by KXLY management in June, has been given a new platform by Nonstop Local’s KHQ and is set to return to air by late September, minus one of its original stars.

Rifle Paper Co. products are everywhere. Find party supplies at Target, bedding at Pottery Barn Kids, wallpaper at Anthropologie, and its eponymous stationery collections, well, all over. And they all bear the bright, playful patterns that have become the company’s calling card, each of which began with hand-painted art from Anna Bond, co-founder, CEO and chief creative officer.

A bat with rabies was found in Spokane County last week – the first known rabies case in the county this year.