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Sound Transit’s $34B gap plan is near. Will Tacoma light rail stay on track?

The Sound Transit Board could finalize a cost-cutting plan in late May that addresses a $34 billion funding gap in a voter-approved measure expanding the regional transit system, according to two board members. Sound Transit 3 (ST3), the package passed in 2016, includes a megaproject to extend light rail to Tacoma, known as the Tacoma Dome Link Extension. Although the board contemplated a ...
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Data centers replace fruit orchards in changing Central WA

MALAGA, Chelan County — Sabey, a Tukwila-based company, bought about 80 acres next to the Malaga fire station last year, where a cherry orchard was torn out for the company’s planned data center campus. Dan Richmond, a longtime Malaga orchardist, said his friends who used to harvest fruit or prune trees there had to find new jobs. “That's the part that I felt bad about,” Richmond said. “Of ...
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Then and Now: Prince Hall Masonic Temple

The two-story building at 2702 E. Fifth Ave. in Spokane was built in 1909 and served as a store and a pharmacy. When the last store closed in 1952, the building was briefly used as a church.
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Microsoft AI demands more power. Can a WA fusion company supply it?

MALAGA, Chelan County — On the banks of the Columbia River, two companies are rushing to build two technologies they say will power the future. Microsoft is constructing a sprawling data center campus that could cover more than 24 football fields, part of the company’s rapid build-out in a global arms race to control artificial intelligence. But this one site could demand as much electricity ...
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Nearly half of WA sheriffs face misconduct complaints, according to key agency

Nearly half of the elected sheriffs in Washington state face allegations of misconduct lodged by the public with the state’s Criminal Justice Training Commission, which has the authority to suspend or revoke a cop’s certification as a law enforcement officer. Under a new law set to take effect at the end of April, an elected sheriff’s office will be declared vacant if the licensing body strips ...
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