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She is suspected of drunken driving.

Winds will pick up on Tuesday in Western Washington, gusting into the 60 mph range.

Threatened murrelets could find refuge on 730,000 acres of state Department of Natural Resources property.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — There's finally an answer to the question Bainbridge Island folks have been asking for the past four years: What's going to happen with the empty storefront at 240 Winslow Way?

BELFAIR — When Rob Drexler and partner Kris Klusman purchased the John L. Scott Real Estate franchise in Belfair in 2009, in the midst of the recession, almost everybody Drexler knew thought they were crazy.

The 76-year-old driver and his wife were hospitalized.

Rich Ham, who taught for 25 years in North Kitsap elementary schools, was always looking for ways to help his students learn. He died recnetly of cancer.

Meetings will be held throughout South Kitsap between now and Jan. 12 to explain the school district's bond proposal for a second high school and other improvements.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — On an August morning in 2014, a teenage protester climbed 70 feet into the branches of a Douglas fir tree on Bainbridge Island and hung sprawling banners below her perch. "Boycott Walgreens, KeyBank and mall sprawl," one banner read, in big white letters.

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