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A three-person crew was hiking Tuesday up the Queets River valley in Olympic National Park to check the status of an approximately 250-acre wildfire first discovered Monday.Click to Continue »

He has won four majors by age 26, and now the Northern Irishman has his sights set on a second US Open title at Chambers Bay…Click to Continue »

A report out this week from Bankrate.com says automobile insurance premiums will rise 89.75 percent with the addition of a teenage driver.Click to Continue »

He makes 21-year-old Masters champion Jordan Spieth look ancient. How different, how much of a golf prodigy is this Texas teenager? He – gasp! – doesn’t like video games.Click to Continue »

With a budget deal still elusive, thousands of state employees will start receiving notice next week that they may be temporarily laid off on July 1 unless Washington lawmakers reach…Click to Continue »

Spending the front nine inside the ropes with the 39-year-old winner of 14 majors and the 21-year-old Masters champion revealed opposite approaches.Click to Continue »

Federal biologists are studying an extensive toxic algae bloom that has prompted the closures of crab and other shellfish harvests in Washington, Oregon and California.Click to Continue »

The Joint Base Lewis-McChord Army command team that left for Afghanistan late last month has officially begun its one-year assignment advising local forces in Kandahar province.Click to Continue »

The news so far from the first-aid tents at the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay is that there is none. And officials want it to stay that way.Click to Continue »

A 24-year-old Auburn mother and her boyfriend have been charged with second-degree murder in her 3-year-old daughter's death.Click to Continue »