Since the pandemic, lumber prices have soared and in some cases by nearly 400-percent. The supply side has impacted prices and ripples across the construction industry.
Sex offender registrations in Pierce County
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 2 hrs ago Stacia Glenn, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
May 29 The following convicted sex offenders recently registered to live in Pierce County.
Each is categorized as a Level 3 sex offender those considered most likely to commit similar crimes. None is wanted by law enforcement officers at this time.
All convicted sex offenders registered to live in Tacoma and Pierce County are listed on the Pierce County Sheriff s Department s website at piercesheriff.org.
Victor Newman
Where registered to live: 9000 block of East Sherwood Street, Tacoma.
Criminal history: Convicted in 2004 of voyeurism and possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct in King County for filming up the skirt of an 11-year-old girl.
Sunny Memorial Day weekend expected for Western Washington
The risk of downed power lines is increased during wind advisories. (City of Kent)
A Thursday wind advisory has now expired, with warm, sunny weather in the forecast for Memorial Day weekend.
Tukwila’s Showalter Middle School shut down Thursday afternoon because of a power outage, though equipment failure is the suspected cause. King County closed the COVID-19 testing site at Enumclaw Middle School due to high winds.
Areas from Everett and north to Whidbey Island were the breeziest locations on Thursday, according to the NWS. Measured gusts of: 50 mph on Camano Island, 42 mph on Lopez Island, 45 mph at Paine Field Everett, 44 mph at Bellingham airport, and 40 mph at JBLM.
Orphaned bear cubs in Washington get freedom, ‘a second shot at life’ By Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times
Published: May 24, 2021, 6:05am
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4 Photos This male black bear heads into the woods on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 off a logging road in Grays Harbor County. The cub was one of two released back into the wild after spending the past 15 months at the PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood, where their caretakers took extra care not to expose them to humans. (Amanda Snyder/The Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery
SOUTH OF OLYMPIC NATIONAL FOREST Reacting to the auditory assault of clanging metal, barking dogs, shouts and rifle blasts, a 168-pound American black bear shot out of the open end of a culvert trap and hightailed it into the woods off a logging road in Grays Harbor County.