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Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Olympia, Washington – Two small earthquakes struck the region south of Seattle on Friday, rattling parts of southwest Washington and nearby Oregon but causing no reported damage or injuries. According to...

Dozens of people packed a courtroom in Kent wearing green, many of them in shirts printed with: “Live like Nick.”. They were there to remember Nick Valison and witness the sentencing of his killer. Ravensdale father killed in September. Valison, a 53-year-old father of two, was walking his dog...

Hunting for amazing flea markets in Washington where your dollars stretch further?. These 8 massive markets offer incredible bargains and treasure-filled adventures!. 1. Pasco Flea Market (Pasco) This place is a bargain hunter’s paradise that goes on forever!. The Pasco Flea Market stretches out like a small city of...

A 25-year-old man was arrested Monday night for punching a Sound Transit bus driver in downtown Seattle.

According to an advisory, floodwaters can displace rodents, sweeping them through sewer systems and occasionally into homes.

As rainfall inundated the Pacific Northwest this month, swelling the region’s rivers to record levels, the Desimone levee seemed destined to fail. Severe flooding in 2020 had damaged the 2.2-mile earthen barrier near Tukwila. Muddy waters from the Green River bubbled up on the opposite side and seeped into nearby...

At 3:56 AM Friday Dec. 19, 3rd and 1st watch officers responded to the 2400 block of Harbor Av SW to the report of a robbery in progress at a convenience store, where the clerk was in a physical fight with the suspect. The suspect had taken alcohol from the...

Two men have been charged for allegedly pretending to be FBI agents, kidnapping two women and stealing $13,000 during a heist just outside Tacoma in August. Brian Edward Butler, 53, and Christopher Andrew Colt Summers, 46, face charges of first-degree robbery and burglary, second-degree criminal impersonation and two...

A Washington State Patrol trooper was killed Friday evening while responding to a collision in Tacoma, according to a statement from the agency. Trooper Tara-Marysa Guting, 29, died on duty. “Trooper Guting was standing outside of her patrol car investigating a two-vehicle collision when she was struck just before...

If you live in Seattle and you’re a millennial and most of your friends are millennials, congratulations: you’ve helped your city reach the top of a nationwide ranking. According to data collected about the population share of different generations in the country’s largest cities, Seattle has the largest percentage...