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EVERETT (AP) — The trial for a man charged with murder in the deaths of a rural Washington state couple has been pushed back to 2018. The Daily Herald reports John Reed's trial was rescheduled Monday after he exercised his right to hire new legal counsel...

OSO, Wash. (AP) — Part of a Washington state highway that closed Friday because of a slow-moving landslide has reopened after days of monitoring found no further movement. The Washington Department of Transportation said on its website that both directions of State Route 530 near the town of Oso reopened Wednesday afternoon...

OSO, Wash. (AP) — The Seattle Times reports that a stretch of road near a slow-moving landslide close to the site of a massive deadly slide northeast of Seattle in 2014 will be closed until Monday. On Friday, evacuations were recommended near the landslide after people noticed cracks on Highway 530 near Oso this week and called officials...

SEATTLE (AP) ” Attorneys for victims and family members in a deadly 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington, have accused state lawyers of orchestrating a fraud to hide the truth by deleting emails between defense expert witnesses. In a motion filed Tuesday, the attorneys say the state has spent over $3 million in taxpayer dollars developing the opinions of its expert team...

GOLD BAR, Wash. (AP) — Rain and cooler weather is helping firefighters in Western Washington fight two wildfires in rough terrain. But fire officials say it will take a lot more than a gentle rain to put out the two fires burning in Snohomish County...

OSO, Wash. (AP) — Fire crews are battling a roughly 55-acre wildfire that began Thursday evening several miles west of Oso. KIRO reports that firefighters from Snohomish County and the Department of Natural Resources are tackling the blaze off that began around 6 p...

SEATTLE (AP) — A new study from the University of Washington finds that the devastating Oso landslide in 2014 wasn't an outlier. The landslide wiped out neighborhood north of Seattle and left 43 people dead when it roared down a hillside above the north fork of the Stillaguamish River...

EVERETT (AP) — Snohomish County has received an additional $2 million from the federal government to help buy out properties devastated in the Oso landslide. Thursday's award from the Federal Emergency Management Agency adds to $5.9 million that FEMA already gave the county this year...

DARRINGTON (AP) -- The new sign for Steelhead Drive is fresh green with white lettering. But the road it announces is a mere stub of pavement, ending in a massive gray-and-brown scab of mud, clay and broken timber where a rural Washington state neighborhood once sat...