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A southwest Washington fire chief says a woman in an electric wheelchair fell off a trail and 15 feet down an embankment to a Camas lake bed but escaped with only minor injuries. The Columbian reports that Camas-Washougal Fire Chief Nick Swinhart says the water level in Lacamas Lake is currently very low to help with annual lake cleanup...

Officials from the Yakima County Health District are waiting on test results as three kids from Yakima are being treated for a respiratory illness at Seattle's Childrens' Hospital. The health district's Diane Bock says they hope to learn this week what is making the kids sick and if that sickness is linked to an illness that is hit kids in a dozen states...

A 9-year-old girl in Arizona last month accidentally killed her firing range instructor when she lost control of an Uzi submachine gun. The news has ignited a debate in the country about access to guns and the wisdom of state laws and parents who allow children to shoot firearms...

An alliance of Washington tribes says it will ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in and come up with new water-quality rules for the state. The Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission sent Gov. Jay Inslee a letter on Thursday expressing "dissatisfaction" with his proposal for updating the state's clean water rules that are partly tied to how much fish people eat... Read M

UPDATE: Jamaica's military says a private plane based in the United States with an unresponsive pilot has crashed in the ocean north of the Caribbean island.

The USDA has granted Zoetis a conditional license for the companies Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus vaccine.

A BB gun that triggered a lockdown last week at a Wenatchee medical center was meant to scare pigeons. The Wenatchee World reports that officers from local law enforcement agencies locked down the busy Confluence Health's Wenatchee Valley Medical Center after a witness reported seeing a man with a rifle butt extending from under his coat...

No arrests yet in the shooting death of one man and injuries to another man and a 7-year-old boy in Outlook on Monday.

Hunters aboard a helicopter took aim at wolves that have been killing sheep in Stevens County in northeast Washington. The Spokesman-Review reports state officials have OK'd the hunt for a portion of a wolf pack that's killed at least 22 sheep this month...

The Yakima City Council Tuesday voted in favor of funding the Bins of Light art project to be placed above the Lincoln Avenue underpass.