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New statewide grants are helping people find ways to improve the air in their communities.

The grant will help researchers develop a wildfire simulator and a tool that predicts power outages. The tool will help them study Northwestern landscapes, characteristics of communities and ignition sources.

Walla Walla County has found permanent housing for 74% of the people who exited its homeless services system. That's data from the last fiscal year, according to the Washington Department of Commerce. And it's nearly twice the rate of the state as a whole.

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