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DALLAS, TEXAS – DECEMBER 8, 2018: An Alaska Airlines passenger jet is serviced at a gate on a rainy day at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport which serves the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, metroplex area in Texas. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images)

Off-duty pilot who tried to switch off an airplane’s engine in flight told FBI it was his first time taking psychedelic mushrooms

By Claire Rush, Gene Johnson, and others

LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 13: Alaska Horizon Embraer S A ERJ 170-200 LR takes off from Los Angeles international Airport on January 13, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

An off-duty pilot tried to shut down the engines of a flight to San Francisco in midair and had to be subdued, authorities say

By David Koenig, Claire Rush, and others

Wilbur Slockish, left, Carol Logan, center, and Johnny Jackson

After a 15-year fight that reached the Supreme Court, the feds are restoring the ‘Place of Big Big Trees’ after building a road through it

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

LAS PALMAS AIR BASE, LIMA, PERU – 2023/04/23: Piper PA-44 Seminole aircraft shown at the 2023 Peruvian Air Force Festival. The Aeronautical Festival is held at Las Palmas air base in Commemoration of the 109th birth anniversary of the Peruvian national hero Cap. FAP José Abelardo Quiñones Gonzales, Great Air General of Peru, and in celebration of Fighter Pilot Day. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Granthon/Fotoholica Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Pilot instructor, 22, among victims as plane abruptly drops, crashes into Oregon home

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

A Chipotle restaurant in New York, US, on Monday, July 3, 2023. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. is scheduled to release earnings figures on July 26. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Teen employee wearing hijab repeatedly harassed by male Chipotle manager wanting to see her hair, says EEOC lawsuit

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

Hano Ganer looks for belongings through the ashes of their family’s home in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023. A wildfire that left Lahaina in charred ruins has killed at least 67 people, authorities said on August 11, making it one of the deadliest disasters in the US state’s history. Brushfires on Maui, fueled by high winds from Hurricane Dora passing to the south of Hawaii, broke out August 8 and rapidly engulfed Lahaina. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Maui fire survivors are battling shock, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress—many without medication or mental health care

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

A burnt out car lies in the driveway of charred apartment complex in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 12, 2023. Hawaii’s Attorney General, Anne Lopez, said August 11, she was opening a probe into the handling of devastating wildfires that killed at least 80 people in the state this week, as criticism grows of the official response. The announcement and increased death toll came as residents of Lahaina were allowed back into the town for the first time. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)

‘It was like a war’: Maui residents had moments to make life-or-death choices about how to flee the approaching inferno

By Claire Rush, Claire Galofaro, and others

Smoke billows near boats docked at Lahaina as wildfires driven by high winds destroy a large part of the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii, U.S. August 9, 2023. Dustin Johnson/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. REFILE – REMOVING KAHULUI – RC2HK2A5T94F

‘Nowhere is immune’: Maui’s devastating fires that have killed at least 6 and destroyed a historic tourist town are fueled by climate change

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

Gadiel Galvez, 22, adjusts a sign stating that his resident cooperative owns their mobile home park, Bob’s and Jamestown Homeowners Cooperative, in Lakewood, Wash., on Saturday, March 25, 2023. When residents learned the park’s owner was looking to sell, they formed a cooperative and bought it themselves amid worries it would be redeveloped. Since becoming owners in September 2022, residents have worked together to manage and maintain the park. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Residents are buying their mobile home parks—and preserving one of the last affordable housing options for low-income Americans

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

Darcelle

Darcelle, Guinness record holder as world’s oldest working drag queen, dies in Portland at 92

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

Mass timber affordable home prototypes are shown at the Port of Portland in Portland, Ore. Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. The prototype was built in a warehouse at the port. The Oregon Mass Timber Coalition aims to open a factory at the site that could mass produce homes and potentially alleviate the state’s housing shortage. (AP Photo/Claire Rush)

Housing activists clash with environmentalists over mass timber factory homes: ‘We have to do this’

By Claire Rush and The Associated Press

The house featured in the Steven Spielberg film "The Goonies."

The famous ‘Goonies’ mansion in Oregon is going on sale for $1.7 million

By The Associated Press and Claire Rush