The Ecostudies Institute and the Center for Natural Lands Management organized the prescribed ecological burn on land south ...

Washington governor and AG stand by state prison notifications to ICE There’s rising pressure to revisit the policy, one of the few exceptions to a law that blocks state and local agencies from ...

White Hawk Carriers, an interstate freight carrier in Ceres, Calif., is under investigation along with one of its drivers facing three charges of vehicular homicide in Florida. Additionally, … ...

Washington’s Department of Ecology fined the U.S. Postal Service $33,000 this week for improperly storing and disposing of packages containing dangerous wastes at its Seattle Bulk Mail Center.

Rainier will host the 31st annual Bluegrass Festival from Aug. 21 through 25 during the Rainier Round-Up Days weekend at Wilkowski Park. The festival, hosted by the We Love Rainier WA nonprofit ...

Thurston County Public Health and Social Services is reporting a toxic algae bloom for McIntosh Lake near Tenino. Lab results ...

The West Thurston Fire Authority and its partner agencies were able to halt a brush fire in South Thurston County on Monday afternoon before it could reach homes in the area.

WAGOP Chairman and State Rep. Jim Walsh, R-Aberdeen, speaks to supporters during a rally parental rights, organized by Let’s Go Washington, in front of the Capitol in Olympia on Saturday, Feb. 15.

Microschools are growing in popularity, but state regulations haven’t caught up States may define microschools as homeschools, private schools or something else ...

Ten months after Tumwater installed a solar-powered electric vehicle charger in a city park, new data obtained by the Washington Policy Center think tank indicates the EV charger has not lived up to ...

Should biological boys play in girls’ high school sports? Of the Thurston County residents responding to that question in a recent poll, 84% voted no. You wonder how the remaining 16% … ...

Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, says the article is nonsense. He criticized the piece in a Thursday blog in which he called the article ...