Our Bread & Roses community, a dozen formerly homeless women — our guests — and three live-in volunteers, gather each evening for a shared meal.
Saturday is the 33rd anniversary of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens that killed 57 people, knocked down a forest and filled the sky and rivers with volcanic ash.
The first planeload of the sought-after Copper River salmon from Cordova, Alaska, landed Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport, and the Alaska Airlines pilots carried a 40-pound king to waiting chefs.
The Transportation Department has reopened Chinook Pass.
Grays Harbor Community Hospital announced Friday that it has signed a letter of intent to “establish an affiliation network” between the hospital and Tacoma-based MultiCare Health System.
Boaters in Washington who operate under the influence face tougher penalties under a law signed Thursday by Gov. Jay Inslee.
Olympia City Councilwoman Jeannine Roe announced Friday afternoon that she is seeking re-election.
It was a gray, overcast day in unincorporated Thurston County when detectives Mitch King and Corey Johnson walked the perimeter of a dilapidated white house.
The Washington Beer & Wine Distributors Association is asking the city of Olympia to hold off on pursuing a mandatory ban on certain single-serve alcohol drinks and allow local distributors to voluntarily stop distributing the adult beverages.
A Thurston County jury has awarded a local woman more than $75,000 in damages after a neighbor's Rottweiler mix bit her on the calf in the driveway of her former High Valley Lane home in Tenino in May 2009.
An Army judge on Thursday handed down the toughest sentence he could give to a soldier who murdered five fellow service members at a Baghdad combat stress clinic.
Student-services workers at The Evergreen State College voted 45-5 Wednesday to authorize actions “up to and including a strike” as they continue negotiating with college leaders on a two-year labor contract.
A teen who is filing a civil rights complaint about alleged bullying incidents at Olympia High said he's been expelled from the school.
School district officials didn’t have to look very far to find a new leader for Tumwater High School.
Detectives with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a 19-year-old former lifeguard at Great Wolf Lodge on suspicion of third-degree child rape, court records state.
Puget Sound Energy customers can comment on a proposed four-year electric and natural gas rate plan agreed to between commission staff and the utility, a plan that could raise some electric customer’s bills by 3.4 percent or $3.29 more each month for service.
Tumwater Mayor Pete Kmet filed for re-election Monday, according ot a news release.
An Olympia medical building has been evacuated after a woman claimed to have left a bag of bombs at the facility Tuesday, according to a news release.
A 27-year-old Olympia woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges connecting her with her former Behavioral Health Resources counselor's strangulation death.
Two administrators from Seven Oaks Elementary School in Lacey will take the helm at other schools on July 1, according to North Thurston Public Schools spokeswoman Courtney Schrieve.
The opening of Thurston County’s new $43.5 million jail will be delayed again due to hiring and technological delays.
After several years of budget slashing, the Olympia School Board has been given a proposed spending plan that is filled with the “e” word: Enhancements. Superintendent Dick Cvitanich presented his proposed $93.5 million budget package for the 2013-14 school year during Monday night’s meeting.
The Thurston County Auditor’s Office is warning citizens about a property deed scam offering citizens a copy of their property deed for a fee of $89, when the service is actually much cheaper.
An Olympia medical building was evacuated after a woman claimed to have left a bag of bombs at the facility Tuesday, according to a news release.
Two administrators from Seven Oaks Elementary School in Lacey will take the helm at other schools on July 1, according to North Thurston Public Schools spokeswoman Courtney Schrieve.
The Olympia City Council took a step forward Tuesday night to spend an expected $450,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funds, which the city has typically used for housing and other social service programs.
A 27-year-old Olympia woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to attempted first-degree murder and first-degree murder in connection with her former Behavioral Health Resources counselor’s strangulation death at his Sunset Beach Drive home on April 29.
After several years of budget slashing, the Olympia School Board has been given a proposed spending plan that is filled with the “e” word: Enhancements.
The opening of Thurston County’s new $43.5 million jail will be delayed again due to hiring and technological delays.
Thousands of Defense Department employees in Pierce and Thurston counties still face unpaid time off this summer, but not as much as the Pentagon initially proposed.
The Mason County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Aaron Clinton Smith, who is considered armed with a .22 caliber rifle.
Police received a call during the weekend that a man was dragging a heavily intoxicated woman under a bridge in Aberdeen.
River Ridge High School in Lacey was evacuated about 8:15 a.m. Monday due to a small oven fire in the school’s kitchen, according to Cortny Martin with North Thurston Public Schools’ Community Relations Department.
A judge sentenced a man to nine months of work release Monday after he pleaded guilty to vehicular assault and driving under the influence for hitting a motorcyclist in March on 54th Avenue in Lacey.
Attention drivers: Buckle up and put the phone down.
Olympia police arrested a 26-year-old man Saturday on suspicion of stealing a 12-foot boat at Swantown Marina, and are investigating whether he is responsible for stealing a number of outboard motors that have gone missing at the marina over the past several weeks, a police spokeswoman said.
The Olympia City Council is expected to discuss Tuesday night how to spend an estimated $450,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant money, which has been historically used to fund housing and other social service programs.
ABERDEEN — Police served a search warrant at the Northwest Passage bar in South Aberdeen last week as part of a 10-month investigation into the owner, who is suspected of illegally using food purchased by welfare recipients using their government food benefits and serving it to bar patrons.
The Port of Olympia Commission is set to ratify a lease amendment at its meeting today, an agreement that could keep Weyerhaeuser and its log export business at the port for the next 20 years.
Julie Wyatt’s fifth-grade students at Pleasant Glade Elementary School weren’t surprised to hear she was named the state’s 2013 Elementary Science Teacher of the Year.
Saturday’s warm and muggy weather gave way to cooler temperatures Sunday, but that didn’t deter hundreds, if not thousands, from attending the final day of the 34th annual Wooden Boat Fair at Percival Landing.
Shelton’s Skyline Drive-In theater has successfully raised the money it needs to buy a digital projector, which means you will still be able to curl up with a blanket in the back of your truck and watch a movie under the stars.
Just days before the insider attack in which he was killed, Pfc. Jon Townsend sent flowers to his young wife, Brittany.
Ruben Rojo looked proudly from the second story of Saint Martin’s University’s Marcus Pavilion on Saturday as his 22-year-old sister became the first member of their family to receive a college degree.
The second-driest start to May on record in the Seattle area will end in time for rain today, on Mother’s Day, the National Weather Service said.
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