Cheers: To bipartisanship in Olympia. State Sens. John Braun, R-Centralia, and Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, have spearheaded a bill to add $2 billion over four years for special education funding at the ...

Sea Mart, one of Olympia’s most unique stores, opened in 1959. Part of Chehalis-based Yard Birds, it reused Olympia Canning Company buildings ...

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are flowing into Thurston County annually following settlements from state and county lawsuits against opioid manufacturers, distributors and marketers. County public ...

Some people, when they go to the store for milk and coffee, pick up a lottery ticket at the same time. Some people like to ...

Like many people here in Washington state, we have watched in alarm, horror and outrage as the new federal administration has taken a chainsaw to critical public programs and thrown millions of lives ...

We all know laws are created by our elected representatives in Olympia and in Washington D.C. That doesn't stop many of us ...

With lawmakers in Olympia just past the halfway point of this year’s legislative session, scores of policy proposals have ...

In Washington, much of that federal coin comes in what Reykdal dubbed the “Big Three”: funding aimed at supporting students ...

All those years of spending every penny (and a few more) have caught up with us, Kris Johnson of the Association of ...

Now there’s a new plan for the park, and the district has agreed to be a partner. The school district board of directors and ...

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Access to facilities, including restrooms and trails, could be limited at national parks and U.S. Forest Service lands, increasing pressure on state lands, they say.