Olympia News

OLYMPIA A Thurston County judge sentenced a Yelm man to more than 14 years in prison Thursday for shaking his 12-week-old daughter, fracturing her skull and causing permanent injuries.

South Sound is on pace for a record-setting dry summer, according to the National Weather Service.

An accident near milepost 82 and heavy traffic through Olympia and Lacey are affecting Interstate 5, and are expected to affect traffic for the next half a day, the Washington Department of Transportation reported Sunday afternoon.

OLYMPIA An Olympia-area man was flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle early Saturday after he had driven his car off the road where Farwell Avenue dead-ends, plummeting 60 to 80 feet down a steep embankment, Olympia police said.

Olympia fire crews responded to a structure fire at 2:03 a.m. Tuesday morning, at the Gibbons House Apartments in the 1000 block of Capitol Way S. Employees at Wagner's Bakery noticed smoke in the area and called 9-1-1. Firefighters found a small exterior wall fire in a passageway between a garage and the residential portion of the structure.

Damn, hit submit too soon. They were protesting all the money being spent on banks, insurance and car companies.

State office carpets will collect more dust and the Capitol's marble may lose some shine over the next two years.

OLYMPIA Fire crews took photos Sunday of spent fireworks shells on the roof of a home that caught fire Saturday night, but Olympia Fire Battalion Chief Pat Noonan stopped short of saying fireworks caused the blaze.

Fireworks are to blame for multiple blazes across Western Washington on Saturday night that caused well over $1 million in damage.

A free course about local land-use planning will be offered from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. July 7 in Room 101-102 at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St.

Despite low attendance at previous events, organizers of an anti-tax rally in Olympia on Independence Day are expecting thousands of people.

OLYMPIA Assistant City Manager Subir Mukerjee has resigned after City Manager Steve Hall told him his job would be restructured as part of layoffs planned for January.

Olympia's 150th birthday will be celebrated with a neighborhood block party and community celebration billed as "A Table for Olympia" from 5 to 9 p.m. July 10 downtown.

Professional initiative promoter Tim Eyman could move his latest campaign closer to the ballot if he hands over nearly 300,000 valid petition signatures to Washington state officials.

University of Washington seismologists say a 3.7 magnitude quake under Whidbey Island early today came from the same zone that produced the 6.8 Nisqually quake in 2001.

OLYMPIA A man arrested Monday on suspicion of selling heroin out of his home on Olympia's west side "admitted to purchasing large amounts of heroin on a regular basis from two Mexican sources in the Tacoma area," court papers state.

In its July 2009 issue, Kiplinger magazine listed Olympia, Wash., as No. 6 on its "Best Cities: It's All About Jobs" list.

Bob and Shari Buelt's waterfront home is a study in elegance. The floors are gleaming mahogany, tasteful paintings decorate the kitchen walls, and each room has a wonderful view of Budd Inlet in Olympia, Wash.

The Washington state Visitor Information Center, which has guided people to tourism activities around the state for nearly years, is set to close starting Wednesday.

OLYMPIA The TEA Party movement is aimed at stopping tax increases, but numerous political sentiments were on display during a rally Saturday at Heritage Park.