Olympia News

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.

TUMWATER Six years after the closure of the former Olympia Brewery, this once-vibrant economic engine has long since petered out and now has begun to decay.

Professional activist Tim Eyman spoke to a crowd of several hundred people at an anti-tax rally at Olympia and said he still needs the requisite signatures in a petition drive to put Initiative 1033 on the ballot.

The Port of Olympia announced yesterday that it is negotiating with Tarragon to develop the East Bay District in downtown Olympia.

Yesterday Mary and I wandered around Olympia. Among the things we saw/did was...have lunch with my ex-attorney and still good friend Shawn Newman.

OLYMPIA, Washington - A former prison inmate who says she was shackled during childbirth sued the state Thursday, saying her constitutional rights were violated.

An Olympia man is accused of causing an accident while rushing his dog to veterinary clinic.

A Thurston County judge sentenced a Fort Lewis soldier who has served two tours of duty in Iraq to one year in prison Wednesday for selling 20 Ecstasy pills to an undercover informant last year.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The state fire marshal's office says projected dry conditions will lead to above-normal wildfire danger this summer in parts of Eastern Washington.