Olympia News

Voters in the 14th legislative district have an opportunity to send a much-needed two-party delegation to Olympia and Vickie Ybarra is ready, willing and certainly able to step up to the challenge.

In this still frame from a TV advertisement produced by supporters of Washington state's assisted suicide ballot initiative, Nancy Niedzielski, who lost her husband Randy to brain cancer, is shown.

Three masked gunmen crashed a get-together being held by three Evergreen State College roommates at a home in the 800 block of West Bay Drive about 9:30 p.m. Oct.

Questions keep coming up about voter registration practices in Washington state, but not at the scale seen after the disputed governor's race in 2004.

A 20-year-old student at The Evergreen State College was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of third-degree rape and fourth-degree assault based on a female student's accusations about an incident at his dorm ...

Mike Visser and Erik Eikenberry have opened Market Response Media in Olympia. The company's goal is to create unique and successful advertising solutions that help businesses define their image and brand ...

On Sept. 16, Barbara Kline and I went to testify before the Legislative Joint Task Force for Basic Education Finance.

Starting work an hour earlier was cause for celebration in some state offices Monday.

Palin was well-coached, attractive and in some places fairly able to hold her own, but for the most part her lack of knowledge beyond the coaching was painfully evident ... She spent more time concentrating on ...

Police say a Missouri woman who didn't return her four children to state custody has been found in Olympia, Wash.

What was supposed to be the last nice day of the year became what Ivy Green now calls the last nice day of her life.

A 19-year-old who met a young woman from Olympia on MySpace and agreed to share $120 worth of marijuana with her was beaten and robbed during a rendezvous at the Tumwater Safeway, court papers state.

The City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to begin the process of raising building height limits on part of the strip of land between Capitol Lake and Budd Inlet, where a local developer wants to build 5- and ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Gov. Chris Gregoire Friday issued the following statement on the U.S. House of Representatives' approval of an economic stabilization plan: "Today's bipartisan approval of a rescue plan by the ...

I arrived here on Tuesday and I'm parked in my ex-neighbors backyard. I lived in this area for 16 years before going to full-time RVing in 1995.

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will stay in Olympia for its October and November meetings as a cost-saving measure.

A toxicology report says a motorcycle rider was high on methamphetamine when he slammed into an Intercity Transit bus on July 27, killing him and his girlfriend.

Restoration work is nearly complete on 1 of the most prominent pieces of art on the Capitol campus in Olympia.

A former truck driver already jailed in Nevada has been charged in Olympia with the rape last April of a Saint Martin's University student.

A rape victim's stolen iPod, a stun gun and DNA evidence link a Washington truck driver in Washoe County Jail with the April rape of a 20-year-old college student who was attacked as she was walked on a wooded ...