For the first time, Washington’s attorney general has enforced the state’s new cap on rent hikes, fining eight landlords $2,000 each for violating the law. House Bill 1217 took … ...

Microschools are growing in popularity, but state regulations haven’t caught up States may define microschools as homeschools, private schools or something else ...

Washington state and Seattle are not changing their immigration policies despite being identified Tuesday in a Department of ...

The Thurston County Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant Monday at a residence in the 300 block of School Street ...

A 28-year-old registered sex offender who sexually exploited 10 different minor teens after cutting off his electronic monitoring device and absconding from Department of Corrections community custody ...

Thurston County Public Health and Social Services is reporting a toxic algae bloom for McIntosh Lake near Tenino. Lab results ...

Providence Swedish hospitals throughout the Puget Sound region have again been recognized for their overall excellence, as well as excellence in specialty areas, in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ...

House Bill 1217 took … The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) recently issued a news release encouraging new hunters to complete their mandatory hunter education course as soon as ...

Should biological boys play in girls’ high school sports? Of the Thurston County residents responding to that question in a recent poll, 84% voted no. You wonder how the remaining 16% … ...

The Washington State University Thurston County Extension and Thurston County Public Works are recruiting for the 2025-26 Master Recycler Composter (MRC) Volunteer Training program. The interactive ...

Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, says the article is nonsense. He criticized the piece in a Thursday blog in which he called the article ...

Seven potential cases of tuberculosis have been reported at the federal immigrant detention center in Tacoma. But state health officials don’t believe the serious and highly contagious bacterial ...