Ty Vinson

Nearly 100 students, parents and teachers spoke during Monday night's public hearing for the proposed closure of Madison Elementary School in Olympia.

The WSP was dispatched at around 7:20 a.m. on Friday to a single-vehicle collision on southbound I-5 near Exit 111 in Lacey.

The cross-town rival Pioneer Bowl football game in Tumwater is scheduled to happen Friday night at Tumwater High School despite an online threat

It's been more than two years since San Juan County adopted a 32-hour work week as a way to cut costs and save $2 million.

Thurston County Sheriff Derek Sanders said a minor was arrested, released and arrested again over the weekend in connection to threats made against a football game set to take place between Rochester and Centralia high schools.

The sheriff said the teen was turned away at juvenile detention and freed because of a breakdown in communication inside his office. The suspect was later re-arrested.

The city of Olympia said on social media that its efforts to repair sections of damaged sidewalk downtown will be shifting to night work this week to minimize disruptions to businesses and traffic.

Seven city officials, six of their family members and two former Olympia officials went on a weeklong sister city trip to Kato, Japan, at the end of September.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of a vehicle hitting a black bear on Thursday night, Deputy Mickey Hamilton told The Olympian on Oct. 30.

The Washington State Patrol responded to a collision Thursday on Interstate 5 in Thurston County that ended with two people being sent to the hospital.