A new state bill is set to be introduced in Olympia and aims to collect more than $2 billion a year from the likes of Amazon ...

A jury convicted the man of first-degree murder and other crimes while a co-defendant who pleaded guilty got a much lower sentence.

Nearly two weeks after a leak shut down the pipeline that delivers jet fuel to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the ...

The rapid return of homeless encampments to this park has neighbors and advocates worried it signals what's to come when ...

Kevin Hinzpeter was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for setting a man on fire at an Olympia homeless camp in 2023. Prosecutors say Hinzpeter and another suspect, Christopher Snyder, attacked ...

There are many ways to go from Seattle to Portland. You can catch an hour flight, go for a three-ish hour drive, jump on a 3 1/2-hour FlixBus or take a scenic 3 1/2-hour Amtrak train ride. But how ...

Nov. 10—Two men who set fire to a man at an Olympia homeless encampment last year have been convicted on murder charges. Following a three-week trial that ended on Friday, a Thurston County Superior ...

Thirty-two people have been moved into transitional housing after the city of Olympia completed the final phase of closing Percival Creek Canyon to homeless encampments last week. The west Olympia ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Despite a slowdown in the growth rate of homelessness in Washington, the numbers remain alarmingly high according to the 2025 Point In Time (PIT) count and the Department of ...

In late July, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting homelessness in the United States by declaring mentally ill unhoused individuals as dangerous. Among other tactics, the order ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The growth rate of homelessness in Washington slowed in 2025, according to results from the annual Point in Time (PIT) count and the Department of Commerce’s Snapshot of Homelessness ...

For years, NeChole lived with the kind of pain that would stop her in her tracks. Lightning bolts would shoot down her leg, so painful it would bring her to her knees. She’s fallen many times because ...