1+ hour, 32+ min ago  (1119+ words) After nearly an hour of heated debate, the Thurston County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to delay renewal of $15. 29 million in homeless services and affordable housing contracts for the 2026-27 fiscal year. The pause came at the request of the City…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (163+ words) Two people were evacuated from a fully involved house fire near Offut Lake early Thursday morning." They were both treated for smoke inhalation and transferred to local hospitals for further evaluation." The fire was reported at about 3: 40 a. m. on Thursday, June…...

2+ hour, 9+ min ago  (399+ words) Thurston County Commissioners on Tuesday put a one-year halt on permitting new public and private involuntary detention centers and correctional facilities in Thurston County." The temporary freeze aligns Thurston County with similar land-use actions recently made by King and Pierce…...

2+ hour, 32+ min ago  (199+ words) Due to forecasted high temperatures on Tuesday, June 23, Thurston County Public Health and Social Services has issued a "Hazardous Weather" advisory to increase shelter-in-place efforts." The National Weather Service predicts a high of 92 degrees Fahrenheit in the Olympia area." Olympia…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago  (579+ words) A half dozen Republican governors are pushing alternative labels for June, which is widely recognized in the United States as Pride Month. Without explicitly tying their efforts to a replacement of Pride Month " which celebrates the LGBTQ+ community " GOP governors…...

8+ hour, 48+ min ago  (424+ words) The Trump administration is backing off from its plans to remove a decade-old ocean monitoring system Oregonians rely on for fishing, recreation, science and emergency services. The National Science Foundation this month began dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative system, a…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (813+ words) Facebook's parent company must pay the largest campaign finance fine in Washington state history, the state Supreme Court affirmed in a split decision Thursday. Meta urged the justices to declare a state law unconstitutional under the First Amendment to avert…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (469+ words) A new report published this month by a Boise-based nonprofit organization found that state and federal income tax cuts have benefited the highest-income Idaho households the most, while low-income families are actually paying more. The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy…...

1+ day, 48+ min ago  (437+ words) The Thurston County Auditor's Elections Division mailed over 10, 000 primary election ballots to military and overseas voters registered in Thurston County." Ballot envelopes must be signed and dated by election day or received via email or fax by 8 p. m. Pacific Daylight Time…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (302+ words) An attorney advising the Alaska Legislature said Wednesday that Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom may have violated the U. S. Constitution when she disqualified Petersburg's Daniel J. Sullivan from this year's U. S. Senate race in Alaska. Rep. Andrew Gray, D-Anchorage and chair of the House…...