The Ecostudies Institute and the Center for Natural Lands Management organized the prescribed ecological burn on land south ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into a law a bill to utilize Accessory Dwelling Units as part of an effort to solve Washington state’s housing shortage. An ADU is a smaller additional ...

Longmire is the one name from the settlement of the Yelm Prairie that is still remembered. Parks, streets and natural features carry his memory. History books mention James Longmire and writers of ...

Washington congressman riffs on national security in the Trump era In an interview with the Standard, U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, likened the president’s ...

The law firm that successfully argued the landmark Bruen case has agreed to take up the high-profile Gator’s Custom Guns case concerning Washington state’s prohibition on the sale, &hellip ...

Back in 1900 a group of farmers and business owners joined together to create a place where they could showcase animals and agriculture from the rich Puyallup Valley. They called it the Valley Fair, ...

Country music singer Garth Brooks once sang “It’s bulls and blood. It’s the dust and mud. It’s the roar of a Sunday crowd” to describe what a bull rider might love about riding in a rodeo. For Yelm’s ...

Fire burns Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad's 28-span trestle bridge between Mineral and Morton the night of Wednesday, April 30.

Rainier will host the 31st annual Bluegrass Festival from Aug. 21 through 25 during the Rainier Round-Up Days weekend at Wilkowski Park. The festival, hosted by the We Love Rainier WA nonprofit ...

Washington schools looking to send students to overnight outdoor education programs are dealing with a financial crunch after grant funding was left out of the state budget.  The Outdoor … ...

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