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 ...

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 ...

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 Thurston County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution calling for sealed bids for the new sheriff’s office renovation project. The building, located at 1111 Israel ...

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 ...

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

This week, the Trump administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced an effort to check the immigration status of people who get their health insurance through Medicaid and ...

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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Bail is set at $250,000 for the owner of a Rochester K9 training business accused of fatally shooting one of his employees while filming a video advertisement on Tuesday. Thurston County … ...