Growing food, growing themselves
Ask youths what they’ve learned after a year of hard work on the GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty) farm in Olympia, and you probably won’t hear an answer about agriculture or plant...
View ArticlePacking for home no small task for JBLM officer
For eight years, the Army sent all the trappings of modern war to Kirkuk Regional Air Base in northern Iraq. Air Force Maj. Tony Edwards gets to spend the next six months sending it back home.
View ArticleState Patrol seeks witnesses to fatal hit and run in Chehalis
The Washington State Patrol is looking for witnesses to a fatal hit and run that occurred Saturday night on Interstate 5 near Labree Road in Chehalis.
View ArticleNew GI workouts mimic stress of battlefield
Halfway through an hour of workout “agony,” Army I Corps Command Sgt. Maj. John Troxell let loose a shout to lift the spirits of the soldiers around him.
View Article'Turn the Budget Around' event puts thoughts outside the boxes
OLYMPIA – Cardboard boxes took on a whole new purpose Sunday at Heritage Park, creating a makeshift wall and serving as a message board for those condemning military spending and supporting...
View ArticleBanding brothers duck angry mom, tag falcon chicks
OLYMPIA – Four newly hatched peregrine falcons had some unusual-looking visitors Monday.
View ArticleWill 30 days be enough?
Republicans in the state Senate checked one major item off their to-do list Monday as an overhaul of the workers’ compensation system headed to the governor. But that’s not enough...
View ArticleWorkers’ comp bill passes
A major reform of the insurance system for injured Washington workers passed the state House on a 69-26 bipartisan vote Monday and was on its way to quick passage in the Senate on Monday evening.
View ArticleCounty to hire consultant to study satellite jail options
County officials want to know what it will take to fill the county’s new but empty $45 million satellite jail.
View ArticleTacoma homeowner shoots burglars in garage, kills one
A homeowner shot two men who broke into his detached garage in Tacoma’s South End early Monday, killing one and wounding the other.
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