House Republican budget lead Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, is firing back at Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Democratic budget writers blaming the Trump administration for deep cuts in Medicaid ...

The West Thurston Fire Authority and its partner agencies were able to halt a brush fire in South Thurston County on Monday afternoon before it could reach homes in the area.

Thurston County Public Health and Social Services is reporting a toxic algae bloom for McIntosh Lake near Tenino. Lab results ...

The Thurston County Resource Hub invites the community to the second annual Block Party on Wednesday, Aug. 13, from 11 a.m.

The Thurston County Narcotics Task Force executed a search warrant Monday at a residence in the 300 block of School Street ...

Joe Kent, a former Army Special Forces soldier and two-time Republican candidate for Congress in Washington state, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday as director of the National ...

Washington state is currently forecast to run out of money by 2027 and experience a fiscal deficit by 2028 despite the largest tax increase in state history this session, in addition to record … ...

For the first time, Washington’s attorney general has enforced the state’s new cap on rent hikes, fining eight landlords $2,000 each for violating the law. House Bill 1217 took … ...

For more than six years, the Cedar Park Assembly of God in Kirkland has been fighting Washington state in court over a law that requires employer-sponsored health insurance to cover access to abortion ...

If state funding for forest health and wildfire prevention isn’t ramped back up in the next legislative session, it could hinder efforts to prevent severe fires in the coming years, … ...

Some of Washington state’s food banks say they are on the brink Some have already pulled back on what they’re offering, as federal cuts and heightened demand drive deep worries about what comes next ...

Seven potential cases of tuberculosis have been reported at the federal immigrant detention center in Tacoma. But state health officials don’t believe the serious and highly contagious bacterial ...