OLYMPIA There is sufficient demand downtown for 59 to 93 new apartments per year and 30 to 44 new condominium units per year in the next 10 years, according to a new draft study.
The cost of the special legislative session in Olympia has shrunk to less than $14,000 a day, thanks to a growing line of state legislators who are refusing to accept their $90-per-day expense allowances.
The Old Red Barn Tavern, a South Sound institution at its current location since 1967, is set to close this month once its lease expires, the owner, property owner and longtime customers said Thursday.
A child's body found Thursday on an island beach in Puget Sound is that of an 8-year-old boy who vanished last weekend with his mother, a Pierce County sheriff's spokesman said.
The Medical Quality Assurance Commission and Department of Health has revoked Olympia physician Sarah S. Reade's license after she was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol in December.
A woman walking on the beach with friends Sunday found a small shoe, an inhaler and a half-full bottle of white wine that had washed up about a quarter-mile east of where a missing woman's minivan had been found on the shore that morning.