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Andy Hobbs covers the City of Olympia for The Olympian.

Olympia City Council

Andy Hobbs brings you the latest happenings in Olympia, and the decisions of the Olympia City Council...

John McGrath

John McGrath

Read the latest from sports columnist John McGrath: "Maybe Mariners' bad mojo intertwined...

South Sound

Toy Kay, who founded the Olympia Area Chinese Fellowship in 1974, operated a restaurant with her husband for nearly 36 years on Capitol Way.

Olympia Area Chinese Fellowship thrives after 34 years

Toy Kay might be the matriarch of the Olympia Area Chinese Fellowship, but she considers herself an American through and through. After 34 years, the fellowship thrives as a cultural resource and heritage hub for the local Chinese community. One of...

Government

Washington state Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn listens to a question, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011 from the Senate Education Committee at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo)

Superintendent Randy Dorn offers his own school funding plan

State lawmakers face a deadline of April 30 to report to the state Supreme Court on their plan for fully funding basic education by 2018. Now state schools chief Randy Dorn is suggesting what the report should say.

Sports

Seattle Mariners' Kyle Seager, center, is playfully chased by teammates after his three-run, walk-off home run against the Houston Astros in the ninth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, April 23, 2014, in Seattle. The Mariners won 5-3. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seager's walk-off blast ends Mariners' skid with 5-3 win over Astros

Well, how about this? Just when it appeared the Mariners were headed toward a ninth straight loss Wednesday afternoon, Kyle Seager unloaded a three-run homer that delivered a 5-3 walk-off victory over the Houston Astros. 2 hours ago

Business

Cellphone technology inventor and Cell Focus company owner Thomas Larson stops by the downtown Olympia post office Monday to ship new orders for his product, a lens on a smartphone with 15 times magnification.

Crowd has spoken: Local man's Micro Phone Lens a go

Olympia inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Larson has done it again, raising for the second time far more money than he had originally sought for his product on the fundraising website Kickstarter.

Opinion

Let’s reject sex trade growth in Thurston County

The world’s oldest profession is flourishing around the nation, and in the Seattle-Tacoma corridor in particular. That requires sex slavery and human trafficking — prostitution’s evil cousins — to provide a constant supply ...

Living & Entertainment

A stepping stone staircase climbs past heaths, heathers and Fothergilla shrubs at Albers Vista Garden in Bremerton

Green uprising: Hillside garden of two physicians is an oasis of botanical diversity

In a shadowy glade near Bremerton, a garden grows. From a small forest of maples and rhododendrons, it rises onto a sunny slope of lavender and citrus trees. From there it climbs through viburnums and rare conifers to surround a gazebo that has a ...

Nation & World

FILE -This April 13, 2014 file photo shows the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington. Tuesday, April 15, is the federal tax filing deadline for most Americans.

IRS awards bonuses to 1,100 who owe back taxes

The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said Tuesday.