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Avanti High junior Jennifer Kabat, 16, installs one of five bee nesting boxes - part of her Girl Scout gold award project "Pollinate and Educate" - in the community garden at Avanti High School in Olympia on Friday, July 25, 2014.

Olympia Girl Scout’s project will keep school garden buzzing

Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Kabat’s Girl Scout project is designed to bring more non-stinging bees to the Giving Garden at Avanti High School and Madison Elementary School in Olympia.

Government

Washington, Colorado senators urge Obama to be consistent on marijuana

Pressure on the White House continues to mount after the New York Times advocates for national pot legalization.

Sports

Seattle Mariners reliever Fernando Rodney, once a fastball-slinging one-trick pony, now commands a change-up with some unique movement that took him years to perfect.

Seattle Mariners closer Fernando Rodney aiming for the moon

Seattle Mariners closer Fernando Rodney leads the American League in saves and quirks.

Business

Timberland Bank on Trosper Road in Tumwater

Quarterly bank earnings rise at Anchor, Timberland

Improving credit quality helped Lacey-based Anchor Bancorp, the parent company to Anchor Bank, swing to a profit for its fiscal fourth quarter.

Opinion

NFL lagging on domestic violence discipline

The NFL suspends players for four games for a DUI conviction, more for smoking marijuana and sometimes season-long evictions for repeated use of performance enhancing drugs. But for beating a woman unconscious, perhaps within inches of her life, ...

Living & Entertainment

Mason Price, 3, rides the airplanes with his sister, Savannah Price (right), 6, and their cousins Lynlea Swanson (left), 7, and Chloe Swanson, 5, of Lacey, during the opening day of the Thurston County Fair in Lacey in 2013.

Thurston County Fair adds some different flavors to traditional offerings

The Thurston County Fair — which opens Wednesday, July 30 — now has an edge. You can still see animals being auctioned off and watch judges decide who bakes the best pie, but you also can check out the talents of tattoo artists, attend...

Nation & World

Australia rules out new sanctions against Russia

Australia's prime minister said Wednesday that he is not considering ratcheting up sanctions against Russia while his government focuses on retrieving Australian victims from the wreckage of the Malaysian airliner disaster in Ukraine. 11 minutes ago