Capitol Campus demo, crash victim recovering, mudflats rescue: May 14 roundup

News in Olympia on May 14, 2026, included a major Capitol Campus project and a local mudflats rescue.

Here are key takeaways:

• Crews have begun a $16.5 million demolition of the General Administration Building, a 1956 Capitol Campus landmark vacant since 2018. The Legislature is set to decide what replaces it — though Deputy Secretary of State Randy Bolerjack is pushing for a new home for the state archives and library collections, which currently face space constraints.
• Jack Edwards, 21, has been discharged from the hospital and is recovering at home after a May 3 boat crash near Boston Harbor Marina left him with a broken right femur and other significant injuries. A 51-year-old was arrested on suspicion of assault by watercraft.
• A woman sank chest-deep in mud at Ellis Cove near Budd Inlet on Wednesday and was rescued with minor injuries by Olympia Fire, Olympia police, Lacey Fire District 3 and state Department of Fish and Wildlife crews, who warned that tidal mudflats pose extreme drowning and entrapment risks.

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