Secretary of State Ralph Munro (left) leads a group down the staircase from the Cupola of the Capitol dome in 1997. (Courtesy of Washington State Archives) This year’s version sets limits.

Munro was a moderate Republican who served as secretary of state for two decades, from 1981 to 2001. He’s remembered as an ...

Former Secretary of State Ralph Munro will be honored in a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday in the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia. Munro, the longest-serving secretary of state in Washington ...

Former Secretary of State Ralph Munro will be honored in a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday in the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia. Munro, the longest-serving secretary of state in Washington ...

Former Secretary of State Ralph Munro will be honored in a memorial service at 2 p.m. Saturday in the State Capitol Rotunda in Olympia. Munro, the longest-serving secretary of state in Washington ...

Few, if any, members of the Washington state Legislature have been allowed to climb to the top of the state Capitol dome this century. That will soon change. A provision in the new capital budget ...

Olympia, WA Capitol Campus to host No Kings protest on Saturday. Thousands expected in push to reject authoritarianism and oppose Trump’s militarization tactics.

The Washington State Capitol or Legislative Building in Olympia is the home of the government of the state of Washington. (Walter G Arce Sr./Grindstone Media/ASP/Zuma Press/TNS) Just weeks after ...

Olympia, WA Capitol Campus to host No Kings protest on Saturday. Thousands expected in push to reject authoritarianism and oppose Trump’s militarization tactics.

We implore everyone not to play into Trump’s hands and fall for his schemes,” the chair of the Washington State Democratic Party said in a statement.

A visit to Olympia, to see our state Capitol Building, might restore your faith in democracy. A book suggests that in Olympia, "the American renaissance in state capitol building reached its climax." ...