The Washington State Capitol Campus is launching a multi-year renovation project involving three buildings on the west Campus. The Olympian Expect some extra noise around the Capitol Campus ...

The security fencing around buildings on Washington state’s Capitol campus has been removed, four months after the barriers went up during national unrest tied to the presidential election.

Normal operations have resumed at the Washington state Capitol campus in Olympia after two buildings were locked down on Wednesday morning.

Law-enforcement officers searched two Capitol campus buildings but could find no evidence of a shooting or a shooter, and the lockdown was lifted after about an hour.

The General Administration Building on the Washington state Capitol campus in Olympia was completed in 1956. It’s now slated for demolition. (Photo courtesy of Department of Enterprise Services ...

Demolition of the Irving Newhouse Building on the campus of the Washington state Capitol in 2023. A new building is going up on the site and an effort is underway to ensure the new building has ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Security upgrades to the Washington state Capitol campus were in the works before the events of Jan. 6, 2021, but what occurred that day helped make them happen.

The Capitol Campus is much quieter now that Washington’s 2025 legislative session has wrapped, but the gardens of the surrounding grounds are still buzzing with springtime activity.

A 100-year-old big leaf maple tree will be removed from the Washington state Capitol Campus on Friday. The Department of Enterprise Services said in a news release that the 60-foot-tall tree with ...

As people stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 2021, about 100 people broke through the gate to the governor's residence in Washington state.