Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standing at more than 10 feet tall with a whale-bone club clenched in his fist is “Steh-Chass Man,” a Welcome Figure overlooking ...

May 28—KAMILCHE POINT, Mason County — The Squaxin Island Tribe’s health clinic is named after Sally Brownfield’s late mother, who spent decades working to obtain quality care for members of her Native ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the southernmost point of Puget Sound Saturday to celebrate life, culture and the environment alongside the Squaxin Island Tribe. The Healing of the Waters ceremony ...

The city of Olympia’s Yashiro Japanese Garden will close June 1, and despite plans to relocate the garden, a new site has yet ...

Joseph Peters, Puget Sound Restoration Fund board of directors and Squaxin Island Tribe member, at the announcement on Monday, July 22, 2024. Courtesy of the Washington State Department of Natural ...

OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Natural Resources and the Squaxin Island Tribe have announced a partnership to conserve the Squaxin Island Kelp Bed, the last major kelp bed in South Puget Sound ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington is moving to protect struggling kelp beds near Squaxin Island as part of a broader push to restore critical marine habitats. On Friday, Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove ...

Two local tribes are receiving more than $12 million in federal grants to remove fish passage barriers, including Olympia’s Fifth Avenue Dam. The two local projects are among nine projects the ...

The Squaxin Island Tribe and the Skokomish Indian Tribe are among 10 western Washington tribes that will split an $11 million federal grant to boost law enforcement. The grants from the Justice ...

Standing at more than 10 feet tall with a whale-bone club clenched in his fist is “Steh-Chass Man,” a Welcome Figure overlooking Budd Inlet just south of Squaxin Park. He soon may have a partner ...