Sandbags were on standby at 9 a.m. Jan. 19 at Heritage Park when Capitol Lake was expected to flood in downtown Olympia. Andy Hobbs Staff file, 2017 State and city crews are preparing sandbags for ...

OLYMPIA — In the 1950s, builders of Olympia’s Fifth Avenue Dam realized a vision laid out by designers of the state Capitol Campus decades earlier by creating Capitol Lake, a reflecting pool ...