In 1964, a public swimming area was built at Olympia’s Capitol Lake Park (601 Water Street SW). A favorite hang-out spot on hot summer days, pollution problems forced its closure in 1985 and is now a ...

Responsibility for the enormous project to return Capitol Lake to an estuary has been transferred to the Department of Ecology. The Washington State Legislature included the decision in the budget ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Mother Nature is helping Washington return a man-made lake to its natural state. The state is restoring Capitol Lake, a lake created by an Olympia dam in the 1950s, to an estuary.

If you’ve taken a walk through downtown Olympia or the Capitol Campus lately, you might’ve noticed a barge on Capitol Lake. Seeing people on the water is a rare sight these days, but the work ...

Olympia is one of Washington’s better-known cities — it’s the state capital, after all. But at the same time, it can be ...