Cedar Creek Corrections Center News

There's periodic talk of this, of getting rid of any number of state boards and commissions.

Two inmates were arrested Friday after they walked away from a work crew in Olympia, according to the state Department of Corrections.

Eighty Oregon spotted frogs were released on Tuesday at Fort Lewis in Pierce County.

Thurston County Sheriff's deputies and officers from the Department of Corrections are searching for a Cedar Creek Corrections Center inmate who escaped while training for a forest service crew around 11:20 a.m. Thursday about a mile from the prison.

While most of us have taken advantage of warm, dry weather this spring and summer, the sunny skies have taken a toll on our forests, grasslands and lawns.

LITTLEROCK, Wash. - Kneeling on the edge of a tank the size of a child's wading pool, Harry Greer thrust his arm into the cool water and scooped up three frogs.

A 10-acre wildfire in Capitol State Forest remained out of control Friday night as an investigator worked to determine the cause.

A wildfire that started Friday in Capitol State Forest was the result of arson, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Natural Resources said Saturday.

Native plants for South Sound prairie-restoration projects take root in tiny yellow tubes, tended to by inmates in one of the four greenhouses at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center.