As construction on the new $947 million Western State Hospital Facility continues in Lakewood, the state Department of Social and Health Services gave an update to the Lakewood City Council on April ...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Court records show the state cut off 39-year-old Pavel Kolchick, who’d lived at Washington state-run psychiatric hospitals for 18 years, from recommended trauma therapy three months ...

A patient who had been reported missing from Western State Hospital was found dead early Monday at a construction site on the hospital’s grounds, according to the Washington State Department of Social ...

LAKEWOOD, Wash. - A wanted man who escaped from Western State Hospital last month has been arrested. Joshua Rice, 45, was taken into custody by SeaTac police on April 12, over two weeks after he ...

Early Monday morning, Jan. 5, a person found dead at a construction site at Western State Hospital was identified by the Department of Social and Health Services as a patient who had been reported ...

The Staunton Police Department is searching for a 30-year-old man who escaped from Western State Hospital. Yassine Ismaili was last seen wearing a white shirt, gray sweatpants and tennis shoes, ...

During his campaign, Gov. Bob Ferguson promised to spend a week working at Western State Hospital to better understand the challenges facing the state’s largest psychiatric facility. Following a ...

Happening soon: 2nd Annual DuPont Chili Cookoff returns on Saturday, May 2 on the Lakewood Patch calendar ...