Grand Mound News

Thurston County is trying to stop a dramatic rise in the number of car prowls. Across the county, vehicle prowls are up 20 percent over last year.

Local candidates on Tuesday night faced a host of questions, from county and state budget tightening, to flooding and the future of the area's economic development.

The state will investigate why a cable barrier didn't prevent a car from veering into the opposite lanes of Interstate 5 in southern Thurston County, causing a collision that killed two people and hurt two ...

All lanes of Interstate 5 are expected to reopen in the next hour following a collision this morning between a tractor-trailer and car that left two people dead and two children critically injured.

Posted October 4, 1:29 am. E-mail this article to a friend. By Sharyn L. Decker sdecker@chronline.com Two people were killed in a head-on collision on Interstate 5 at Grand Mound on Friday morning and later in ...

Interstate 5 has reopened to traffic following a collision this morning between a tractor-trailer and car that killed two people and injured two others, but substantial backups are reported.

A dispute over the property tax for the Chehalis Tribes' Great Wolf Lodge at Grand Mound is headed for federal court in Tacoma.

Great Wolf: Chehalis Tribe Says It's Not Required to Pay Property Taxes By Eric Schwartz The Chronicle A property tax dispute that has pitted the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation against the ...

Organizers of the People's Council, this week at Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, see it not just as a conference, but as part of a civil rights movement.

Today is primary election day, but it just doesn't feel like it. Primary election day Election coverage: Go to www.theolympian.com/election for Olympian stories on today's primary election and go to ...

The Grand Mound-Rochester Fire Department's chief was feeling good about the preliminary results for the agency's levy on election night.

A three-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 12 near Rochester Tuesday evening totaled a van, sent three people to the hospital and shut down the road for several hours because of a sizable diesel spill.

Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor gloom of night will keep the Thurston County auditor's office from delivering election ballots to an area of Grand Mound the postal service won't go to.

Rain, sleet, snow, and gloom of night are one thing. The safety of postal carriers is another, and because of that about a dozen ballots for the primary Aug.

Port of Tacoma protests quiet as Strykers roll The situation at the Port of Tacoma was mostly quiet on Thursday night.

Residents in southwest Thurston County will be asked to approve a measure in the upcoming primary election to increase the property taxes paid to their fire department.

Lewis County Sheriff Steve Mansfield praised his wire theft task force on Friday, for thwarting yet another group of locals he says were illegally trading in scrap metal.

He falls into a type of trance, his eyes bulging out of his head like a bullfrog stalking a fly as he flutters his lips with his tongue partially hanging out.

Speedy drivers on Interstate 5 are about to meet a new adversary faster than they are.

Orange barrels line the berm of northbound Interstate 5 between Grand Mound and Maytown, where a construction project funded by money from the state gasoline tax continues.