Rainier News

Some disposal sites for storm debris will close earlier than planned because of decreased demand, a Thurston County commission news release stated.

Yelm Police are investigating a shooting in the 10200 block of Third Street Southeast in Yelm, according to a Thurston County dispatcher.

Tenino police arrested a solider at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for allegedly shooting up a Rainier home on New Year's Day to get revenge for an affair.

The sites are open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday except for the Waste and Recovery Center, which is open from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

Ice cover the trees in Rainier,Wash. on Friday, Jan. 20,2012. Thick ice brought down trees and power lines in the region overnight, following two days of snow and ice storms.

National Park spokeswoman Patti Wold says five elite mountaineers spent Friday morning searching for two climbers and two campers who were due to return from their trips at the beginning of the week.

In his appeal of a Longview Municipal Court decision, Warme acknowledges a car registered to him and his wife was photographed last May driving 31 mph in a 20 mph zone.

Of all the publications that have come and gone over the years, my favorite is still the now-defunct weekly news magazine Life, which ceased publication in 1972.