Shelton News

A man who was sleeping in the back of his pickup truck when it was stolen in Olympia is worried about his cat that was also in the truck.

A Mason County sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a man who was driving his truck toward the officer.

Sheyanne Baker was sitting down to dinner with her husband when she heard someone at the door.

Karen Smith from Shelton, Wash., was shocked when she opened a package and found a red velvet pouch containing the dog tags of U.S. Army veteran Randal L. Irwin, who died last year, and a small inscribed urn.

A 53-year-old Lacey woman was killed and four Shelton residents were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 6:09 p.m. Friday at 6225 Hawks Prairie Road, according to the Washington State Patrol.

House Republicans offered a "fund education first" budget Thursday, highlighting what they depicted as $580 million more for K-12 public schools than Gov.

A third-party comparative analysis by blogger Brian Ahier posted to the Government Health IT website illustrates that T-System ranks eighth on a list of the top 10 electronic health records vendors in terms of facility attestations.

Army Maj. Jonathan Steinbach, an aviator with the Washington National Guard's 1st Battalion, 168th General Support Aviation Regiment assigned to 3rd Army/U.S. Army Central Aviation Task Force Raptors here, took an unusual route to the cockpit.

SEATTLE Tacoma Police were locked in a standoff with a Department of Corrections officer near a school Monday.

Tom Gresham's Gun Talk welcomes KMAS AM and KMAS FM in Shelton, Washington, as the latest affiliates to add the nationally-syndicated radio talk show to their schedule.

The Pierce County Superior Court lawsuit alleged that a paroled child rapist named Danny Dorosky Sr.

The state will pay a former Mason County woman $2.35 million to settle her lawsuit alleging that the departments of Corrections and Social and Health Services failed a supervise a sex offender who abused her, beginning when she was 10 years old.

Traffic backs up on Highway 16 after the Washington State Patrol closed the Narrows Bridge at about noon Friday.

Brad Shannon maintains this blog. He is political editor at The Olympian and can be reached at 360-753-1688 or bshannon@theolympian.com . Democrat Denny Heck of Olympia is postponing his formal campaign kickoff for the 10th Congressional District that had been planned Saturday at the Olympia Ballroom.

Lynn Shelton's "Your Sister's Sister," which made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall and is screening this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, will open the 38th annual Seattle festival on May 17 at McCaw Hall.

Democrat Denny Heck is kicking off his campaign for the new 10th district congressional seat this weekend with events Saturday in Olympia and Sunday in Lakewood.

Several school districts -- including Olympia, Tumwater, Griffin, Rainier, Rochester, Yelm, Tenino and North Thurston -- are closed today due to the snow.

TACOMA — As the South Puget Sound wakes today to fresh snow, the National Weather Service warns that more severe winter weather could be on the way.