Thurston County News

A man was seriously injured late Sunday when the car he driving was broadsided by a suspected drunk driver who was trying to get away from police.

Firefighters responded to a fully involved blaze at a home in the 19500 block of Johnson Road Southeast in Yelm about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Thurston County Fire Protection District 17, Bald Hills Fire Department.

After a week long trial, a jury awarded a woman $75,000 for a dog bite sustained in 2009 in Tenino, Wash.

The Thurston County auditor has announced a three-day special filing period seeking candidates for three offices that did not draw candidates for the upcoming election.

The Olympian reports the woman was seeking payment for medical expenses, plus pain, inconvenience, emotional stress, scaring and other general damages.

A boy in Lacey says a stranger offered him $100 to get in his car near his school Thursday morning, and now police are swarming the neighborhood trying to find the man responsible.

Detectives with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a 19-year-old former lifeguard at Great Wolf Lodge on suspicion of third-degree child rape, court records state.

Thousands of Defense Department employees in Pierce and Thurston counties still face unpaid time off this summer, but not as much as the Pentagon initially proposed.

In 1992, Angela Arellano, then a 19-year-old Marine based in Okinawa, told military police that a noncommissioned officer had raped her after an evening spent watching a football game on television.

A 27-year-old Olympia woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to attempted first-degree murder and first-degree murder in connection with her former Behavioral Health Resources counselor's strangulation death at his Sunset Beach Drive home on April 29.

Lia Yera Tricomo, 27, appears in Thurston County Superior Court Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by video.

More than 426,000 active Washington concealed pistol licenses are now in circulation, up a staggering 15,289 in the month since Examiner last checked with the state Department of Licensing , confirming what various sources in law enforcement say about the volume of applications and renewals, and the work overload to process them.

The opening of Thurston County’s new $43.5 million jail will be delayed again due to hiring and technological delays.

$158,645 to the Family Support Center to turn the city's Smith Building into a shelter and day center for homeless families.

Residents of unincorporated Thurston County can apply for a reimbursement of up to $200 for plants and compost used to install an improved rain garden.

Who would think this soft landscape, with its undulating blue waves of wildflowers, flitting butterflies and calls of meadowlark, could be the scene of such battle.

I was disappointed to read the port commissioners' answer to citizens who are opposing using our port to bring in fracking materials for use in extracting oil in North Dakota.

This week is public service recognition week. In a community where public employees make up more than 40 percent of the workforce, it is hard to imagine Thurston County without the influence of dedicated public servants.

Thurston County is seeking residents and businesses to help draft language for an ordinance to reduce the estimated 90 million plastic shopping bags used countywide each year.

After a two-week break to refresh and hear from constituents, state lawmakers will return to the Capitol Campus on Monday to finish the work they couldn't accomplish in 105 days: passing a budget.