Thurston County News

A man shot himself in the leg with his own gun Sunday after attempting to lock it up for the night.

The streets around the office building of the Thurston County Prosecutor are now open, after the Washington State Patrol bomb squad identified a suspicious package left outside as a speaker.

The lawyer for Frank's Landing smokeshop in Thurston County says the owners have made a plea bargain with federal prosecutors.

For the second consecutive year, metal shrapnel from an exploding cannon struck a Thurston County child during a Fourth of July celebration.

Washington state is being sued over a rape and murder committed by Michael John Braae, 48, a former country singer known as "Cowboy Mike," while he was on parole.

Prisoners are entitled to government records, but jailers can keep those records from actually reaching an inmate's hands if the information is deemed illegal contraband, a divided state Supreme Court ruled ...

A Lacey-area woman was in jail Thursday night after Animal Services seized 20 malnourished, dehydrated Persian cats that were being kept in cages at her residence, living in their own feces.

At a time with Thurston County is laying off workers, people here are fired up that the county has used $9,000 in taxpayer money for a barbecue grill.

When "Cowboy" Mike Braae was arrested after jumping off a 40-foot bridge into an Idaho river during a police chase..., it marked the end of what investigators say was a trail of rapes, slayings and domestic ...

Thurston County commuters might find a treasure in the county's buried trash. Intercity Transit plans to look into developing a portion of the shuttered landfill into a park-and-ride lot.

Thurston County sheriff's investigators recovered the body of an adult male in the Nisqually River today.

It was a horrifying discovery behind the walls of an upscale home near Olympia and neighbors were stunned to find out that a woman living there was hiding such a terrible secret.

Note: This story originally ran July 7, 2007. Because our 'Most Viewed stories' feature is automated and tracks page views for all of our active stories, this story has jumped back into the top 5. An 8-year-old ...

Thurston County has applied for more than $800,000 of the $1 million in state grants available to raise homes above flood stage.

The old Department of Health office was so limited on space that employees had to wash shellfish in the sink by the office coffee maker before sending them to a laboratory for toxin testing.

It's not Sunshine Week --that was in March. But, the following story about excessive government secrecy deserves a wider hearing.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office on Saturday afternoon suspended its search for a 9-year-old boy and a 32-year-old man who have been missing since Thursday evening when a small boat overturned in the ...

Officials say search crews will now use tracking dogs to look for the bodies of a man and a 9-year-old boy who are presumed dead after a small boat overturned in the Nisqually River last week.

The search was suspended Saturday for a boy and a man now presumed dead after the small boat they were in overturned in the swift-moving Nisqually River.

DOT crews on site in Thurston, Lewis counties The following work will affect traffic this week in Thurston and Lewis counties, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation.