Thurston County is warning the public to avoid McIntosh Lake due to a toxic algae bloom. A lab detected a microcystins toxin ...

Julie Watts and Sarah Overbay will face each other in the general election for the Tumwater School District Board of ...

Canning the labor chief will make jobs statistics less trustworthy, but authoritarians thrive in a world of blurred fact and ...

The city of Lacey’s Proposition 1 ballot measure, which was proposed to create a Metropolitan Park District to help fund and ...

Olympia City Council incumbents pulled ahead of their opponents, while Port of Olympia candidates Anthony Hemstad and Krag ...

A recent episode of “Dateline” about the University of Idaho student murders frustrated investigators and the judge.

Comments are taken directly from the latest Thurston County Public Health and Social Services (PHSS) inspection reports, which are available for each food establishment, at the Thurston County ...

Colberg, Belinda Gail, 62, Shelton, died Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, at Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia. McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory, Shelton, 360-426-4803.

Below are results for the Aug. 5 primary election in Thurston County. For complete coverage of select races, visit our Election section. Results are expected to start coming in around 8 p.m. and are ...

The Bear Gulch Fire has been burning for nearly a month in the southeast part of the Olympic Peninsula, sending smoke drifting into the Puget Sound region. As of Tuesday, Aug. 5, the wildfire had ...

A 44-year-old woman was stabbed 15-20 times in the head, neck and torso, Lt. Paul Lower said. She was transported in critical ...

Most Seahawks veteran starters won’t play Thursday in the preseason opener vs. Pete Carroll’s Raiders. But rookie ‘ones’ will.