East-Olympia News

Renewed heavy rains and strong damaging winds were expected to blow through South Sound before relenting this morning, the National Weather Service predicted Thursday night.

Thurston County will offer two free classes next week to teach residents how to put together emergency-preparedness meetings for their neighborhoods.

The late-summer phone message from Carolyn Lattin, my East Olympia neighbor and the owner of Lattin's Country Cider Mill, was a pleasant surprise and included an offer I couldn't refuse.

Customers lined up to hug Carolyn Lattin as she prepared to open for the apple festival this morning at Lattin's Country Cider Mill on Rich Road.

A woman has been killed and a man wounded in a shooting at an Olympia farm market.

EAST OLYMPIA Radon, an odorless gas that can cause lung cancer, has been discovered in a house in East Olympia, the first documented case in Thurston County, according to the state's top radon official.

Responding to mounting public opposition, the county Auditor's Office reversed its decision to suspend household delivery of the booklet, which contains information about candidates and issues.