Fort Lewis News

Some of the U.S. Army's best spies recently departed Fort Lewis for Iraq, where they will help teach the Iraqi military how to play spy games at a high level too.

A Fort Lewis soldier has died in Iraq -- during her third deployment to the region.

Pfc. Brian Russell Bates loved bragging about his home state of Louisiana, and never tired of telling his fellow soldiers about how he had survived Hurricane Katrina.

President Obama's decision on deploying more troops to Afghanistan has been complicated by an ugly reality: suicide.

All the criminal cases filed in the wake of the Port of Olympia protests nearly two years ago were resolved Friday after eight demonstrators signed agreements that could lead to dismissal of their charges.

President Barack Obama, center, Army Assistant Judge Advocate Maj. Gen. Daniel Wright, second from right and Army Special Forces Commander Brig.

The following projects are expected to affect traffic in the coming week, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation, the city of Olympia and Fort Lewis.

Presidential salute for Fort Lewis soldier: President Obama salutes Thursday as an Army team carries a case with remains of Sgt.

Though Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry is fighting deportation from the United States he still flies an American flag at his west Yakima home.

It was the first mission Specialist Mike Ballard had ever gone on in Afghanistan.

Members of the 143rd Montana National Guard unit are back on American soil and just days away from returning home.

The family of a Vancouver man says he was one of the eight Fort Lewis soldiers killed in a single day in Afghanistan.

American troops killed in two separate bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan are believed to be from the 5th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, based at Fort Lewis.

Eight American service members were killed Tuesday in insurgent attacks in southern Afghanistan, a focal point of the U.S. military campaign to combat the resurgent Taliban.

A military exercise involving special operations units training across the state began Monday, raising the possibility of noisy activities at Fort Lewis.

Pierce Countya s apartment vacancy rose dramatically in the third quarter of this year, likely caused by an outflow of renters being deployed by the military to the Middle East, said Tom Cain of Apartment Insights, a Seattle-based apartment research firm.

An attorney representing two convicted soldiers held in the Fort Lewis, Wash., jail is accusing military officials of videotaping strip searches of inmates there; posting female military police to watch his clients being strip-searched, showering and using the bathroom; and hampering protected communication and access to his clients.

Members of a Fort Lewis engineer brigade who returned last month from a yearlong deployment in which they oversaw construction projects across Iraq were officially welcomed home at a ceremony Friday morning.

A 22-year-old Fort Lewis-based soldier serving in Afghanistan for just over three months has died.

Fort Lewis officials are reporting another death in Afghanistan. Specialist Kyle Coumas of Lockeford, CA was killed from wounds suffered in an attack on his vehicle.