Lacey News

Wake up, Olympia! We are falling behind. The growth in our tax base has been sluggish for the past 10 years, not just in the current recession.

A trucker facing two rape charges in Washington state has been sentenced to life in prison in Nevada for luring a mentally disabled girl and sexually assaulting her in his truck near Sparks Marina.

Voters apparently swept three longtime City Council incumbents from office, Tuesday night's early election returns show, complicating the city's desire to form its own fire department and demonstrating a dissatisfaction with the community's direction.

Photo courtesy of Bruce Dees & Associates [enlarge] The Lacey/Thurston County Regional Athletic Complex has been named project of the year by the International Northwest Park and Recreation Association.

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.

Thurston County voters are hanging on to their ballots, but Auditor Kim Wyman is sticking with her prediction of 60 percent to 61 percent turnout in Tuesday's vote-by-mail election.

Puget Sound Energy will wrap up a massive, four-month giveaway of energy-efficient lights to its customers with a two-day event this weekend in Olympia.

South Sound teachers, students and schools have had to be more flexible as most districts have experienced elevated levels of student absences because of flulike symptoms in the past few weeks.

The following are anecdotes from life in Olympia 150 years ago, taken from historical sources.

LACEY More than 50 people gathered Saturday at William A. Bush Park to take a local stand against global climate change, many of them arriving by bicycle on the nearby Chehalis Western Trail.

Posted by: Washington Department of Ecology Phone: 584-5744 Email: Website: http://www.ecy.wa.gov The Washington Department of Ecology will hold a public hearing Tuesday, Oct.

LACEY A manufacturer of "green" cleaning products plans to open a plant in Lacey early next year.

In 2006, Larson Porsche-Audi in Tacoma reported that a gray 2006 Porsche Cayenne, a luxury sport utility vehicle, had been stolen off the lot.

The Thurston County Sheriff tells KIRO 7 that the gunman in three frightening shotgun robberies in Thurston and Pierce counties is under arrest.

An 11-year-old girl and her dad are being called heroes for catching a man accused of luring children in Thurston County.

Lacey police arrested a 44-year-old Olympia man Sunday in the 3700 block of College Street on suspicion of two counts of luring and two counts of indecent exposure.

A free medical clinic for Thurston County residents lacking the resources to combat chronic disease has opened at the Union Gospel Mission in downtown Olympia.

Will Washington state extend or roll back the civil rights of same-sex partners that were granted by the Legislature this year? That is the question Referendum 71 asks voters in the Nov.

Children in remote Afghanistan villages will see more clearly, thanks to a local Lions Club and a Mark Morris High School graduate serving there.

Two men who used a 12-gauge shotgun to rob two stores and terrorize the clerks in last 36 hours are on the loose in Thurston County after casing a Lacey Chevron early Tuesday morning.