Olympia News

Should we make Olympia more vital and sustainable, or let downtown stall while growth sprawls? Olympia faces that clear-cut choice with the isthmus height amendment.

In another sign of the slowing South Sound economy, Thurston County taxable retail sales have fallen for the first time in 13 years, dropping 1.3 percent in the first quarter of 2008 compared with the same ...

A jury has awarded nearly $4.4 million to the family of a man who was killed by his neighbor in Rainier.

South Sound residents don't have to visit Washington's old-growth rain forests to get a glimpse of the state's living history.

The old Olympia Beer brewery that has been closed since 2003 may be the next mall coming to Tumwater.

The economy may be slowing down, but the number of Washington students preparing to go to college will continue to be strong, according to the state's four-year universities, which are preparing to ask the ...

Airlift Northwest hasn't had a serious accident since a helicopter taking off from Providence St.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office reports three robbers made off with $10,500 worth of cigarettes in a break-in early today at an Olympia smoke shop.

Road-construction season has arrived along with summer's warm temperatures, and a multitude of projects are planned in Thurston County in the coming week: Tumwater: Installation of a lift station at Schmidt ...

Olympia police are looking for a man who allegedly stole a woman's purse Saturday at a bus stop in west Olympia, then left his wallet - and his pants - behind.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A 17-year-old boy staying at a Tumwater motel was stung by a scorpion and had to be treated at a hospital Wendy Holman says she was told her son, Kyle, was the first patient to be treated for ...

A $12 million restoration effort in the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge begins Monday as crews work to re-establish more than 21 miles of sloughs and channels in the delta between Tacoma and Olympia.

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community has celebrated Pride every summer since the Stonewall riots of 1969.

A fight at Long Lake Park that sent one man to the hospital after he was pistol-whipped in the head Tuesday night started when members of one group refused to give a member of another group a beer, court papers ...

A self-proclaimed nihilist group hurled paint-filled lightbulbs at a business owned by Jeff Kingsbury, then posted its opposition to his political views on an anarchist Web site, the Olympia city councilman ...

Thurston County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Jodi Erikson-Muldrew is running for the vacant Thurston County District Judge position that was created after the recent death of C.L. "Kip" Stilz.

An Olympia man will open a resource center outside Olympia next month for patients who use medical marijuana and for those who want to learn more about the medicinal use of cannabis.

Walk up the stairs above Frankie's bar in Olympia, and it's like stepping back to 2005.

An Olympia man is in jail this morning in connection with a vehicle theft from a landscaping company over the weekend, according to the Thurston County Sheriff's Office.

West Olympia residents are being warned to keep an eye on young children and pets after two sightings of a cougar were reported early Monday morning.