Olympia News

State officials say that Olympia's Capitol Lake is infested with invasive New Zealand mudsnails.

Scientists have confirmed that Capitol Lake in Olympia is infested with aquatic invasive New Zealand mudsnails.

A man armed with a handgun robbed two women who were dropping off a deposit bag at the Bank of America parking lot at 210 West Fifth Avenue at about 11 a.m. today, according to Olympia police.

OLYMPIA More than 100 people gathered to remember Shaun Allen Peterson at noon Monday, just footsteps away from where the 40-year-old Olympia man was found dead a week ago.

A South Sound boy has a "starring role" in an episode of a cable television program that airs today.

Nov. 22--OLYMPIA -- About 150 current and former employees of Crown Beverage Packaging celebrated 50 years of manufacturing metal beer and soft-drink cans Saturday at the company's plant on Fones Road.

Olympia won't get its first city-owned parking garage anytime soon. The Olympia City Council scrapped its selection process for a developer for a parking structure Tuesday night because of concerns about its cost in the bad economy, some council members said.

Tim Eyman lost a round in court Friday over his effort to make state elections officials answer questions about their policy for making initiative-signers' names public.

An Olympia man with a history that a prosecutor called 'horrendous' was sentenced to more than 50 years in prison this week for his leadership in a cocaine ring and arranging the murder of a police informant.

Police have identified a suspect in the shooting death of a man whose body was found Monday on a street in Olympia.

An Olympia man was sentenced to life in prison under the state's 'three strikes' law today for raping and assaulting a woman who offered him a ride home April 12.

Police are searching for the man they believed fatally shot a 40-year-old man in downtown Olympia Monday morning.

OLYMPIA The Olympia School District will float three possibilities for a February ballot measure that could pay for building improvements throughout the district.

Olympia police have found the silver-colored 1993 Jeep Cherokee that they had sought in connection with the shooting death of an Olympia man Monday morning on Capitol Way.

The Thurston County Economic Development Council faces $10,000 in possible budget cuts, which could undercut its efforts to retain and expand business opportunities in South Sound, as well as recruit, officials with the 27-year-old organization said Thursday.

A man is dead after a shooting early Monday at Capitol Way and 18th Avenue in Olympia's South Capitol neighborhood, and police are investigating it as a homicide.

Olympia Police responded to several calls reporting the sound of gun shots in the 1700 block of Capitol Way at 2:37 a.m. Monday.

An Ohio woman is under investigation in the theft of H1N1 influenza vaccine from a Thurston County hospice center.

Olympia police have received two reports of a suspicious person trespassing or approaching children in the past three days.

OLYMPIA A donation of 1,000 pounds of food to the Thurston County Food Bank goes a long way for an organization that has seen demand for its services increase about 20 percent in the past year.