Yelm News

Firefighters responded to a fully involved blaze at a home in the 19500 block of Johnson Road Southeast in Yelm about 4:30 p.m. Sunday, according to Thurston County Fire Protection District 17, Bald Hills Fire Department.

Thurston County is seeking residents and businesses to help draft language for an ordinance to reduce the estimated 90 million plastic shopping bags used countywide each year.

It took nearly 37 years from the time Richard Sipe first proposed to Juli Cummings for the couple to settle down together in Seattle.

To help combat the issue, Target Zero Thurston County is targeting house parties and conducting compliance checks throughout the county this summer with the goal of keeping young impaired drivers off the road.

The Junior League of Olympia knows that the first step in combating any social problem is to bring it out of the shadows.

A local man is accused of fraudulently claiming ownership of two unoccupied homes one in Olympia, the other in Yelm by filing "affidavits of adverse possession" in the Thurston County Auditor's Office.