Lewis County News

Congratulations to the good people of Vader, Washington , whose "boil-water" advisory ended today! Just in time for Thanksgiving.

The man accused of shooting another man with a crossbow in Pe Ell told police he just wanted to scare him.

The man accused of shooting another man with a crossbow in Pe Ell told police he just wanted to scare him.

A Washington State Patrol trooper and a Napavine police officer arrested an Olympia man on suspicion of driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning after an alert Lewis County driver called 911, according to a news release.

A Washington State Patrol trooper and a Napavine police officer arrested an Olympia man on suspicion of driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning after an alert Lewis County driver called 911, according to a news release.

The National Weather Service will issue a wind advisory for this evening, with sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph and gusts of more than 50 mph winds blowing through the Olympia area.

A Lewis County man suspected of shooting another man with a crossbow has turned himself in, ending a two-day manhunt for him, officials said.

Police said a Pe Ell man was shot with a crossbow and then stabbed by a man who waited outside the victim's home Wednesday night.

Now under fire from outside news sources, Lewis County Deputy Coroner Carmen Brunton said the office is ready to give its side of the story.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate passed a military construction bill Tuesday that includes nearly $399 million for bases in Washington state, with about one-third of the funding targeted for Fort Lewis.

A Spokane mother is fighting western Washington officials more than ten years after her daughter's death.

In Centralia's Washington Park stands a statue commemorating the Nov. 11, 1919, deaths of four American Legionnaires who died "on peaceful parade." But a mural overlooking the park tells a different story of those deaths a story that went largely untold for nearly 80 years but echoes to this day.

Lewis County businesses and residents got their first look today at the new Celebration of Life tree at the Thrift Shop in Centralia at 222 S. Pearl Street.Visiting Nurses Foundation and Assured Home Health and Hospice originally sponsored a Hospice Tree.

Lewis County's Terry Wilson gives guys like these a bad name. The job of a coroner can't be easy.

The ruling by the Lewis County coroner that a former state trooper committed suicide was inaccurate and "arbitrary and capricious," a jury has concluded.

A hunter from Lake Tapps is OK after spending a night lost in the woods near Packwood in Lewis County.

HOODSPORT About a year ago, following a routine mammogram, Barbara Gray was diagnosed with breast cancer.

ERIC SCHWARTZ; The Chronicle Published November 07, 2009 Comments Lewis County officials were able to largely escape layoffs while making budget cuts in 2008-09, but they warn that they won't be so lucky in 2010.

Lewis County Sheriff Steve Mansfield days a Toledo homeowner was justified in shooting and killing a suspected burglar.

A civil trial began in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday to determine whether a coroner's determination that Ronda Reynolds committed suicide is accurate.