Thurston County News

The future of Bailey’s Motor Inn on Martin Way in Olympia is in doubt after its former owner Tony Kim confirmed Wednesday that he has sold the property and will shut down lodging operations there on May 31.

That's the thinking behind a new event coming to Thurston County, which was announced Wednesday as part of the Olympia Lacey Tumwater Visitor & Convention Bureau's annual meeting at the Red Lion Hotel Olympia.

Thurston County prosecutors have charged a 19-year-old former lifeguard at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound with second-degree rape and third-degree child rape for an alleged sexual assault on a 14-year-old girl who was a guest at the waterpark resort.

The Thurston County commissioners approved a tobacco ban that will prohibit smoking, e-cigarettes and tobacco products on county grounds starting next year, according to a news release.

It's more than a little disappointing that 65 percent of this fall's contests for public office have already been decided.

A man was seriously injured late Sunday when the car he driving was broadsided by a suspected drunk driver who was trying to get away from police.

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.

After a week long trial, a jury awarded a woman $75,000 for a dog bite sustained in 2009 in Tenino, Wash.

The Thurston County auditor has announced a three-day special filing period seeking candidates for three offices that did not draw candidates for the upcoming election.

The Olympian reports the woman was seeking payment for medical expenses, plus pain, inconvenience, emotional stress, scaring and other general damages.

A boy in Lacey says a stranger offered him $100 to get in his car near his school Thursday morning, and now police are swarming the neighborhood trying to find the man responsible.

Detectives with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office have arrested a 19-year-old former lifeguard at Great Wolf Lodge on suspicion of third-degree child rape, court records state.

Thousands of Defense Department employees in Pierce and Thurston counties still face unpaid time off this summer, but not as much as the Pentagon initially proposed.

In 1992, Angela Arellano, then a 19-year-old Marine based in Okinawa, told military police that a noncommissioned officer had raped her after an evening spent watching a football game on television.

A 27-year-old Olympia woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to attempted first-degree murder and first-degree murder in connection with her former Behavioral Health Resources counselor's strangulation death at his Sunset Beach Drive home on April 29.

Lia Yera Tricomo, 27, appears in Thurston County Superior Court Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by video.

More than 426,000 active Washington concealed pistol licenses are now in circulation, up a staggering 15,289 in the month since Examiner last checked with the state Department of Licensing , confirming what various sources in law enforcement say about the volume of applications and renewals, and the work overload to process them.

The opening of Thurston County’s new $43.5 million jail will be delayed again due to hiring and technological delays.

$158,645 to the Family Support Center to turn the city's Smith Building into a shelter and day center for homeless families.

Residents of unincorporated Thurston County can apply for a reimbursement of up to $200 for plants and compost used to install an improved rain garden.