Thurston County News

Alcohol and speed were factors in an accident that killed two people in Thurston County, said Washington State Patrol.

Thurston County's unemployment rate jumped in June to 5.7 percent, up from 5.1 percent in May, the result of a cooling economy brought about by a slower housing market and higher gasoline prices, according to ...

A jury decided Wednesday that Donald Skewis must pay Scott Keith's family $4.37 million in damages after ruling that there was not enough evidence to prove that Skewis' fatal shooting of Keith on McIntosh Lane ...

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

Investigators with the Thurston County Narcotics Task Force seized 2 kilograms of cocaine worth about $150,000 Monday during a stop of a sport utility vehicle in a hotel parking lot off of Tumwater Boulevard.

More apartments and rentals for low-income families will be added to Thurston County in the next five years, according to a plan commissioners approved Monday.

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.

Metal shrapnel from an exploding cannon injured three people, including an 11-year-old boy, during a Fourth of July gathering in South Thurston County.

These 12 candidates have filed for a vacant Thurston County District Court judge seat.

Five men broke into a North Seattle home Saturday night, Seattle police said. The men entered the house at 11705 Meridian Avenue North after 10 p.m. Saturday.

A man shot himself in the leg with his own gun Sunday after attempting to lock it up for the night.

The streets around the office building of the Thurston County Prosecutor are now open, after the Washington State Patrol bomb squad identified a suspicious package left outside as a speaker.

The lawyer for Frank's Landing smokeshop in Thurston County says the owners have made a plea bargain with federal prosecutors.

For the second consecutive year, metal shrapnel from an exploding cannon struck a Thurston County child during a Fourth of July celebration.

Washington state is being sued over a rape and murder committed by Michael John Braae, 48, a former country singer known as "Cowboy Mike," while he was on parole.

Prisoners are entitled to government records, but jailers can keep those records from actually reaching an inmate's hands if the information is deemed illegal contraband, a divided state Supreme Court ruled ...

A Lacey-area woman was in jail Thursday night after Animal Services seized 20 malnourished, dehydrated Persian cats that were being kept in cages at her residence, living in their own feces.

At a time with Thurston County is laying off workers, people here are fired up that the county has used $9,000 in taxpayer money for a barbecue grill.

When "Cowboy" Mike Braae was arrested after jumping off a 40-foot bridge into an Idaho river during a police chase..., it marked the end of what investigators say was a trail of rapes, slayings and domestic ...

Thurston County commuters might find a treasure in the county's buried trash. Intercity Transit plans to look into developing a portion of the shuttered landfill into a park-and-ride lot.