The city has received complaints from neighbors who allege nearly 20 houses in the neighborhood sit empty most of the year.

The Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife confirmed the first recorded sighting of a critically endangered seabird in Thurston County.

A few lucky Olympia residents spotted a single tufted puffin in Eld Inlet last week, making it an extremely rare sighting for ...

A 15-year-old Tenino driver was hospitalized after crashing on U.S. 12 in Lewis County Tuesday afternoon. The incident ...

July 15: 45 red points; 0 blue points. Rice was cooled while in a covered pan on the lower shelf of a reach-in cooler. Cooling TCS foods must be in a shallow, uncovered pan on the top two shelves of a ...

Aubol, Jackie, 75, Shelton, died Tuesday, July 14, 2026, at Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup. McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory, Shelton, 360-426-4803. Baril, Jennifer, 73, Yelm, died ...

Howard University Athletics has entered a multi-year partnership with McDonald's, bringing together one of the nation's leading HBCU athletic programs and local restaurant owners throughout the region ...

Thurston County news July 21 included a fatal car fire, a Thurston County commissioner raising concerns about workplace complaints, and a National Weather Service head advisory. H ...

Commissioner Rachel Grant said she’s spoke to 19 current and former employees about workplace concerns over the past several weeks.

Emergency responders have reportedly been dispatched to a car-related fatality near Tumwater, The Olympian has learned. About noon Tuesday, the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office, East Olympia Fire ...

A 26-year-old Olympia man, who died while in custody during a Thurston County Sheriff’s Office investigation into the death of his father, has been identified, the Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office ...