Thurston County has temporarily banned residential yard waste burning and all land clearing burns due to fire safety concerns ...

A domestic violence altercation in Thurston County leaves one victim hospitalized after being run over by an impaired driver.

Roughly 15 to 20 members of Teamsters Local 252 began picketing at 6 a.m. outside the Thurston County Waste and Recovery ...

TNT high school sports reporter Jon Manley has covered high school football games all over the South Sound. He ranks the best ...

Many residents in Lacey will have their trash service disrupted due to a strike kicking off Wednesday morning.

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — A man was rescued by Coast Guard crews from the Deschutes River overnight.

A union representing trash collectors will begin their strike early this morning, disrupting trash services for “tens of thousands of residents” in Thurston County, the union wrote in a press memo.

The actions are part of what the Teamsters union called an aggressive expansion of "a nationwide strike for fair contracts." ...

Members of Teamsters Local 252 hit the picket lines at Thurston County’s Waste and Recovery Center in Lacey at 6 a.m.

LACEY, Wash. — Waste management workers in Washington state joined a multi-state strike against Republic Services, one of the country's largest sanitation companies, disrupting garbage collection ...

Contracts between the state government and public-employee unions — agreements that involve taxpayer money and employees who work for the people — require transparency. Instead, the Washington Supreme ...

Should members of Congress be subject to mental-acuity standards? U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez thinks so — as do many ...