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

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

Firefighters extinguished a brush fire that threatened multiple structures in south Thurston County Monday afternoon. The ...

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

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

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

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." ...

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 ...

Authorities conclude search in Idaho forest for Travis Decker, suspect in the tragic murder of his three daughters near ...

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 ...