Times are tight, and you would think Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza and Prosecuting Attorney Jon Tunheim would have more productive ways to allocate their offices' limited resources than chasing after medical marijuana patients.

A fire near Grand Mound burned a single-wide mobile home, at least one vehicle and the brush surrounding the home Monday afternoon, according to Thurston County dispatchers.

A husband and wife who run Triple D's, a marijuana collective just south of Grand Mound, have been charged with 27 crimes each.

KNDU reports the home was fully engulfed in flames about 3:30 a.m. Monday when firefighters arrived at Columbia Mobile Village.

High winds have descended on the storm-weary Pacific Northwest and are expected to continue gusting today after a winter storm left a tangle of fallen trees and damaged power lines.

High winds have descended on the storm-weary Pacific Northwest and are expected to continue gusting today after a winter storm left a tangle of fallen trees and damaged power lines.

Thurston County Sheriff John Snaza and Undersheriff Tim Braniff toured a snow and ice-covered county Thursday, helping to push stuck cars out of the snow or clear debris from various roadways.

All six lanes of Interstate 5 between Centralia in Lewis County and Grand Mound in Thurston County are closed Friday morning due to power lines over the roadway.