Ashford, Washington

A river flow gauge on the Nisqually River neared record levels on Wednesday morning before it appears to have malfunctioned.

Sex offender registers as transient The Thurston County Sheriff's Office is notifying the public that Level 2 sex offender James L. Bramer has registered to live in the county as a transient.

An Ashford woman was killed in a one-car accident between Graham and Eatonville on Friday night, the Washington State Patrol reported.

Editor's note: This is the final story of a two-part series on fire lookouts in Lewis County.

The Gifford Pinchot National Forest is calling for volunteers to join its 10th annual Pick Up the Pinchot events scheduled for this Saturday.

The bough won't break at Cedar Creek Treehouse in Ashford, Wash. When I woke up just before sunrise, the only clue that I had been sleeping 50 feet in the air was the giant Western Red Cedar tree trunk right ...

The Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer's Office announced recently it is conducting physical inspections of residential properties in eastern Pierce County.

The 10th annual Pick Up the Pinchot cleanup effort on Gifford Pinchot National Forest has been scheduled for Sept.

Tony Mudd and his 13-year-old daughter, Lexi, recently returned from an awesome journey.

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports two small earthquakes occurred north of Ashford, Wash., in Pierce County.

Enlarge image PHOTOS BY DEAN J. KOEPFLER/THE NEWS TRIBUNE Deer graze on the 1.5-mile-long levee that protects Ashford from the Nisqually River.

ROXBURY -- Krista Marie Lindstedt, daughter of Gary and Shirley Lindstedt of Landing, and Robert Jeffrey Tannery exchanged marriage vows in a ceremony at Alexander's Country Inn at Mount Rainier, Ashford, Wash.

The long-in-coming groundbreaking for the 30-plus acre Ashford Community Park is set for Saturday afternoon in this Mount Rainier gateway town.

Reporter staff Thirty Islanders entered the 25th annual Ride Around Mt. Rainier in One Day race held last Thursday.

There's a new unofficial Mount Rainier speed king. Twenty-nine-year-old Justin Merle took 4 hours, 49 minutes, 35 seconds this week to go from Paradise to the 14,411-foot summit and back down again.

Thanks to near perfect conditions, a Pierce County man now holds the unofficial record for speed climbing Mount Rainier.

We are just a week away from the biggest outdoor camping event of the year -- July Fourth -- and many of the higher-elevation facilities in our area are still closed by heavy snow retention.

The public is being invited to comment on the environmental assessment for a proposal to repair or reroute one mile of the flood-damaged Glacier Basin Trail in the White River Valley at Mount Rainier National ...

Posted June 12th, 2008 by Kurt Repanshek Beginning June 21 you'll be able to take a shuttle bus from Ashford, Washington, to Longmire in Mount Rainier National Park.