A proposal to reduce the number of days to legally ignite Fourth of July fireworks in unincorporated Pierce County went down to defeat with a thud Tuesday.
Pierce County District Court Judge Jack Nevin worked in military courts all over the world during his 33-year career as an Army Reserve attorney and judge. None was quite like the court he visited last month as an independent observer at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A county salary commission that was put into code five years ago will finally be formed today when the Pierce County Council is expected to confirm 10 appointees.
Legal dominoes surrounding Pierce County Assessor-Treasurer Dale Washam are falling, and the bills are approaching the seven-figure mark.
During this month’s snow and ice storm, Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy decided to pay about 2,000 county workers their normal pay for the two days she ordered them not to report to work.
Fort Steilacoom Park will become a true city park at the conclusion of a new three-year agreement with Pierce County to be finalized in the next month or so. The handover is not a surprise. Since 2008, the Pierce County Council has expressed its intent to cut costs by transferring parks and open spaces to local agencies.
A malfunction with Pierce County’s emergency notification system caused 1,500 people to receive the same text message 30 times Tuesday morning.
The Pierce County economy took a step back in December as its unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent after several months in which the jobless rate had fallen, according to state Employment Security Department data released Tuesday.
The snow and ice storm that paralyzed much of Pierce County last week was not only dangerous. It was expensive. The county’s costs for snow and ice removal for the one storm surpassed more than $500,000.
In Frederickson, at Pierce County’s emergency operations center for roads, Kendal Willits looks up at an electronic map of the county’s 28 zones and on the map moves little symbols indicating his crews at work.
Some Pierce County Superior Court judges say state cuts in supervision of felons the last few years have made their courts too busy with offenders who remain under the court’s review, and could increase the risk to public safety if those offenders commit new crimes.
Forty Pierce County vehicles are clearing primary arterial routes today and hope to shift over to secondary arterials and residential roads tonight, said Bruce Wagner, of Pierce County Public Works and Utilities.
Sharon Benson, a real estate agent and member of the Pierce County Planning Commission, announced that she is running for the Pierce County Council seat being vacated by term-limited Tim Farrell.
The Pierce County Council stayed true to its Republican majority Tuesday by electing Joyce McDonald of Puyallup as its new chairwoman.
Sharon Benson, a Realtor and member of the Pierce County Planning Commission, announced today she is running for the Pierce County Council seat being vacated by term-limited Tim Farrell.
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