Time for a midweek slice of enterprise and kindness, with two happy endings and three iPads.
New Year’s resolutions aren’t worth a weevil.
Steve Apling made the 2008 Hilltop Hotties Calendar.
Tuesday morning, a solitary kid, maybe 8 or 9 years old, hood up and head down in the rain, trudged past the old McKinley Elementary School on the East Side.
Think of Gene Anderson as one of the George Baileys among us.
Santa Claus’ generosity is a matter of record, dreams and a global incentive to be good. This season, gifts are coming back to him all around the South Sound.
Tacomans are staring into a new year of 56 fewer cops to protect and serve them, thanks to a $31 million budget shortfall.Tacomans are staring into a new year of 56 fewer cops to protect and serve them, thanks to a $31 million budget shortfall.
Community policing has saved some of Tacoma’s worst neighborhoods, say the residents who no longer dive to the floor when they hear a backfire.
On the Island of Kauai, Santa arrives by barge at Nawiliwili. There, on the dock near the cruise ships’ port and under the Lihue Airport flight path, he washes the salt of a Pacific crossing off his sleigh.
This is a story of strength and coffee.
You might think there's a special place in hell for someone who would steal the cross from an altar. Members of Tacoma's Epworth LeSourd United Methodist Church don't.
Festival of Trees: Gig Harbor family has tradition born in their hour of need.
Tacoma’s Hilltop is, once again, Hilltop. It has, officially, stopped being Upper Tacoma. The City Council has recognized it. The former Upper Tacoma Business Association is buying new stationery.
National retailers have dialed the clock back to absurdity. Absurdity, it turns out, remains a comfort zone for zillions of Black Friday shoppers.
Welcome to The News Tribune’s ninth annual Sock Drive, just one toe shy of the Big Size 10.
Patti Banks’ students at University of Washington-Tacoma call her an inspiration.
Cecil Leading Horse made a big impact on his small world when he was drinking in Tacoma. While he could be charming when he was sober, he chafed every system he touched when he was drunk.
Nicholas Cecil Leading Horse was born into the Sioux Nation in Valentine, Neb., on Christmas Eve 1946. He would grow up to become Tacoma’s most expensive street drunk. From his mid 40s into his early 60s, he would cost taxpayers an estimated $2,407,100.
Pierce County people who work to fight homelessness are saying no when they want to be saying yes. They don’t have enough housing for all who need it. They see rising foreclosures, sinking budgets and winter moving in.
Any Northwesterner who owns a trowel knows Ed Hume. He taught us how to garden. For 47 years, we’ve tuned in to his radio and television shows and learned how to do right by our dirt. We trust his seeds to provide us with a reasonable chance of rainbow chard, jewel mix nasturtiums, Early Girl tomatoes. This whole Sexy Beast thing, though, is new to us.
It’s time, almost, for Tacoma’s official Christmas tree to go live.
Terry Davis and his colleagues probably do more than any other City of Tacoma employees to keep the populace happy: They’re the garbage collectors on whom the city’s sightliness and sanitation depend.
The Grim Reaper is in Lakewood, working on redemption.
University Golf Course, on the southwest corner of the Pacific Lutheran University campus, will close on Halloween. While it will sadden regulars and put its charming yet pragmatic manager out of a job, it is the right thing to do for the people in Parkland it was meant to serve: PLU students.
Any cynic would have called it a doomed civics lesson: In April 2010, the fifth-graders in Bob Hansler’s class at Kapowsin Elementary School announced their determination to build a playground at Frontier Park.
Abby is going home, thanks to a responsible breeder, a devoted veterinarian and a metal message in the dog’s silky ear.
The Great Evaporation of Commerce at 7905 S. Hosmer St. has left a gasp, and an opportunity.
Mike Mowat has pulled off the movable feat that will change the reach of FISH Food Banks of Pierce County. The 67-year-old Tacoma resident bought FISH its first mobile food bank – a semitrailer he and his friends tricked out with shelves and heat and fans.
Erik Nicholson had reason to worry when word started circulating that the Pac 40 Lounge & Restaurant would reopen.
Torre Woods shows up early for his appointments at Weyerhaeuser Hall, the newest building on the University of Puget Sound campus. The Tacoma Community College student brings his own chair to his favorite spot, a corner of the lobby with a bright view of the North End neighborhood near his home.
Three students at Pacific Lutheran University set out last fall to make a documentary about how quickly people tire of making relief donations after a disaster.
There is one great truth about landfill transfer stations: On any working day, an item of Christmas decor will be thrown onto one of the many piles of used-up stuff.
We are working with the wrong words when we talk about dealing with our neighbors’ big problems.
Three Tacoma firefighters went to September’s Reno Air Races to revel in aviation’s living history. Instead, they battled death on the tarmac.
The solution to Tacoma neighborhoods’ unsightly shopping cart buildup is right in front of the checkout line at Save-A-Lot Foods on the Hilltop.
If the old rules still applied, dozens of children would not have inaugurated the Playground by the Sound on Sunday evening. Under the old rules, communities ask politely for a playground, then wait until officials somewhere have it budgeted, designed and built.
After four days of demolition, what was left of the oldest school building in South Tacoma was nothing but a cloud of dust and a mass of bricks and broken lumber.
They were the words any shameless pie judge yearns to hear: “We have 17 entries and four judges,” said Sue Horton. “Do you all want to taste them all?”
Timothy Woodward has spent seven years in prison for assault, a devastating crime to which he pleaded guilty and for which he makes no excuses.
About five months ago, William B. Mount and a woman named Jane drove through the Salishan neighborhood on Tacoma’s East Side with a video camera and a big box of misinformation. His YouTube video has now gone viral.
Connie Hellyer sat smiling in her wheelchair, gazing at the bison grazing in the meadow across Horseshoe Lake. Inside the house she helped build, and where she once lived, 35 dear friends waited to thank her for the gift that is now Northwest Trek.
The people who work and live around the Manitou Community Center say they don’t have a problem with the concept of medical marijuana.
Maybe it started with a traveling poet at a summer festival, or people holding up “Free Hugs” posters, or women writing “You are stunning” on stickies and leaving them on restroom mirrors.
Marty Lobdell is retiring after 40 years at Pierce College, and Human Sexuality will never be the same.
Dreaming big is for the young – for people with energy and time to chase long odds. Small dreams are a better fit for the residents of Tacoma Lutheran Retirement Community in West Tacoma. There, employees who listen to and care about the residents count themselves members of the Dream Team.
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