The Bonney Lake City Council isn’t lowering a developer fee as a way to jumpstart residential and commercial construction. At least not yet.
The Sumner School District has announced makeup days for weather.
Bonney Lake soon might join other Pierce County communities in lowering the amount developers pay to offset traffic impacts. The city is considering it as a way to jump-start construction and expand its tax base after a slowdown during the recession.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist has ruled that two police officers were justified when they shot and killed a 38-year-old woman who had shot at a third officer near Bonney Lake in November.
Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist has ruled that two officers were justified when they shot and killed a 38-year-old woman near Bonney Lake in November.
The mayors of Bonney Lake and Sumner say they hope to preserve a commuter bus route that runs between their two East Pierce County cities.
After five days cloaked in military secrecy, the soldier suspected in a massacre of 16 Afghan civilians has finally been identified, adding a critical detail to the still-sketchy portrait just beginning to emerge.
The City of Bonney Lake plans to withdraw its appeal of the controversial Orton Junction land-use decision as long as the nearby City of Sumner approves an agreement for expansion of its wastewater treatment plant.
The parents of the Bonney Lake High School Class of 2012 are hosting a fundraiser for BLHS Safe and Sober Grad Night celebration, as well as raising funds to help replace the Bonney Lake Senior Center’s aging van.
One student worries that her family’s financial struggles may hurt her chance to participate in sports. Another talks of suicide.
A group charged with redrawing Pierce Transit’s boundaries approved a map Thursday night that excludes several communities in east Pierce County and will cost the agency millions of dollars in sales-tax revenue.
Bonney Lake police on Wednesday arrested a man suspected of shooting at his wife Tuesday night as she left their Bonney Lake home.
Investigators have arrested a man suspected of shooting at his wife Tuesday night as she left their Bonney Lake home.
A public hearing on Pierce Transit’s new proposed boundaries is set for 6 p.m. Thursday at the agency’s training center, 3720 96th St. S.W., Lakewood.
Bonney Lake High School’s musical production of “Annie” features 33 student actors and 10 stage crew members and will include accompaniment from a live band. It shows at 7 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Performing Arts Center, 1707 Main St. in Sumner.
Lake Tapps’ annual spring refill is set to begin as early as March 12.
Bonney Lake and Sumner high schools’ Special Olympics basketball teams will participate in the district’s Pack the Gym event to benefit local food banks. Special Olympics basketball players will participate in individual skills competition and play a full game at the event starting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Bonney Lake High School gym, 10920 199th Ave. Court E. Admission is free and a donation of canned food is encouraged.
East Pierce County was abuzz Thursday with talk about renewed plans for a master-planned community formerly known as Cascadia, now named Tehaleh.
Two decades after it was conceived, Western Washington’s largest planned community will open this summer. It will be called Tehaleh, though Pierce County residents will be forgiven for hanging on to the name Cascadia for a while longer.
Bonney Lake’s library is closed through Feb. 26 while a central customer service desk is installed. During the closure, which started Monday, storytimes will be at City Hall, 19306 Bonney Lake Blvd.
Residents and officials debated Tuesday whether it would be fair for Pierce County to charge all residents the same tax rate to create and operate a new flood-control zone district.
Bonney Lake’s library will be closed Feb. 13-26 while a central customer service desk is installed. The new desk will allow library staffers to answer questions and assist customers from a central location instead of spread out around the 6,480-square-foot library.
Puget Sound Energy crews hope to turn the lights back on for more customers today.
The controversial Orton Junction project south of Sumner has been hit with a second appeal, this time from the City of Bonney Lake.
One man was headed to the hospital to pick up his girlfriend and newborn baby. The other was going home after running errands.
The months-long process of redrawing Pierce Transit’s boundary lines is under way, and a new draft map leaves out large chunks of eastern and western Pierce County.
The YMCA planned for Sumner likely will include a warm-water recreation pool, exercise equipment, a room for community functions, a teen center, an art center, and a gym with space for basketball, volleyball and other sports.
Chuck Romeo has a dock on Lake Tapps. And he should be able to keep it under a new policy the Cascade Water Alliance, owner of the East Pierce reservoir, is expected to adopt early next year.
A Mountain View Middle School student was expelled Friday after he admitted writing a bomb threat to get out of a test, Bonney Lake police said.
Mountain View Middle School was placed on a modified lockdown today after a someone found a note indicating a bomb was in the building.
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