At least the waiting is over. That’s small consolation for friends and family of 12 Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldiers who spent much of the past two years ensnared in a sprawling war crimes investigation.
Some tax-weary property owners on the west side of the Narrows say they’re tired of being asked for more money, especially in tough times. But supporters of the Peninsula School District’s proposed operations levy say local tax dollars are needed to continue supplementing state and federal funds.
The husband and wife from Joint Base Lewis-McChord had a novel approach to parenting. They left their two boys, ages 3 and 4, in a van with the engine running and shopped for 90 minutes at a Tacoma sex shop.
The state Supreme Court, prodded into action by a 2009 case involving a reprimanded Federal Way judge, is weighing a rule to underscore that court administrative records are public.
A judge has ordered a cease-fire at a shooting range near Bremerton until it complies with all county land-use requirements.
At Saturday’s memorial service for Charlie and Braden Powell, the tears started when the children in the Life Christian school choir filed onstage and launched into a sweet, innocent version of “Amazing Grace.”
The Puyallup School Board is zeroing in on a replacement for retiring Superintendent Tony Apostle.
The Legislature met for several hours Saturday and took the following actions.
A pruning work party was held Saturday at the Curran Apple Orchard Park in University Place. For $35 annually, people can adopt a tree, which they must prune in exchange for harvesting buckets of apples in the fall.
The Olympia Kiwanis Club, Olympia Historical Society and Olympia Woodturners Association share something in common: They’re all putting to good use some of the big trees that came down or were fatally damaged in the January snow and ice storm.
The state Senate passed a bill Friday to ban one potentially cancer-causing flame retardant from kids’ products but not another that is more widely used.
Everything was a little bit harder. Navigating the hallways. Weaving through the maze of desks in the classroom. Even participating in the Pledge of Allegiance.
After 75 years of offering classical music in Tacoma, the Tacoma Philharmonic is merging into the Broadway Center for Performing Arts, the nonprofit organization that manages the City of Tacoma’s downtown theaters.
If 11-year-old Alex Penny of Olympia could have one wish come true, it would be world peace. Unfortunately, that’s a bit beyond the reach of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
The draft of a new Port of Tacoma strategic plan calls for creation of a common user container terminal, more cost-competitive rail service, development of Tacoma as a strategic military port and attraction of more break bulk business to its terminals.
Two flood-prone cities in eastern Pierce County say they could face significant financial losses if a national wildlife group is successful in blocking flood insurance for new construction in parts of the Puget Sound area.
Drivers traveling through Federal Way this weekend should expect delays. The state Department of Transportation will close all lanes of southbound Interstate 5 at state Route 18 by 11 p.m. Saturday. They will reopen at 7 a.m. Sunday.
Drivers might using Schuster Parkway Saturday might face delays as crews remove a potentially hazardous tree.
At least one person is dead in a house fire in the 5900 block of 48th Avenue East. Central Pierce Fire & Rescue crews were searching the house to see if there are any more victims.
A bill that would offer greater protections for stalking victims will not get a full hearing by the Legislature after an intense lobbying campaign by state judges.
To understand the “no” vote cast on same-sex marriage by Rep. Steve Kirby, a Tacoman who usually sides with his fellow Democrats, look at how the people in his district voted in 2009 on the successful referendum giving gay couples “everything but marriage.”
If true, the charges are ugly: a police officer cashing in on the deaths of four colleagues and feathering his nest with shiny toys. Skeeter Timothy Manos, 34, was charged Wednesday with 10 federal counts of wire fraud, involving the theft of at least $151,000 from a charitable fund intended for the families of four Lakewood officers slain in 2009.
A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket Saturday’s funeral for Charlie and Braden Powell and will be counterprotested by Occupy Seattle.
A new principal named to lead Tacoma’s Bryant Montessori School comes from a Seattle school that is under investigation by the Seattle School District, according to The Seattle Times.
Scam artists pretending to be Joint Base Lewis-McChord soldiers preparing for combat deployments are trying to make phony car sales on the Internet with deals that sound too good to be true.
Service Employees International Union 775 Healthcare is headed back to court in a dispute with the state over its reduction in home-care aid for certain Medicaid clients who are disabled or elderly.
Puyallup city leaders are discussing whether to move the Police Department into the four-year-old City Hall.
Residents testified Wednesday night that increasing the cost to cross the Tacoma Narrows Bridge would take a toll on families living on the peninsula and its economy.
Washington is one step closer to legalizing gay marriage, and also to a citizen referendum against it, after the state House approved a same-sex marriage proposal Wednesday.
Listening to the 911 tapes now, after we know what was about to happen at Josh Powell’s house, the 911 call takers seem agonizingly dense and rude.
Tacoma Public Schools has decided not to seek a state waiver that could have allowed the district to shorten the school year because of last month’s snowstorm.
Mired in a fiscal swamp of their own making, Tacoma City Council members recoiled Tuesday from the prospect of cutting all city funding for local events such as the Daffodil Festival, Ethnic Fest and neighborhood farmers markets.
Two new hotels will be constructed along the Pacific Highway corridor in Lakewood.
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.
Four Lakewood city employees will be handed pink slips today as officials work to close a budget shortfall of slightly more than $1 million.
Medicaid soon won’t cover emergency-room treatment that state officials decide afterward was “not medically necessary.”
She could hear a boy crying inside the house. She rang the doorbell. She begged Josh Powell to let her in. He ignored her.
Unless $10.3 million is pulled from a special pool of public money for the next 20 years, a city-owned garage planned as the base of a private development in downtown Tacoma can’t stay in the black.
A search warrant affidavit filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Tuesday showed Josh Powell withdrew $7,000 from a South Hill bank branch Saturday.
A search warrant affidavit filed in Pierce County Superior Court on Tuesday showed Josh Powell withdrew $7,000 from a South Hill bank branch Saturday.
On Sunday, just hours after the deaths of Charlie and Braden Powell and their father, several news media outlets were reporting that one of the children had made a drawing depicting a family outing that indicated their mother, Susan Cox Powell, was in the trunk of a vehicle.
A former Maryland governor who is widely credited with coining the term “smart growth” will be a panelist Thursday at a University of Washington Tacoma forum on urban development.
The Washington state Senate has passed a resolution honoring Margaret Anderson, the Mount Rainier National Park ranger who was fatally shot on New Year’s Day.
For the second time in a year, a bridge has been given weight restrictions in the heart of the Puyallup Valley, where heavy freight moves regularly between the Interstate 5 corridor and points east.
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