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Veterans Day falls on Wednesday this year, and South Sound residents will have multiple opportunities to honor veteran service members.
Sections of the North Cascades Highway and Highway 410 will be temporarily closed because of heavy snow.
WASHINGTON – Off the coast of Washington state, mysterious algae mixed with sea foam have killed more than 8,000 seabirds, puzzling scientists. A thousand miles off California, researchers have discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex roughly twice the size of Texas filled with tiny bits of plastic and other debris.
A Puyallup man has been charged with taking $366,000 from the state in fraudulent workers’ compensation claims.
The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has issued tough new guidelines for who should be eligible to be vaccinated for swine flu, citing a critical shortage of the H1N1 vaccine in the county.
A 29-year-old Fort Lewis soldier on her second tour of duty in Iraq died Wednesday in what the Department of Defense is calling a noncombat incident, according to a news release issued Friday.
Marilyn Strickland appears headed to the Tacoma mayor’s office.
A Bellingham-area soldier who was assigned to Fort Lewis was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday after he drove his Stryker vehicle over a buried explosive, according to his family.
WASHINGTON – With a historic vote possible as early as today, one Washington state representative, Brian Baird, said Friday that he couldn’t support the Democratic health care bill, while another, Adam Smith, said he had yet to make up his mind.
Some of the U.S. Army’s best spies recently departed Fort Lewis for Iraq, where they will help teach the Iraqi military how to play spy games at a high level too.
Two people were injured when shots broke out during a home-invasion robbery Friday morning in the Hilltop.
A man suspected of shooting another man to death this summer before fleeing to Nevada pleaded not guilty Friday in Pierce County Superior Court.
Pfc. Brian Russell Bates loved bragging about his home state of Louisiana, and never tired of telling his fellow soldiers about how he had survived Hurricane Katrina.
The first high winds of the fall toppled trees and dropped tree limbs and power lines throughout Pierce County early Thursday evening, leaving at least 13,500 customers without power.
Pending and closed home sales increased significantly in Pierce County last month as first-time homebuyers scrambled to take advantage of a tax credit that was set to expire this month, according to Northwest Multiple Listing Service figures released Thursday.
Officials in Edgewood are nearing the end of their three-month search for a new city manager.
Green River Valley residents learned Thursday that the risk of flooding this winter has been reduced from 25 to 30 percent to as low as 4 percent.
University Place deputies were searching for a man who robbed a bank branch near Tacoma Community College on Thursday morning.
Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy on Wednesday afternoon issued a carefully worded statement on Tuesday’s County Council decision to eliminate the Superior Court seat of Judge Michael Hecht.
Here are recent posts from The News Tribune’s Political Buzz blog. For the inside scoop on government and politics, go online to blog.thenewstribune.com/politics.
A Veterans Day parade with more than 200 entries, known as the largest of its kind west of the Mississippi River, is scheduled for Saturday morning in Auburn.
Lakewood police were searching for a man charged in two bank robberies and suspected in two others in recent weeks.
Two Tacoma Fire medic units were involved in separate crashes during a 15-hour window this week. In both cases, the ambulances were carrying critical-care patients. Both crashes were under investigation.
Tacoma Power will receive $4.7 million in stimulus fund money toward a new generation facility at its Cushman Hydroelectric Project.
Several bystanders chased down and detained one of two men suspected of robbing a woman of her purse as she walked down a street in Tacoma’s North End on Tuesday, police reported.
A 59-year-old man was killed Tuesday night after he was hit by a pickup in Tacoma.
Tacoma’s already tight mayor’s contest drew even tighter Wednesday, as City Councilwoman Marilyn Strickland’s lead dwindled by 54 votes over architect Jim Merritt in the latest count of ballots.
Pierce County Sheriff’s deputies will continue policing University Place through at least 2017 under an agreement unanimously approved by the City Council this week.
The most lopsided victory in this week’s local elections – in fact, the most lopsided in any contested race in Pierce County since at least 2005 – came from the small town of Steilacoom.
Area law enforcement agencies are trying to identify a man who is suspected in at least two bank robberies in recent days.
Drug-addicted military veterans charged with crimes soon will be able to take advantage of a new county program aimed to help them successfully integrate back into the community.
Washington voters appeared to be favoring a law that grants same-sex couples all the state-granted benefits given to married couples. Referendum 71 asked voters to approve or reject that law, a final expansion to the state’s underlying domestic partnership law.
Marilyn Strickland maintains a 171-vote lead over Jim Merritt for Tacoma mayor in results released at 5:30 this morning; Julie Anderson still leads incumbent Jan Shabro in the race for Pierce County auditor; No more results until 6 p.m. today.
When Anne Marie Semke was a school-aged child, she said she thrived in the public school system. She loved it enough that she decided to become a teacher and taught at both public and private high schools in Vancouver, B.C. As an adult, Semke still has fond memories of public school but is choosing to homeschool her two children.
A 27-year-old man has been charged with causing a wreck that critically injured another driver who had pulled to the shoulder of Interstate 5 in Tacoma because of a flat tire.
The Pierce County Council has eliminated the Superior Court seat held by Judge Michael Hecht just a day after he resigned.
On one of the last missions of his young life, Spc. Kyle A. Coumas had to carry the extra ammunition for his Stryker brigade squad. The extra 120 pounds wore on the Central California native as he marched through southern Afghanistan.
A $15 million claim was filed against the City of Gig Harbor last week, naming city council members and alleging they purposefully delayed and interfered with a previously approved housing development.
Military veterans with drug-dependency problems will benefit from a treatment program thanks to a federal grant that enables Pierce County Superior Court to establish a Veterans Drug Court.
Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Michael Morgan conceded defeat today in his race against Seattle prosecutor Rebecca Robertson.
Here’s the latest edition in a billboard advertising campaign that goes back to 1987 – when downtown’s LeRoy Jewelers began taking a whimsical look at goings-on in Tacoma.
A 45-year-old man arrested shortly after a Hilltop bank was robbed Monday afternoon has been charged in the heist.
Marilyn Strickland maintains a 171-vote lead over Jim Merritt for Tacoma mayor in results released at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday morning by the Pierce County Auditor's Office.
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