School enrollment numbers are leveling out in Pierce County’s largest suburban districts, slowing a trend that saw these districts explode with new housing and kids in the 1990s and early 2000s while urban Tacoma’s student population steadily declined.
A shirtless, hatchet-wielding man was Tasered and then arrested Monday after he took a Pierce County sheriff’s patrol car and led deputies on a short pursuit in East Pierce County.
Sound Transit may soon spend an additional $24 million to study and design a longer southern extension of light rail, reviving hope that trains will someday reach Federal Way.
Restoration work on the Murray Morgan Bridge will require overnight closures of Interstate 705 this week.
Developers of the proposed new building north of the McMenamins Elks Temple in downtown Tacoma will ask the City Council today for a new agreement so they can start construction this summer.
The Washington State Patrol is accomplishing a $41 million radio upgrade by hitching its wagon to a federal program that is described in a new federal audit as having poor oversight of money and an uncertain future.
The Washington State Patrol says it is saving some $12 million by linking to a federal radio network rather than building its own system to conform with federal requirements.
The City of Lakewood is looking to trim about $1 million from its budget as revenues have come in lower than expected.
Josh Powell put some thought into killing his sons. In the days leading up to Sunday, he gave away the toys and books he kept for the two boys at his Graham-area house and stopped somewhere to fill two 5-gallon cans with gasoline, authorities said Monday.
In the first month of 2012, the median price of homes in Pierce and Thurston counties are down. So are the number of new listings and homes actively listed for sale. However, the number of home sales pending has risen.
School enrollment numbers are leveling out in Pierce County’s largest suburban districts, slowing a trend that saw these districts explode with new housing and kids in the 1990s and early 2000s while urban Tacoma’s student population steadily declined.
The woman who took Charlie and Braden Powell on their last drive was a visitation supervisor who worked for Foster Care Resource Network, one of hundreds of businesses that contract with the state to provide social services.
Charlie Powell wanted a duck pond. And bugs. Lots of bugs. His grandparents, Chuck and Judy Cox, wanted a place for the rainwater to flow on their wooded South Hill property. They were in the midst of fulfilling the little boy’s wish – and their own – by building a storm water retention pond.
When Danielle Twichel turns in homework assignments at Fife High School, they don’t just include answers to math problems or history questions.
A Pierce County sheriff’s deputy and his wife are suing a Gig Harbor pharmacy, claiming it twice gave their son incorrect dosages of medicine that made him very sick.
On Sunday, just hours after the deaths of Charlies and Braden Powell and their father, several 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 proposal to trim future outlays for state-funded pensions ran into a storm of criticism from retiree and labor groups last week, and the concept is in trouble at the Legislature.
As late as last week, Josh Powell was fighting for custody of his two boys and planning a future with them.
Heritage Christian School will host an open house Thursday from 7-8:30 p.m. Parents and students are invited to tour the school at 5412 67th Ave. W., meet with teachers and visit classrooms.
The royal court of the annual Daffodil Festival was given its first public introduction at Saturday’s Princess Promenade in Lakewood.
The Bethel School District has rescheduled three school days, to replace those lost due to bad weather in January. The school make-up days will be May 25, June 15 and June 18 – the new last day of school. There will be no school on Feb. 17. District officials said that day could not be used as a snow make-up day because of employee contract provisions.
The Sumner School District Early Learning Department will host Block Fest in conjunction with the District Science Fair and Art Show.
The Pierce County Skills Center will host an open house Feb. 15 from 6-8 p.m. at the center, 16117 Canyon Road E.
The man who gave life to 7-year-old Charlie Powell and his 5-year-old brother Braden apparently took it away Sunday in a fiery blast that left behind only charred walls at a Graham-area home.
Jim Delisle, a nationally recognized expert on gifted education, will give a talk next week in Tacoma, “Parenting Precocious Kids: Understanding the Ups and Downs of Growing Up Gifted.”
One by one, they added to the growing memorial. About 50 people gathered Sunday night at Carson Elementary School in Puyallup for a vigil to remember Charlie and Braden Powell. Charlie was in first grade at the school. Braden had yet to start school.
If you can’t see the fun in flossing, chances are you’ve never encountered Ashley Zantkovsky in her carrot suit.
Two doctors on a Madigan Army Medical Center team have been temporarily removed from clinical duties as the Army reviews the team’s handling of post-traumatic stress disorder diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers.
State government spends more than $1 billion on goods and services a year – from computers to consultants – all of which soon may come under a single official and single set of rules.
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.
Emergency crews responding to a report of a “patient with a laceration” in downtown Tacoma ended up making a rooftop rescue late Friday.
The following convicted sex offenders have recently registered to live in Pierce County.
Now that one big-box retailer surprised Tacoma with its plans, the City Council wants to tighten the rules to make sure the next one fits in the neighborhood.
Tacoma wants to capitalize on what school officials say is a growing reputation for originality by becoming Washington state’s first district-wide Innovative School Zone.
When he was a baby, Al Okere's father was gunned down by police officers in Nigeria.
With nearly all of the policy committees finished with their work ahead of Friday’s cutoff deadline, it’s a good time to check in with a few of the proposals that we’ve written about over the past few weeks and how they fared.
About 280 crews drawn from as far away as Missouri, Colorado and California were marshaled to work on line restoration. The utility, which can immediately call on about 100 repair crews from its repair and construction contractor, Sumner’s Potelco, began calling in out-of-state crews Tuesday and accelerated the calls for assistance when the forecast turned to ice on Wednesday.
A state Senate panel has approved a measure that would prohibit the use of indoor tanning beds by anyone younger than 18.
Two national ratings agencies downgraded the “outlook” for Washington state finances to “negative” last week.
A bill requiring initiative sponsors to identify their top five contributors in campaign advertising passed on a party line vote in the House State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee last week.
It wasn’t the smartest move. A Tacoma man hoping to rent a house paid too much money to a man he’d never met who didn’t own the home.
Lakewood officials didn’t fully consider how allowing the main gate serving Camp Murray to move deeper into the Tillicum neighborhood would affect residents, a lawyer argued during a seven-hour hearing Friday.
About 26,000 Tacoma Public Utilities customers in East Pierce County lost electricity Friday morning after a large transmission line failed.
A 53-year-old Lacey woman was killed and four Shelton residents were injured in a two-vehicle crash at 6:09 p.m. Friday at 6225 Hawks Prairie Road, according to the Washington State Patrol.
There's good news and bad news about the weather. First, the good news: From today until at least Monday, it's going to be sunny, dry and reasonably warm, the National Weather Service says.
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