Memories are a big part of The Evergreen State College’s 40th anniversary celebration, which launched last fall and will continue today and Sunday with seminars, lectures and discussions about everything from sustainability to entrepreneurship.
No one is sure precisely when, but there will come a long-awaited moment Saturday afternoon when the rising tide will lift a lovingly restored sailboat from its cradle in Gig Harbor.
Kent police ended an eight-hour standoff overnight when they discovered a man they were looking for wasn’t barricaded inside a home as first thought.
A Fircrest man charged with taking care of his girlfriend’s children this week did anything but, police say.
The Tacoma Education Association will have two new leaders in July.
Local law enforcement officers are trying to identify a man suspected of stealing a car from the Pierce Transit Tacoma Dome Station on Tuesday.
The Pierce County Auto Crimes Enforcement Task Force is turning to online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to track down stolen cars and thieves.
The idea behind Kent’s Kinder-to-College program is to plant the seed early for higher education. The South King County kindergarteners have been visiting college campuses throughout the Puget Sound area. By the time the school year ends, nearly 900 kindergarteners and 200 parents will have taken part in the tours.
An extravagant celebration is planned Saturday for the grand opening of the South Tacoma Area Recreation Center, which will offer everything from fitness classes to cooking demos to an adventure run.
One of eight endangered red wolf pups born this week at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium died overnight Wednesday.
The first-ever Angelman Syndrome Foundation Walk in Washington is planned Saturday in Puyallup.
A 31-year-old man was stabbed and critically injured late Wednesday during an altercation at a Hilltop grocery store, Tacoma police said Thursday.
Pierce County Jail officials Thursday were investigating the death of a 45-year-old inmate as an apparent suicide.
Fife police on Thursday were searching for the thieves who stole about 7,500 feet of wire, darkening parts of two streets earlier this month.
A bear sighting at a Gig Harbor school Thursday prompted a modified lockdown at two schools and delayed buses, according to Peninsula School District.
OLYMPIA — Opponents of the state’s liquor-privatization initiative made a final bid Thursday to invalidate the voter-approved law just two weeks before it is set to take effect.
Local art groups are good sources for free and interesting things to do in the South Sound. This week, the Peninsula Art League presents artist Jacqui Beck demonstrating painting techniques Tuesday evening in Gig Harbor and, on Thursday evening, the Telephone Room Gallery sponsors free entry to Tacoma Art Museum.
Explore Poulsbo, either this weekend at the annual Viking Fest or any other day of the year, and you’ll come away with picturesque photos, a satisfied stomach, and a new appreciation for all things Scandinavian. And all right, a silly hat with horns.
The story that Rafiullah and Haji Mohammad Naim told McClatchy is the first public account by survivors in their village of the March night when a man shot and killed 17 people in two Afghan villages. U.S. officials have accused Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of the massacre.
Winning bidders for the rights to 18 state liquor stores have reneged on their offers for the stores, triggering a second auction for those locations.
Sgt. Nicholas Dickhut stood his ground, whether he was a Joint Base Lewis-McChord Stryker soldier on a combat tour or he was training to become one.
Denise Cox and Alina Powell both left a Pierce County courtroom crying Wednesday.
After examining a new litter of endangered red wolves born at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium last weekend, veterinarians have determined there are actually eight pups rather than the six first spotted on a video monitor in the wolf den.
Tacoma police have found another gun stolen from a Fife sporting goods store in December and believed used in a recent crime.
Puyallup will keep its red-light cameras.
A 16-year-old boy who apparently drowned Tuesday while trying to swim across the Chehalis River near Independence Road will be remembered for his winning smile and personality, grieving friends said Wednesday.
The parents of a Loomis armored car guard killed nearly three years ago during a robbery inside the Lakewood Walmart sued the state Wednesday, alleging corrections officers didn’t do enough to monitor and find the man who fatally shot their son.
Tacoma police were searching Wednesday for an armed man who robbed a South Tacoma convenience store.
One of Tacoma’s successful examples of historic renovation is now controlled by a Seattle investment group that slipped the property right out of a nasty business dispute.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — It was early in the morning, perhaps 2 a.m., when gunfire awakened 14-year-old Rafiullah.
An endangered red wolf at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium celebrated Mother’s Day by becoming a mother herself, birthing eight pups and bringing legitimacy to a nearly 40-year-old program intended to save the wolves from extinction.
Pierce County officials warned Tuesday that a councilman’s proposal requiring voter approval of any new county tax could hurt the county financially and make it vulnerable to a lawsuit.
A Pierce County jury on Tuesday decided Allen Eugene Gregory should die for raping and murdering Tacoma resident Geneine Harshfield in 1996.
Two Tacoma judges on the Pierce County Superior Court face challenges to their re-election bids, and a third faces a pair of opponents if she decides to run again.
Thieves have stolen two historic bronze floral urns used as grave markers for Olympia Brewing Company founder Leopold Schmidt and his son Peter since 1914.
The mother of a third-grade boy who brought a handgun to a Bremerton elementary school pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with a shooting that injured a classmate of the boy.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord is holding a memorial service Wednesday for a soldier who was killed April 30 in Afghanistan.
Five years ago, the state ruled that Great Wolf Lodge in South Thurston County was exempt from most state taxes because it was partly owned by the Chehalis Tribe.
More than 3,000 South Sound area military retirees or their beneficiaries are expected to attend Friday’s annual appreciation event at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Philanthropy Northwest, a Seattle-based agency that assists grantmakers in six Northwest states, is out this week with its biennial report of corporate and foundation giving.
The Pierce County jury deliberating the voyeurism case against Steven Craig Powell left court Tuesday without delivering a verdict.
Despite months of ominous warnings that hundreds of post offices and postal sorting centers could close down early this summer, don’t expect to find your favorite post office shuttered anytime soon.
A Seattle police officer from Puyallup, Keith Swank, is challenging U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert from the right in the new, more Republican 8th Congressional District, even as he’s also challenged from the left by Democrat Karen Porterfield of Issaquah.
A Pierce County jury is deliberating whether a man who had his death penalty overturned on appeal should again be sentenced to die for raping and killing a Tacoma woman.
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