A 25-year-old Tacoma man died late Saturday after crashing head-on into another vehicle in Parkland, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.
Central Pierce Fire & Rescue firefighters have doused a house fire just outside the Tacoma city limits this afternoon.
Fox's strip club in Parkland has reopened under new owners, nearly two years after it was one of four notorious strip clubs in the Puget Sound area shut down for prostitution and racketeering.
Cannons usually are used to wage war, but a Tacoma manuscript depository and a local veterans organization are battling over one.
Pacific Lutheran University has its next president – the 13th in the history of the Parkland campus founded in 1890. Thomas W. Krise, the dean of the arts and sciences college at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., was chosen as PLU’s top leader in a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents Wednesday, according to PLU officials.
Friends and family members are asking for the public’s help in locating a 21-year-old Parkland woman who has not been seen in more than a year.
Early election returns showed most tax measures passing in seven Pierce County school districts Tuesday.
Amber Serrano already knows whether she won “Cupcake Wars” and the $10,000 in prize money. The rest of us will find out when the show airs Sunday on the Food Network.
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.
Kids in at least two Pierce County school districts might be able to avoid making up some class days lost to the January snow and ice storm.
Seven Pierce County school districts are hoping voters show them some love in a Valentine’s Day election that includes property tax measures to sustain school operations. One district, Franklin Pierce, is asking voters for help to upgrade outdated schools.
Firefighters are shooting snow off the roof of the pool at Pacific Lutheran University as the school tries to figure out how cracks surfaced in the building’s ceiling this morning.
Parkland is an unlikely neighborhood for bayou eating. Nevertheless, for close to a decade, it was our version of the best Louisiana parish for etouffee, gumbo and po' boy sandwiches.
They were retirees, moms, workers, National Park Service staffers and law enforcement officers – some of the thousands of people who turned out Tuesday to honor Margaret Anderson in their own way.
The body of Mount Rainier National Park ranger Margaret Anderson was carried into Olson Auditorium at Pacific Lutheran University around 11:30 a.m. today, following a procession from a Lakewood funeral home to the Parkland university campus. Thousands of community members, park rangers and law enforcement personnel have turned out to pay tribute to Anderson.
As National Park Service and law enforcement colleagues said goodbye to slain Mount Rainier ranger Margaret Anderson on Monday at a private viewing in Lakewood, officials prepared Pacific Lutheran University for the crush of people expected for Tuesday’s public memorial service.
Pierce Transit is warning riders this morning that its routes in Parkland and Lakewood will likely be impacted by today’s memorial service for a slain Mount Rainier law enforcement ranger.
The public service to honor the life of Mount Rainier National Park ranger Margaret Anderson will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Olson Auditorium at Pacific Lutheran University. Among the people scheduled to speak are Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis, Mount Rainier Superintendent Randy King, two of Anderson's ranger co-workers and three ministers.
With public schools cutting back on spending for physical education, some members of Congress want to intervene, worried that the nation’s schools are churning out too many fat kids.
A giant-sized $100,000 check was scanned by the Transportation Security Authority and stashed in a stewardess’ airplane closet before making its way to a Parkland school Thursday, where dozens of kids clamored to touch it.
James Sales Elementary School in the Franklin Pierce School District is being recognized today by TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres as an “amazing school.”
Whoever stole Laurie Meade’s 1992 Cushman scooter made off with more than just a vehicle. They also took a portion of the Parkland woman’s livelihood.
A leaking propane tank sparked an explosion Tuesday night inside a Parkland home, rocking the surrounding neighborhood.
A man wanted in several armed robberies of pizza outlets, sandwich shops and gas stations in Pierce County struck again Tuesday, bringing his string of holdups to at least 26.
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