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Searchers find missing Covington-area woman, 78, cold but OK in a fiel
Searchers found 78-year-old Betty Bauder alive but cold early this morning after she spent nearly 12 hours wandering alone near her Covington-area home in unincorporated South King County. She was...
View Article7-year-old Kent boy dies in sledding accident
A 7-year-old Kent boy died at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle at about 4 p.m. today, less than two hours after his sled left a snow play area and slid into oncoming traffic on eastbound State...
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Road crews are sanding and plowing in Tacoma and Pierce County, but be...
Road crews in Tacoma and Pierce County are working overtime to dump sand, lay down rivers of brine and plow snow drifts away on major arterials to keep them passable for commuters, officials said this...
View ArticleAs snow piles up, garbage could, too
Slippery residential streets and other roads could prevent garbage trucks from getting to their pickups in some areas today, Pierce County officials say. Here’s a copy of the county;s news release on...
View ArticleAll but Bridge to the Beach now open at Chambers Creek properties
Everything at Pierce County’s Chambers Creek properties and recreation area is now open except the Bridge to the Beach, the county said today. Operations at the golf course and popular walking, jogging...
View ArticleBridge to the Beach reopen at Chambers Creek
You can stroll the beach or watch the incoming storms again from the waterfront at Pierce County’s Chambers Creek properties. The $3.8 million Bridge to the Beach reopened over the weekend after...
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“He could have drowned,” official says of worker rescued after being swept...
Dramatic photos and a short video show the final moments of a sewer worker’s rescue this morning after he was swept down a pipe at Pierce County’s Chambers Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. The man was...
View ArticleRepairs at South 15th and Market streets will take at least until the end of...
The hole in the road at South 15th and Market streets in Tacoma is going to stay there longer than originally thought – keeping the street closed and forcing detours, the city said his afternoon. The...
View ArticleUniversity Place school community mourns loss of assistant principal who died...
Bryan Beale “was a talented and dedicated administrator who touched the lives of hundreds” of students and families in the University Place School District, Superintendent Patti Banks wrote on the...
View ArticleProsecutor’s office gets another $190,000 to fund gang unit through 2011
Pierce County Council members applauded the successes of Prosecutor Mark Lindquist’s gang unit Tuesday and awarded his budget an additional $190,000 through the end of the year. The money will pay for...
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