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Bellamy Pailthorp/KNKXTribal families from around the Northwest paddled to Nisqually for this year's canoe journey. “It teaches a lot of our youth that we still have culture,” said youth skipper Aliya Choke. -
Mayowa Aina/KNKXThree candidates are running for the Pierce County Council’s District 7 seat, which represents Ruston, Gig Harbor, the Key Peninsula and parts of northwest Tacoma.
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Since December, renters in six apartment buildings in Tacoma have voted to form unions in an effort to negotiate better leases with their landlords. -
Along Commencement Bay in Tacoma stand small, cedar-clad boxes. These tiny dwellings, hoisted about 16 feet above the ground, are new nesting boxes for purple martins. -
The Tacoma children’s hospital is moving into a new, six-story building this month. The $479 million facility is expected to expand access to health care in the South Sound. -
Thea Foss made an indelible mark on the Tacoma waterfront in 1889 when she started a tug company that still exists today. But efforts to remember her were slow to come. -
Activists are gathering signatures for a ballot initiative that could strengthen enforcement of renter protections, in a follow-up to the 2023 “Tenant’s Bill of Rights." -
The Tacoma News Tribune has exposed new details of an independent investigation into Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department's director of public health, Chantell Harmon Reed. -
Tacoma is seeking to improve connections across the city with repairs to sidewalks, pedestrian crossings and other improvements to arterials. -
State Department of Health officials tried to inspect most recently on March 20, according to the agency. The GEO Group, which runs the detention center, turned them away. -
Elected officials in Tacoma are urging Sound Transit not to abandon a planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome. -
Pierce County’s first-ever homeless shelter access hub recently secured funding to continue its services for at least two years.
