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Pierce County is giving a $300,000 grant to Clover Park Technical College as part of a broader effort to connect people with learning and career opportunities in the trades.

A total of seven journalists were laid off from McClatchy-owned papers in Washington state, along with ten journalists in Idaho.

Kroger, the grocery giant that owns QFC, Fred Meyer and other grocery stores around the country, is planning to close another Fred Meyer in Tacoma. The store sits in the James Center shopping area right across from Tacoma Community College off a busy thoroughfare with a well-used bus line.

A new ultra-modern, white building sits at the mouth of the Port of Tacoma, just south of the Murray Morgan Bridge. It's a new skills center, called Maritime|253, for Pierce County high schoolers who are interested in a career in the maritime industry.

Pierce County is working to turn the old Purdy landfill into a green energy producer that will eventually benefit the Key Peninsula community.

The Pierce Transit Board voted Monday to send a measure to the November ballot that would increase the amount people pay in sales tax for transit funding.

Drastically fewer sockeye are returning to the Upper Columbia than expected. That's why Washington isn't allowing sockeye fishing this season there.

About 87% of all fresh U.S. pears come from the Northwest, according to the Pear Bureau Northwest. But many pear farmers in the Northwest say they're going into deep debt or are getting out of the business.

The Center for Biological Diversity is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to add two plants native to Palouse and Camas Prairies to the Endangered Species Act list.

Journalists at McClatchy-owned papers in Washington and Idaho are calling for higher wages.