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Fire bans in parks, forests vary from agency to agency

Wildland fire managers are trying to reduce the risk as the hot holiday weekend approaches.Click to Continue »

 

Mariners notebook: Montgomery to start Sunday; Iwakuma’s return officially still TBA

Mariners also face Saturday decision on suspended reliever David Rollins.Click to Continue »

 

Tryouts for ‘The Biggest Loser’ coming to Puget Sound

NBC weight-loss show “The Biggest Loser” is holding a casting call in Lake Forest Park.Click to Continue »

 

Driver faces multiple charges after last week’s high-speed chase

Bernard Chom got lucky when he allegedly narrowly missed hitting a Pierce County sheriff patrol car last week.Click to Continue »

 

Not enough money to stop wildfires early, lands commissioner says

As wildfires rage across the state, the head of the state’s wildland firefighting agency says he’s frustrated the Legislature won’t pay enough to help prevent new fires from burning out…Click to Continue »

 

Detectives investigate car-to-car shooting in University Place

A man was badly injured Friday morning after being shot multiple times while driving through University Place.Click to Continue »

 

Parkland school kids teach lesson through billboards

A Pacific Lutheran University student, recently graduated, teaches middle schoolers how words can devalue and hurt people.Click to Continue »

 

Two loops and a roll: Pilot and her historic plane gear up for Freedom Fair air show

Vicky Benzing, a pilot for more than 30 years, flew out of the Tacoma Narrows Airport on Friday in her World War II-era biplane, doing aerobatics above the South Sound.Click to Continue »

 

239 years after the first Fourth: A look at the holiday by the numbers

Two hundred and thirty-nine years after that first Fourth, a look at this weekend’s holiday by the numbers.Click to Continue »

 

One more hurdle for plan to bring a veterans shelter to Tacoma

The Puget Sound Veterans Hope Center aims to provide emergency shelter…Click to Continue »

 

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