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Big labor not yet backing Tacoma group behind minimum wage ballot measure

Tacoma business leaders fear national labor unions will donate big bucks to support a ballot measure that would raise the city’s minimum wage to $15. But 15 Now Tacoma is…Click to Continue »

 

For a decade women complained, but mail carrier kept working

For more than 10 years, women whom Robert Taitano delivered mail to in Tacoma told the U.S. Postal Service he was creepy or worse.Click to Continue »

 

Helicopters search Mount Rainier for missing Utah climber

Kyle Bufis, 25, has been missing since Thursday night.Click to Continue »

 

Sound to Narrows is cranked down a notch

“Subdued” might seem like an unusual word for one of the South Sound’s most popular running races, but in relative terms, that’s what Saturday’s Sound-to-Narrows was.Click to Continue »

 

Weather unlikely to trouble U.S. Open field

The weather is looking pretty good for the U.S. Open, if you like partly sunny with temperatures in the 70s, that is.Click to Continue »

 

Man who tried to stop thief from stealing his car dies

A 31-year-old Kent, Washington, man who tried to stop a thief from stealing his car has died of injuries he sustained when he was thrown from the moving car.Click to Continue »

 

Ryan Moore finds world beating a path to his hometown for US Open

At no point did professional golfer Ryan Moore ever think this was going to happen in his hometown.Click to Continue »

 

Man swims from Tacoma to Seattle. Next: A lap around Bainbridge Island and across Strait of Juan de Fuca

On June 6, Andrew Malinak started swimming in Tacoma and didn’t stop until he arrived in West Seattle.Click to Continue »

 

Isotopes top Rainiers, 3-2, in 11 innings

The Tacoma Rainiers could not find a way to win consecutive extra-inning games at Cheney Stadium.Click to Continue »

 

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