Kapowsin News

Two Pierce County fire districts are asking voters to approve ballot measures in this month's primary election.

Teacher Georgina Blocker helps Lindzi Miller with her English work last month at Challenger Secondary Schools while Garrett Ashworth looks on.

Each of the four Class of 2008 seniors The News Tribune followed this school year met new state graduation requirements to pass the WASL writing exam or pass math classes.

Newsweek magazine's list of the nation's top high schools for the first time includes three schools from Pierce County.

A stable weather pattern in the forecast should mean a memorable holiday weekend for lake anglers, whether they are pursuing trout, kokanee or bass.

“Their academic performance is 30 percent or 40 percent higher as a result.”

More Bethel-area kids will get the chance to go to kindergarten all day next fall if parents are willing to shell out for tuition. via TheNewsTribune.com

“I understand what the risks (of the Internet) are”

In our real lives, we set those rules for kids without batting an eye. But too often, rules about avoiding strangers, protecting privacy and staying safe go out the window when the kids enter cyberspace, says ... via TheNewsTribune.com

JEFFREY P. MAYOR; jeff.mayor@thenewstribune.com Published: April 24th, 2008 01:30 AM Updated: April 24th, 2008 07:38 AM For many people, Saturday is the start of the fishing season. via Tacoma News Tribune

“It's disappointed that it had to get to this place.”

The City of Tacoma is suing the Spirit of Washington for breaching a contract to operate a dinner train between Freighthouse Square and Lake Kapowsin. via Tacoma News Tribune

Hunters have until March 13 to submit applications for spring black bear hunting permits. via The News Tribune

“It's one of those unfortunate events that rarely occurs. At 4 a.m. it wasn't frozen. If we would have known the roads would turn to ice we certainly would have delayed school.”

Parents deluged Bethel school officials this morning with calls questioning why buses were late and why the district didn't delay the start of school due to slick roads. via Tacoma News Tribune

TACOMA, Wash. - A man accused of shooting his wife, posing her body in front of a television playing a pornographic video and ransacking the house to make it look like a burglary has pleaded guilty to ... via Daily News

After nearly a decade, a Kapowsin mother has finally agreed to plead guilty to helping her son cover up the murder of her daughter-in-law. Prosecutors said they have always maintained the killing was a ... via KIRO-TV Seattle

“I am innocent of any involvement in these crimes”

Her murder conviction thrown out by an appeals court, a Kapowsin woman pleaded guilty Thursday to reduced charges in the 1998 death of her daughter-in-law. Carol Jean Carlson, 56, maintained her innocence in ... via TheNewsTribune.com