Steilacoom News

As poll votes were counted this evening and a new batch of results was released at 10:26 p.m., school levies from as far south as Steilacoom to as far north as Fife still looked to be passing with safe margins.Clover Park School District's construction bond gained a little ground, too.

Work accelerated in January on the 64-car ferry Chetzemoka, which is on schedule to launch this summer to serve the Port Townsend-Keystone route.

Walk in Arroyo Park with Bellingham resident Dave Tucker and you get more than pleasant conversation in a pretty, wooded setting.

"I'll get a room and a TV," says Jeri Ringseth, right, as husband Gary visits her at a Tacoma hospital in April 2009.

A 30-year-old Steilacoom man has admitted robbing a Grays Harbor County man at gunpoint after the victim's ex-girlfriend lured him to an ambush in Hoquiam, according to The Daily World of Aberdeen.

Pierce County prosecutors have charged a 39-year-old man in connection with last week's bank robbery and bomb scare in downtown Tacoma.

Letterboxing is an adventurous mix of mystery solving, orienteering, art and the outdoors.

Letterboxing is an adventurous mix of mystery solving, orienteering, art and the outdoors.

Jake Hathcock knows that spending $10 or $12 on a single bottle of extreme beer at a bottle shop can give some beer fans pause.

Pierce County Councilmember Dick Muri has changed his profile picture for his campaign Facebook presence to be a Scott Brown campaign poster.

A maintenance worker for the Clover Park School District says after he found out about contractors paying school administrators to guarantee future work and shoddy construction and repair work, the district retaliated against him.

Cascade Regional Blood Services says the promotion has worked so well at six Tacoma pubs and breweries, it's expanding its "Give blood, get beer" offer to its bloodmobile for pubs in Federal Way and Steilacoom.

A Tacoma-based blood center offers donors a deal: Give a pint of blood, get a pint of beer.

A Tacoma-based blood center offers donors a deal: Give a pint of blood, get a pint of beer.

The Tacoma Astronomical Society is offering a primer on using telescopes at its Public Night program tonight.

The Steilacoom II ferry will be out of service Saturday and Sunday, making way for an annual Coast Guard inspection of the 50-car vessel that Washington State Ferries leases from Pierce County.

A sale is proposed for one of Steilacoom's most prominent properties, and the potential deal comes as the parcel's owner faces financial struggles.

A group of University Place boosters hopes to generate support and money to build a themed playground at Chambers Creek Properties.

Washington State Ferries is canceling the Keystone to Port Townsend ferry route for one weekend.

With the click of a computer mouse, travelers can now find where Pierce County's only active ferry is sailing.