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Four Tacoma teachers have received layoff notices from Tacoma Public Schools, and 95 others may be displaced to other jobs and schools around the district.

A Pierce County jury on Tuesday convicted a man of second-degree murder for shooting a relative to death last year at a Tacoma storage facility.

A new law will make it easier to keep people detained after a court has found them incompetent to stand trial on felony charges.

It's not every day that a new marijuana dispensary opens with a $9 cap on top-shelf cannabis flowers.

Thousands of dancers came to the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington for Seattle's Life in Color event.

In this file photo from June 28, 2012, Gwen Barber of Spanaway, a toll taker for Trans Core at the toll plaza on Hwy.

A Tacoma woman who participated in a widespread fraud that ensnared dozens of soldiers from Joint Base Lewis-McChord and victimized her own grandmother was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.

A Tacoma man whose previous conviction in a fatal carjacking was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals pleaded guilty Monday a reduced charge.

Pierce County is studying whether to move employees out of leased office space into a new building it would develop.

When they met at a 2007 Washington camp for scholarship winners, Bashair Alazadi was 16 and wore the traditional headscarf of all Muslim women.

Robert Thoms, 42, was appointed to the Tacoma City Council last month to fill the vacant District 2 council seat.

Those 24 lawmakers have the power to create nearly 100,000 jobs and keep Pacific Rim shipping pouring into Puget Sound through the 21st century.

Question: There's a stretch of the entrance to southbound I-5 from Pacific Avenue in Tacoma that is in desperate need of repainting.

Bernadine Sanders, center, tears up as she talks to media about her twin brother, Bernard Houston, 17, who was murdered in Tacoma in 1988.

ABOVE: Shawna and Mike Allen and their family study together at the dining room table.

It's good, of course, that the city's volunteer landmarks and arts commissions are analyzing how to respond to news that the eight-story pole suffers from rot and insect infestation.

City workers have removed a “rogue crosswalk” that recently appeared on St.

If you were born the year the Grammy-winning band released its landmark album, "Rumours," you're about 35 or 36 years old now and maybe wondering where all the time went.

TACOMA. Wash.-- Former Lakewood police officer Skeeter Manos is expected to plead guilty Friday in Tacoma on state charges for stealing the identity of a certified public accountant and forging documents in his name.

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. Is he the "hardest-working teacher" in his district, as a fellow Lake Roosevelt High School teacher says? Someone who elevated his school's professionalism and standards, as his superintendent says? A "good example of the American dream," as a Grand Coulee doctor says? An ... (more)