Pierce County News

A Pierce County Superior Court judge said Monday that temporarily boarding the mentally ill in hospital emergency rooms without treatment violates state and federal law.

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.

The rights of people with mental illness collided Monday with the state's struggling mental health system.

Two teenage Tacoma brothers pleaded guilty to first-degree murder Monday in the slaying of a 15-year-old and were sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

Lakewood police arrested a couple Monday in connection with a poolroom assault that killed a 47-year-old Woodinville man last week.

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

Even its supporters call Orting's McMillin Bridge "not a pretty" structure. Still, this week the Pierce County Council is expected to align itself with a small group of advocates in an effort to preserve the 78-year-old crossing on SR 162.

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

Community Transit has rejected thousands of dollars in bus advertising from a statewide gun control group citing a new policy banning ads on controversial religious, social and political issues.

Cities, towns and counties will soon have more input on where groups of released inmates can live when the state is paying their rent.

A Puyallup man who two years ago was declared incompetent to stand trial in the stabbing death of his roommate once more is being prosecuted in the case.

Members of Tacoma Fire Department salute the medic unit carrying the body of fellow firefighter Albert Nejmeh past Station 8 at 4911 S. Alaska St.

From the shores of Commencement Bay to the foothills of Mount Rainier, more opportunities for recreation are falling into place.

As the state prepares for today's release of draft rules to control the marijuana market, Pierce County is slowly developing its own plans to zone where pot can be legally grown, processed and sold.

Heavy truck traffic often clogs the roads at the end of state Route 167 where it ends at Meridian Street in Puyallup.

The slow-motion process of filling an empty judicial seat in Pierce County's largest court takes another step Wednesday, with no clear date for a final decision.

A former Spanaway Lake High School student is suing the Bethel School District over a stabbing incident that occurred at a school in May 2010.

The southbound 402 bus sits at the South Hill Mall Transit Center in Puyallup on Jan.

May 9: A man woke up from his sleep when his nose began to bleed. He attempted to curb the bleeding by pinching his nose.

Thousands of Defense Department employees in Pierce and Thurston counties still face unpaid time off this summer, but not as much as the Pentagon initially proposed.