Pierce County News

The holiday season is gearing up. All over, lots of organizations have free Christmas events for kids of all ages.

Doctors across the Puget Sound region are frustrated with the slow distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine.

The prosecutor in the case against Pierce County Superior Court Michael Hecht is asking for the maximum 90-day sentence.

The Pierce County Library reached out to the community in October with a card drive and a week in which library fines were expunged and in the process increased the number of library users.

Viking Bank has decided to combine two of its South Sound locations. The financial institution will be relocating its Tacoma branch from South Sprague to Puyallup South Hill on Nov.

Pierce County prosecutors have charged two men with robbery after a heist at a downtown Tacoma bank branch Friday afternoon.

Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy vetoed the county council decision to eliminate a superior court judge position.

TACOMA, Wash. A reward is being offered to find a serial bank robber in Pierce County who tells tellers he is armed.

Police on Tuesday arrested Robert Jesse Hill after he walked into City Council chambers just before the Tacoma council was set to meet, violating a restraining order taken out against him by City Councilwoman Julie Anderson.

Sheriff Dan Kimball and Thurston County commissioners have settled their legal dispute over proposed budget cuts.

The majority of Puyallup voters who spoke out in last week's city council elections said they weren't interested in big changes.

Puyallup City Manager Gary McLean says a lot of time has been invested into solidifying relationships between city and legislators at the state and federal levels.

Steve Harlan knows the importance of being prepared. His son's home near Sumner's Rivergrove Drive was struck by January's major flooding and Harlan wants to make sure that the situation doesn't repeat itself this winter.

There are thousands of miles of railroad track in Washington State. From those rails came the sparks that started hundreds of fires.

Gov. Chris Gregoire cited Seattle's unresolved mayoral race Monday as the most recent example of why the state needs an earlier deadline for mail-in ballots.

South Kitsap YAHOO! By Chris Henry Wednesday, November 4, 2009 The entrance to Horseshoe Lake County park is closed for the season.

Sound Transit will have to pay an additional $2.5 million to the owner of a Tacoma business displaced by a new commuter rail line.

TACOMA, Wash. Police in Pierce County have released a surveillance video of two men, posing as officers, kidnapping and robbing two fast food workers in Graham, WA.

The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department has issued tough new guidelines for who should be eligible to be vaccinated for swine flu, citing a critical shortage of the H1N1 vaccine in the county.Starting Monday, only pregnant women and health-care workers who have close patient contact will be the highest priorities for vaccination, said Eileen ...

Police are looking for a man suspected of robbing at least two banks in Lakewood and possibly two more in the Pierce County area.