Move by sheriff's unit to Eatonville hall bothers Pierce County Council
Pierce County Council members are concerned the Sheriff’s Department didn’t consult with them before deciding to move its Mountain Detachment three miles to Eatonville’s Town Hall.
View ArticlePierce County Library System says campaign to lower e-book prices,...
The Pierce County Library System says its campaign to persuade major publishers to reduce their e-book prices and restrictions for libraries is working. Read more:...
View ArticleFewer Pierce County beds for mental-health patients
A clogged mental-health system has left patients languishing in emergency rooms, awaiting a spot in a state psychiatric hospital. Now the state is moving to reduce the number of those spots assigned...
View ArticleRevolving door leaves one patient, entire community at risk
Feb. 27: Four sets of straps bind patient B.P. to the gurney. She can’t feel them; swimming in a medicated dream, she snores like an old baby. Parked in a narrow hallway at Western State Hospital,...
View ArticleNo vacancy, no excuse for Western State to deny care
No vacancy is no excuse for denying treatment to the mentally ill. That idea, the core of a legal ruling issued Wednesday by Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Craig Adams, throws an...
View ArticleAuthor found a friend in 1st Mrs. Hemingway
She was shy, old-fashioned, a little dowdy. She’d had a traumatic youth, and no particular passion or work other than playing the piano. And she was just the first of four wives for writer Ernest...
View ArticleMild winter barely melts Pierce County's snow, ice removal budget
Pierce County has spent only one-quarter of its snow-and-ice removal budget so far this year, a sign of the mild winter that just ended – or at least a mild snow season.
View ArticlePierce County detention workers rehired with back pay
Arbitrator sides with Pierce County Juvenile Court Guild, says 3 men were wrongfully let go in 2011 | Pierce County juvenile court officials recently were forced to rehire three laid-off detention...
View ArticlePierce County Council puts off decision on later start for meetings
A Pierce County Council committee Monday delayed action on moving the full council’s meetings to a later starting time, a proposal that supporters say would allow more members of the public to attend.
View ArticleMeasure to register foreclosed homes advances in Pierce County
The Pierce County Council unanimously approved a measure Tuesday calling for foreclosed homes to be registered and abandoned residential properties to be maintained.
View ArticlePierce County seeking to revise dangerous-dog guidelines
Pierce County is poised to make a range of revisions to its animal code, including when a dog can be declared dangerous.
View ArticleRemodeled Sprinker Recreation Center cuts energy use in half
Remodeled Sprinker Recreation Center in Spanaway has cut its energy use in half, making it Pierce Countys Biggest Energy Loser. Read more:...
View ArticlePierce Transit vanpools will run while they get review
Pierce Transit’s vanpool program will continue rolling without any cuts for at least three more months.
View ArticleEmergency Management chief picked for Pierce County
Pierce County Executive Pat McCarthy has selected former Washington State Patrol Chief Lowell Porter as director of the county’s Department of Emergency Management.
View ArticlePossible Pierce County Council time change gets long timeline
The Pierce County Council won’t be changing its meeting time anytime soon.
View ArticlePierce Council member wants audit of Optum, county’s mental-health provider
Pierce County Councilman Stan Flemming is calling for an audit to determine how much the countys mental-health provider spends on administrative costs compared with patient care.
View ArticlePierce County health board approves $1 million in cuts
The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health approved more than $1 million in cutbacks Wednesday to a range of programs, including enforcement of the ban on smoking in restaurants and outreach to...
View ArticleLand sale could fill in gap in Foothills Trail
Pierce County is preparing to buy a crucial, missing link for connecting the Foothills Trail from South Prairie to Buckley.
View ArticleParks vote losing, others look stronger
Voters rejected on Tuesday the creation of a park district in Bonney Lake, which would have granted the city authority to tax residents to maintain parks and recreation facilities.
View ArticleSouth Sound 911 approves agreement with Puyallup, including costs for city's...
South Sound 911s board unanimously approved an agreement today with the City of Puyallup, agreeing to pay for about $3.5 million in radio improvements for the city. Read more:...
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