Fife News

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.

Next spring, a new member of royalty will make her debut in Fife. Fife's Daffodil Princess Anne Phillips was chosen on Oct.

Federal Way looked like it might get a strong-mayor form of government, and Fife voters appeared to give themselves a branch of the Pierce County Library System in early suburban election returns Tuesday night.

Federal Way police are searching for a Puyallup-area man suspected of trying to kill his former boss at a Federal Way apartment complex last week.

A disabled Fife couple owe their lives to the quick action and courage of their daughter and a teenage neighbor who braved smoke and fire Monday afternoon to pull them from a burning home.

Three Chicks Catering Inc. has won KING 5 Evening Magazine's Best of Western Washington! competition for off-site food suppliers.The 7-year-old company, based in Tacoma, also has offices in Fife and Bremerton.

Aimee Tylor, general manager of Tacoma Hampton Inn & Suites, says 67 percent of hoteliers in Pierce County support the proposed Tourism Promotion Area.

Judy Rosekrans is doing a slow burn over her stove. She's venting about the professional hood that ought to be in her nearly remodeled kitchen.

What happened? The hotels are imposing a new levy on themselves. The Council had their first opportunity to look at the city-wide smoking ban in parks.

The state has suspended for a year the teaching certificate of a former Fife High School business teacher who resigned after pleading guilty to sending sexually suggestive text messages to a former student.

A semi truck left a road in Fife and nearly plunged into the Puyallup River Wednesday morning.

A design drawing shows the entrance from South 38th Street to Griot's Garage's planned new corporate headquarters at the old Coca-Cola bottling plant in Tacoma.

Preseason estimates show this could be a good year for digging razor clams along much of Washington's ocean coast.

Lakewood police say prostitutes are getting more and more street-savvy in their efforts to beat the law.

Law-abiding and caring anglers are ready to step forward to deal with the mess on the Puyallup River.

Kyle Blair enjoys moving trees and plants around his yard like furniture, so tackling a do-it-yourself pond and waterfall seemed like a natural progression in his hobby.

THE FFA GROUP TAKES SOME TIME TO POSE FOR A PHOTO AT THE PUYALLUP FAIR. Pictured L-R: Patti Burtchett, April Negrete, Carly Miller, Dennis Burtchett, Erik Feroy, Will Hoyt, Patti Burtchett, and Evon Shell.

Airborne video cameras, river-watching teams, 3,000-pound sandbags, a Twitter account and 16,000-pound concrete structures that look like the jacks used in the child's game - all are in place in Pierce County for the coming flooding season.

Shellfish managers will outline potential dates for early season razor clam digs and seek input about the upcoming season during a series of meetings later this month.

Law enforcement officers arrested 361 suspected drunken drivers in Pierce County during a recent three-week enforcement campaign.