Lakewood News

A Pierce County Council committee Tuesday recommended making it illegal for suspected prostitutes and their customers to attempt to detect undercover officers by engaging in sexual contact before a transaction is made.

A Washington man hired over the Internet to tow a boat crashed into the northbound Exit 148 sign at the bottom of Rice Hill on Interstate 5 at about 6:42 p.m. Saturday, Oregon State Police said.

The search for Lakewood’s new city manager enters the homestretch Tuesday with interviews of the three remaining finalists.

A Pierce County Council committee Tuesday recommended making it illegal for suspected prostitutes and their customers to attempt to detect undercover officers.

A 21-year-old man riding a longboard on the trail adjacent to the Chambers Bay Golf Course on Saturday died after losing control and hitting a tree, Pierce County sheriff's deputies reported.

When Clover Park High School seniors don caps and gowns Monday, at least one member of the Class of 2013 will be missing.

With limited funding, the district is targeting students who will enter grades three, four, five and six in September.

The Pierce County Council is considering the same change Tacoma adopted two years ago.

Ottie Austin Ladd, a Lakewood businessman and benefactor of local causes, was remembered this week as a caring man who didn't seek credit for his many contributions of time and money.

Tacoma and Lakewood are laying plans to embrace troops at Joint Base Lewis-McChord with separate military parades in August and September.

The city of Lakewood has rejected a request by producers of the "COPS" television show to again film police officers on the job in the community for the show’s 26th season, which begins airing in September.

A Thurston County judge sentenced a Lakewood man to 17 years and three months in prison Tuesday for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend in her Lacey apartment last year while armed with a firearm.

Mike Carrell was remembered Monday for his decades as a math and science teacher as much as his 18 years as a Republican lawmaker from Lakewood.

The Lakewood City Council on Monday night officially picked the six finalists who will vie to become the next city manager for Pierce County's second-largest city.

These 107 graduating seniors were nominated by their high school counselors, career advisers and other adult leaders.

Phil Olson first became attracted to running was when he was 14 years old and participating in his initial Sound to Narrows 12-kilometer run alongside his dad and brothers.

June 3: The computer in the bank lobby was free, so the 21-year-old Tacoma man seated himself in front of it and cranked up the tunes.

It was hard to imagine a better day for running: high clouds, a cool breeze and temperatures that stayed mercifully below 60 degrees.

City officials on Friday released the list of candidates recommended by a consultant to be invited for final interviews later this month.

A Lakewood police dog was handed his pink slip this week after police officials determined his biggest asset - an implacable sense for sniffing out drugs including marijuana - could become a liability.