Puyallup News

A Puyallup student group is accepting toy donations for its 23rd annual holiday gift giveaway for needy children throughout the Puyallup School District.

It took a chase and a Taser, but Puyallup police arrested a suspected bank robber Friday, possibly ending a string of six heists dating back to September.

A 43-year-old California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to several bank robberies in Washington state.

Today I visited the Puyallup Metro Animal Service s to share some photos of their available dogs for adoption.

Puyallup's rosy financial picture has darkened in 2009, and city officials are looking at ways to save.

When the city of Puyallup received final details of a report about the financial impact of a merger with Central Pierce Fire and Rescue in March 2008, officials believed their revenue stream would be $10.6 million richer than it is today.

Members of the Puyallup City Council tentatively approved three map amendments to the city's comprehensive plan last week, but one of the proposed changes has significant debate surrounding it.

Burglars have hit several apartment complexes along the Puyallup River in a recent string of break-ins, Puyallup police said Tuesday.

The Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition comes to Puyallup's Liberty Theatre Thursday for a semifinals show.

Puyallup School District officials say the City of Puyallup owes them money for building Puyallup's new City Hall over a public alleyway that used to border district property.

For Paul Fagan, the last five months have been a blur of activity. In those few short months, Fagan moved to the Puget Sound area from Lubbock, Texas, and faced a prodigious task: Turn a vast but empty concrete building on Puyallup's North Levee Road, all 388,000 square feet of it, into a smoothly functioning regional distribution center for the ...

Not since World War II has Pierce County's annual Daffodil Festival been canceled.

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.

The following is a listing of Puyallup events, actives and news briefs. If you have a brief you would like listed, contact Puyallup reporter Neil Pierson at neil.pierson@puyallupherald.com. Briefs are published in The Herald on a space available basis.

Dick's Sporting Goods is looking to expand in Washington, according to a story from The Seattle Times .

Milton Nelson and Sean Scott each ran for a pair of touchdowns to propel the Whitworth Pirates to a season-ending 34-7 win over the Lewis & Clark Pioneers in Northwest Conference action Saturday in Portland.

Prosecutors filed attempted murder charges Monday against a Puyallup man accused of shooting his ex-boss on a Federal Way street as police continue to search for the accused shooter.

Christopher Robin Briejer of Puyallup was arraigned in Pierce County Superior Court Thursday on state charges that he misrepresented claims to the State Department of Labor and Industries.

A Sumner man was booked into Pierce County Jail after a two-car collision Friday at the intersection of state Route 410 and Mundy Loss Road.