Ruston News

One cool thing about Tacoma is the local pride residents have for the City of Destiny.

WASHINGTON - A Mexican company formally regained control of Asarco on Thursday, as a court-approved bankruptcy plan took effect providing $188 million to Washington state for environmental damages from its Ruston smelter and other operations.Under the plan, Grupo Mexico will pay a total of nearly $1.8 billion for environmental cleanup and ...

Birders will be heading out around Tacoma and Pierce County as part of the Tahoma Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count on Dec.

A Mexican company will pay a total of nearly $1.8 billion for environmental cleanup and restoration at 80 sites in 19 states where bankrupt copper producer Asarco mined and operated smelters, including one in Washington state.

Two new apartment buildings to be built at the site of the former Asarco copper smelter near Point Defiance Park are examples of a new brand of cooperation among federal agencies, the number two man in the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said Monday.

Work on a project that will bury forever one of the last quirky remnants of Tacoma's Ruston Way industrial waterfront, the Ruston tunnel, begins today.

Personal fireworks of all kinds, including sparklers, will be outlawed in Steilacoom in 2011, putting Washington's oldest town among the ranks of no-fireworks cities such as Tacoma, Fircrest, Ruston and Federal Way.

Work on a project that will bury forever one of the last quirky remnants of Tacoma's Ruston Way industrial waterfront, the Ruston tunnel, begins today.

Work will begin this month to clean up playgrounds at 37 day care centers in Pierce and King counties, sites that were contaminated by arsenic and lead from the old Asarco smelter in Ruston.

Elijah Williams, Alex Kidder and Sam Rogge, from left, all 14-year-old freshmen at Tacoma's new Science and Math Institute work on a class assignment Sept.

WASHINGTON A U.S. bankruptcy judge in Texas has concluded that Grupo Mexico should regain control of Asarco even though it had been accused of gutting the century-old mining/smelting company and the federal government and 11 states including Washington opposed the reorganization plan.

Along North 51st Street in Tacoma, a line of gum trees droops elegantly in the summer sun.

The tide will be in, the tables set and the outdoor tents will be up as Harbor Lights prepares to make a splash to commemorate its 50th Anniversary this Thursday, Aug.

Tacoma's waterfront restaurant Harbor Lights will commemorate its 50th anniversary this Thursday.

Nick Martens , a Colorado native, wanted to study in the Northwest because he heard it was pretty hip and very damp.

My thoughts and prayers are with the K-9 member. I could care less if the perp survives or not.

Over the years, as a consumer writer, I've written about how to buy a home a number of times.

By AUBREY COHEN SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Point Ruston developer Mike Cohen came to visit Seattle this week, riding his sales center up from Pierce County.

That industrial waste is slag from a nine-story copper smelter that used to stand here.