Ruston News

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.

Registration is open for the annual Rainier to Ruston Relay and Ultra, to be held June 6. The trail race runs from the base of Mount Rainier to Marine Park on Tacoma's Ruston Way.

A long-standing feud involving a developer, a carpenter's union and an activist organization over the construction of a mixed-used, multimillion-dollar development on a stunning but highly polluted bay outside Tacoma is now the subject of a federal lawsuit.

Up to $10 million in federal economic stimulus money will go toward cleaning up residential yards in Ruston that were polluted by fallout from the old Asarco copper smelter.

Two Washington state Superfund sites have been selected to receive a share of federal stimulus money for cleanup.

Ruston Mayor Bruce Hopkins is the first one to admit it: Something's gotta give.

Jimmy Haun, a representative of the Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters, uses a megaphone to explain why they are protesting as he and about 50 of his fellow union members picket outside of Berg Equipment and Scaffolding Co, at 2130 East D Street, Thursday morning.

A National Labor Relations Board hearing over the firing of workers who publicized working conditions at a Superfund site development near Tacoma has been delayed as the parties try to reach a settlement.

The South Sound's big regional parks - like those at Fort Steilacoom, Spanaway Lake and Point Defiance - are wonderful resources, serving thousands of residents' recreational needs each month.

Mike Cohen, the developer of Point Ruston, is working with the city of Tacoma to rebuild Ruston Way, the main route to the $1 billion mixed-use project.

The fate of nine parcels of property came up before the Tacoma City Council recently, and showed how attitudes to public property have changed.

City of Tacoma officials are working with the developer of Point Ruston, a $1 billion condominium and shopping complex at the site of the old Asarco copper smelter, on a plan to fill in the automobile tunnel on ...

As reported by The News Tribune: "Card rooms in Washington already get punished when they allow people under 18 to gamble.

Card rooms in Washington already get punished when they allow people under 18 to gamble.

During the final day of the 13th annual Model Train Festival at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma earlier this month, Al Zimmerschied of 'The Lakes' in Gig Harbor shows some of the finer points of ...

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