University Place News

There was a bittersweet feeling to the Nov. 3 general election for Pierce County Council member Terry Lee.

Doctors across the Puget Sound region are frustrated with the slow distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine.

Plant Walk - Learn about and identify the many native plants of the Adriana Hess Wetland Park, noon-1 p.m. Nov.

Kids will be playing basketball in University Place this winter after all, even as city officials and volunteers work to spare other youth recreation leagues and senior citizen programs from harsh budget cuts.

There are zero-book children, 1,000-book children, the summer slide, Early Readers, Reading First, Striving Readers and programs, methods and studies with names and acronyms that won't quit.

The Martin Firm, of University Place, has been named a winner in the 2009 Davey Awards competition, sponsored by the International Academy of the Visual Arts for its video production work on behalf of Wilcox Farms.Their television commercial, recognizing the Northwest egg producer for their century of farming and business operations, garnered a ...

Pierce County Library System is facing at least $1 million in cuts over the next year.

University Place deputies were searching for a man who robbed a bank branch near Tacoma Community College on Thursday morning.

Pierce County Sheriff's deputies will continue policing University Place through at least 2017 under an agreement unanimously approved by the City Council this week.

A 20-year-old man alleged to have a history of impersonating police officers and claiming to be a soldier was arrested Monday after he roamed hallways and visited classrooms at Drum Intermediate School in University Place.

A 20-year-old man spent several hours Monday lecturing students at a University Place middle school about his adventures fighting for the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A man was arrested at a University Place middle school earlier this week for allegedly impersonating a narcotics officer.

A divided University Place City Council voted early this morning to rescind a 2010 pay raise they adopted just two weeks ago for council members elected today.

A divided University Place City Council voted early this morning to rescind a 2010 pay raise they adopted just two weeks ago for council members elected today.A proposal to cut council pay by 50 percent and increase their family health-insurance premiums failed when the six members present deadlocked 3-3.

The mayor of University Place is urging coaches, parents and other boosters of the city parks and recreation department to attend the City Council meeting tonight to speak against cutting the department and to press council members to rescind a pay raise they gave themselves earlier this month.The regularly scheduled council meeting will start at 7 ...

Here are recent posts from The News Tribune's Political Buzz blog. For the inside scoop on government and politics, go online to blog.thenewstribune.com/politics . Among the campaign money streaming into the Tacoma mayor's race in the final weeks before Election Day are two intriguing donations recently made to candidate Marilyn Strickland.

Seattle police say a Washington's Most Wanted viewer has identified two accused tag team robbers as: Samantha Chapman Kirk Sandifer.

Timothy Clinkscales secret hiding room is no longer a secret. If you're going to hide, you might as well be well-prepared. That's what Timothy Clinkscales was thinking.

The convicted child rapist featured Friday and Saturday on "Washington's Most Wanted" was captured thanks to viewer tips, and police said the man had a secret room in a University Place apartment.

A child rapist is back behind bars after a tip led police to his secret hideout.