The Los Angeles Timesrecommends riding a bicycle to Dodger Stadium and locking up at one of the stadiums numerous bike racks for tomorrow’s first game of the World Series, as part of theirfive ways to avoid parking and traffic headaches— as long as you’re willing to ride up some hills...
SEATTLE - The Seattle City Council approved proposals Monday that would begin defunding the police department by cutting officers through layoffs and attrition — an action supported by demonstrators who have marched in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis but strongly ...
A writer forWiredmakes the case forkeeping your kids off ebikes until they’re old enough to handle them. But bizarrely uses the tragic death ofdeath of 12-year-old Molly Steinsapiras a case in point, even though her death was allegedly the result of brake failure at the base of a s...
The USS Uniontown (PF-65), a Tacoma-class frigate, was named for the city by the United States Navy on August 16, 1944, the only ship to be so named. In 1967 Uniontown was the birthplace of the McDonald’s Big Mac sandwich. In 2007 the Big Mac Museum was opened in North Huntingdo...
Entry-level firefighters in large fire departments are trained for several weeks at the department's academy or training center. Practical training and classroom teaching are provided. After they complete their training they undergo a period of probation at a fire company. Many fire departments provid...
Center provides service to the Great Falls Police Department, Cascade County Sheriff’s Office, Great Falls Fire Rescue, Great Falls EMS, and Rural Fire. Over the last week, the 911 Center has handled 1467 calls for service, with an average of 251 calls per service per day, in a 24 hour...
I’ll come back later in the fall and winter and tell you more methodically about the various marvelous gardens we saw in three days of wide ranging tours based out of Tacoma. But my heart was stolen by a bunch of tree stumps, and it’s really all I want to think about right now,...
Several hundred demonstrators, led by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, occupied City Hall downtown Tuesday night for just over an hour, calling for the resignation of Mayor Jenny Durkan and the defunding of the Seattle Police Department after a
s absurd. I was also told last night of a man from California who had pulled off the freeway in Fife and had gotten a red light ticket there also. He was so angry he wrote to a local Tacoma newspaper when he got home from his trip to warn other travelers of the danger of driving...
“Don’t get me wrong. I’ve thought about it — I’ve thought about leaving. Like, my life would be easier if I moved to, um, Tacoma,” he said, using as an example the city in Washington state because it was the site of a recent conference he went to. It’s a city near ...