Wildfire program takes hit with funding loss, while the future of pregnancy-data collection for high-risk patients now in doubt.

The project costs $40 million and will replace the current two-lane bridge with a four-lane bridge that will also include a new sidewalk and trail crossing. The city hosted a groundbreaking ceremony March 18 marking the official start of the project. The project information site says the current bridge was built in the 1950s.

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office asks the public’s help to find 44-year-old Andrea Simmons, who was last seen leaving her home in Elk Hill before the office posted she was missing on Monday, March 31, 2025. Pierce County Sheriff's Office Courtesy

Multiple 911 callers reported a fight shortly after midnight Saturday at a large party in the 17800 block of 25th Avenue Court East.

Prosecutors filed charges Monday against a 17-year-old boy who is accused of being involved in a shootout that killed two people and injured four others.

The young woman is one of four people who were shot and injured in the shooting outside a Spanaway house party. Two other teens were killed in the shooting.

The ballot measures would merge Graham Fire & Rescue and Orting Valley Fire & Rescue into Central Pierce Fire & Rescue.

A fast-food employee in Pierce County was arrested after a gun was discovered in his backpack, raising serious safety concerns.

Eric Crowl, an elected Republican precinct committee officer who’s been entrenched in a bitter fight with the party, registered the available name on March 4 through a political