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WHAT: The event includes chainsaw carving, wood artists, demonstrations, food vendors and live music. The festival, now in its eighth year, is sponsored by the Tokeland-North Cove Chamber of Commerce.Click to Continue »

State urges prospective hunters not to wait until fall because classes will be full.Click to Continue »

Pink salmon are showing up in the South Sound, crabbing is fair with some people catching their limit, and Morton Lake near Kent was recently stocked with 1,500 trout.Click to Continue »

After the longest single-year legislative session in Washington history, the state House and Senate adjourned Friday following passage of the final parts of the state’s first transportation bill package in…Click to Continue »

Pierce County prosecutors have been forced to drop a manslaughter charge against Stanley Guidroz after a judge suppressed statements by Guidroz that he killed his 3-year-old son, Wallace, in Tacoma…Click to Continue »

A man and a woman shot by a Pierce County sheriff’s deputy have pleaded not guilty to charges that they assaulted and fled law enforcement in the Roy area.Click to Continue »

Charles J. McCann, best known as founding president of The Evergreen State College, died July 8 of natural causes. He was 89.Click to Continue »

A 59-year-old woman died Friday in a head-on collision in Tacoma.Click to Continue »

The parents of a man shot dead after throwing rocks at police officers in Washington state have filed a claim seeking nearly $4.8 million from the city of Pasco.Click to Continue »

With millions of mortgage loans originated every year, it is not surprising that now and then lenders make a mistake in calculating a monthly mortgage payment. On a fixed rate…Click to Continue »