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Washington No.1 for jailing noncriminal youth, spurred by law named for Tacoma runaway

Washington lawmakers passed the Becca Bill in 1995 to give parents more authority to get help for runaway kids like Rebecca Hedman. But today, the law passed in honor of…Click to Continue »

 

Matt Driscoll: Tacoma banned the box for city jobs. Now it’s time to do more.

We should go beyond city government and work to extend ban box-style hiring policies to private employers.Click to Continue »

 

Mount St. Helens, still steaming, holds the world’s newest glacier

Mount St. Helens’ Crater Glacier is growing when most glaciers around the world are shrinking.Click to Continue »

 

Olympia vets want their ailing comrades to switch from pharmaceuticals to pot

Twenty22Many meets every other Sunday at Rainier Xpress, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Olympia. The group got its name from a sobering statistic from the U.S. Department of Veterans…Click to Continue »

 

Karen Peterson: New TNT digital design launches this week

Plus, Gov. Inslee praises your hometown paper and TNT brings home journalism awards.Click to Continue »

 

Weakened Sounders enter dip in schedule

Saturday’s match at Chicago opens three-game run against MLS bottom feeders.Click to Continue »

 

Trail of the Week for July 11

Bearhead Mountain offers great views of Mount Rainier.Click to Continue »

 

South Sound salmon derbies offer anglers chance to win big prizes

Fishermen will have the chance to cash in on their big catch the first three Saturdays of August. Action will take place in the waters off Tacoma, Olympia and in…Click to Continue »

 

Eager beavers seeking summer fun can rely on these tips from the animal world

Those industrious rodents who build dams know a lot about staying busy.Click to Continue »

 

Miami’s Calle Ocho hints at Havana that was, that isn’t and that might come to pass

The Miami thoroughfare formally known as Southwest Eighth Street is the heart of Little Havana.Click to Continue »

 

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