Category: News

by Karen Miller With uncertainty in the air and schools closed for the rest of the academic year, Tacoma nonprofit Graduate Tacoma is making a new resource available to help students and parents access resources…

Channel 253 asked freelance photographer Ingrid Barrentine to document Tacoma during a pandemic. Here’s what she found. (You can also hear the interview with Ingrid on the We Art Tacoma podcast where she talks about…

The move to make every Wednesday a one-hour late start hopes to give teachers more time for development By Karen Miller A change is coming to the Tacoma Public Schools calendar next year.  The district…

By Sean Robinson It’s official: Pierce County Councilman Doug Richardson is running for sheriff. Richardson, 65, said he intended to formally announce his candidacy on social media this week, following through on a plan he’s…

The race to replace long-serving County Sheriff Paul Pastor is beginning to heat up By Sean Robinson One year from now, Pierce County voters will elect a new sheriff. For the first time in 20…

By Sean Robinson It’s easy to reduce political races to simplistic frames, but sometimes they still fit.  Consider this year’s general election contest for Position 1 on the Tacoma School Board. While issues such as…

Deanna Keller said the contracts represent a small part of her business, and that she doesn’t support the Trump administration’s actions By Sean Robinson For years, Port of Tacoma candidate Deanna Keller’s plastics fabrication business…

Previously undisclosed records show that Tacoma schools leaders admit a hasty and incomplete investigation led to Ken Wilson’s termination by Sean Robinson Three years ago, in the midst of a public outcry over lead-tainted water,…

by Candice Ruud What is Click? Click Network – formally known as Click! Cable TV – is the city of Tacoma’s municipally-owned cable and broadband internet network. It began in the ‘90s and grew out…