The City of Tacoma’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted Wednesday to hold a public hearing Nov. 12 to consider a nomination…
It’s a Catalpa tree with broad green leaves that hang over a sidewalk along North L Street near Division Avenue,…
Tacoma Goodwill announced yesterday it has filled two openings on its management staff effective July 7. Mark Holcomb has become…
!["The nice thing about a [passenger] train is you can see what the country looks like -- you can look right out into people's backyards," says historian, author, and retired railroad employee Jim Fredrickson, who has amassed a collection of passenger train memorabilia. (PHOTO BY TODD MATTHEWS)](https://www.tacomadailyindex.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg?w=320&h=241&crop=1)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
The Port of Tacoma will host and be principal sponsor of the second annual Northwest Intermodal Conference, to be held…
It’s hard to believe, with temperatures still chilly, that spring training ends this week, the Seattle Mariners take the field…
A developer who purchased the 93-year-old former Elks Temple in downtown Tacoma in hopes of renovating it has announced it…
Amtrak Cascades ridership in 2007 increased to 676,670 — a 7.4 percent increase over 2006 and the highest annual ridership…
One week after nearly 300 people turned out for a meeting to discuss a proposed logistics center in South Puget…
Evidence of progress on a construction of a new hall on the University of Washington Tacoma campus was evident during…
TV Tacoma, the City’s 24-hour government information channel, took home four national programming awards recently at the 22nd annual National…
Since early-2005, Tacoma resident Morgan Alexander has been the face of a grassroots movement to restore a historic streetcar system…
As much as Tacoma boosters point to the University of Washington downtown as a sign of the city’s rebirth, one…
