A Grand Opening and Dedication of the new 13,000 square foot Early Learning Center at Tacoma Community College (TCC) will…
Lister Elementary School’s 400 students will be having a pizza party as one of the prizes won by “Voting is…
The first annual Candlelight Walking Tours of historic Old Town Tacoma will be held on Sat., Oct. 18 and presented…
University of Washington Tacoma will hold its first conference on higher education and Native Americans today at Carwein Auditorium. The…
Many Pierce County voters would associate Pat McCarthy’s name with local elections. Since 2003, McCarthy has served as Pierce County…
Home furnishing retailer IKEA will officially inaugurate its Northwest Distribution Center near Tacoma with a ceremony Weds., Sept. 17 at…
The entire historic archive of the Tacoma Daily Index will be made freely available online.
Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed announced Friday that John C. Hughes, a veteran Pacific Northwest newspaper executive and a…
Though not the equivalent of global financial services giant Russell Investments Group leaving town, Ticor Title Company has confirmed it…
The Pierce County Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission (LHPC) has announced it will recommend 15 organizations receive approximately $170,000 in…
!["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/2008/07/070208_passenger_train1_web.jpg)
In the early-1940s, as a teenager at Stadium High School, Jim Fredrickson was a common fixture near Union Station in…
A City Council committee has decided to spend more time studying a plan to create a stakeholders’ group to look…
The developer of Point Ruston, an urban village located along a mile-long stretch of the Commencement Bay shoreline and on…
