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Tacoma launches Electric Vehicle Charging Station Pilot Program

May 14, 2019

The city of Tacoma is launching its five-year Electric Vehicle Charging Station Pilot Program.

The News Tribune

City to spend $1.6 million to help expand homeless shelter at Tacoma Rescue Mission

May 8, 2019

Tacoma City Council unanimously approved a $1.6 million agreement to help add 50 beds to the Rescue Mission’s emergency shelter at a meeting on May 7, 2019

Tacoma Weekly News

South Tacoma celebrates new library upgrades

April 26, 2019

What does Cheryl Towne, the managing librarian at the South Tacoma Branch of the Tacoma Public Library, have in common with Michael Sullivan, Tacoma’s most revered historian? They are both accomplished historians and researchers. In fact, says Towne, “You don’t have to know everything to be a librarian, just where to find it.”

Tacoma Adopts Exemplary Reform for In-Law Apartments

March 20, 2019

The city legalized backyard cottages and relaxed key restrictions on granny flats.

KNKX

Tacoma leaders to push members of Congress on immigrant detention

March 11, 2019

Leaders of Tacoma, home to one of the nation’s largest holding spaces for people facing deportation, plan to lobby members of Congress this week to reform the immigrant detention system.

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