In a small office near Orting, Pierce County, on Thursday afternoon, Fischer used his finger to trace miles of the Puyallup River on an aerial image. “It’s a piece of our history,” he said ...

The pollution lawsuit charged 36 gross criminal misdemeanors that put the Orting-based hydroelectric ... a more than century old wooden dam on a river that is used by spring Chinook salmon and ...

The operator of a hydroelectric dam on the Puyallup River and a key executive have been ordered to pay $1 million in fines and restitution after pleading guilty earlier this year to a gross ...

At 7 p.m. Monday, Pierce County deputies and swift water and dive teams headed to Frank Albert Road East and North Levee Road East for a car in the Puyallup River. According to the Pierce County ...

SEATTLE (CN) — Utility company Electron Hydro told a panel of Ninth Circuit judges Thursday morning that a federal judge erred in ordering a portion of a dam operated by Electron on the Puyallup River ...

The Puyallup Police Department says a group of fishermen called 911 after they spotted a dead body moving downriver. It happened just east of 66th Avenue East on North Levee Road East. Central ...

First responders rescued a woman in her 30s from the Puyallup River in Fife Tuesday afternoon. Witnesses who saw her struggling to get out of the swift-moving water called 911. “Several officers ...

This flow would hit Orting in about an hour and finally come to rest all the way down in Sumner and Puyallup near Tacoma (see above). Other simulations looked at lahars that travelled down the ...

PUYALLUP -- The brick corner of the Quality Sewing and Vacuum shop sits just feet from where the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks cross North Meridian, the city's main thoroughfare. Each day an ...

Heavy rain over the last few days throughout Western Washington has meteorologists concerned about minor flooding along several rivers in the south Puget Sound region. As of late Monday night ...