A garbage bin, a recycling bin and a food and yard waste bin sit by the sidewalk. City of Tacoma New Year’s is a time for celebrating the end of the year and looking ahead at what’s to come. In Tacoma ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A dog and three cats that were abandoned are now receiving care at the Humane Society for Tacoma & Pierce County. The animals were severely neglected, and arrived at the humane society ...

A new plan for Tacoma's trash has some neighbors raising a stink -- the city is considering only picking up garbage every other week. For nearly 20 years, curbside recycling has been an option for ...

An explosion in the back of a garbage truck left the vehicle smoldering in Tacoma on Wednesday. Firefighters were dispatched at 8:57 a.m. to the 3900 block of South 74th Street for a garbage truck on ...

Trash, recycling and yard waste bins are seen in Tacoma on April 27, 2020. Joshua Bessex [email protected] To reduce household food waste, the City of Tacoma and Mill, a company that uses ...

Trash, recycling and yard waste bins are seen in Tacoma, on April 27, 2020. In the weeks leading up to the holidays, we can begin to accumulate a lot more trash than usual since many people are buying ...

The pilot program is over. Now it’s the real deal in Tacoma. Every other week garbage collection begins March 11. The city has been testing the idea for nearly two years, and now it’s going to roll it ...

For Tacoma residents who don’t want to deal with smells and fruit flies, there’s a new alternative to composting. The city is testing a pilot program that aims to reduce food waste going into ...

Several of Parks Tacoma’s facilities, including the Eastside Community Center, Fort Nisqually and the Point Defiance Zoo & ...

The City of Tacoma has its hands full with an unauthorized homeless camp situated under an overpass in downtown that’s being called “The Jungle.” And the similarities between the Tacoma homeless camp ...