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Tacoma, Washington. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Pierce. Associated ZIP codes: 98401, 98402, 98403, 98404, 98405, 98406, 98407, 98408, 98409, 98411, 98412, 98413, 98415, 98416, 98417, 98418, 98419, 98421, 98422, 98431, 98433, 98443, 98444, 98445, 98446, 98447, 98448, 98464, 98465, 98466, 98471, 98481, 98490, 98493.
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Washington state’s original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” collapsed into Puget Sound during a windstorm just four months after o...
Tacoma police arrest suspect in possible arson at former NFL star's home Police have arrested a man in connection with a fire at a rental home belonging to f...
Tacoma’s proposed budget aims to address a $40 million deficit by considering cuts to alternative response teams like the fire department
With one day off because of inclement weather, Paseo Verde’s pitching options will be limited Sunday against Tacoma, Washington, in the Little League World...
Court halts Washington's health inspection of Tacoma detention center after GEO Group appeal A U.S. appeals court temporarily halted state health inspectors...
Dramatic video captured the moment an explosion erupted inside the electrical room of a Tacoma, Washington, apartment complex as firefighters investigated re...
Four hurt, including two children, after deputy pursuit ends in Tacoma crash and fireA crash has closed all lanes of State Route 7 (SR-7) near State Route 51...
TACOMA — Washington state has agreed to pay nearly $80 million to settle multiple lawsuits filed on behalf of two adopted Pierce County children who surviv...
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has lowered detention standards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center under a new short term contract, even as newl...
Tacoma Fire took five people to hospital after reports of a stabbing at Foss High School.
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After a Washington Post story detailed precautions taken by the Secret Service during an Iranian assassination threat after July’s NATO summit in Turkey, M...
Aaron Vaughn will take over next week as the next head coach of the Central Washington University Wildcat baseball program.
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It's the start of a six-week lame-duck sprint for Congress as Republicans try to wrap up work before Democrats take charge in January. Newly elected lawmaker...
PERRYVILLE — Perryville jumped out to a commanding 44-0 halftime lead and maintained control throughout the second half, rolling to a 58-8 victory over vis...
LePage joined incoming members of Congress, including Democratic Sen.-elect Troy Jackson, for orientation in Washington on Monday.
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Tacoma is in Pierce County, Washington.
Region: Western Washington
98401, 98402, 98403, 98404, 98405, 98406, 98407, 98408, 98409, 98411, 98412, 98413, 98415, 98416, 98417, 98418, 98419, 98421, 98422, 98431, 98433, 98443, 98444, 98445, 98446, 98447, 98448, 98464, 98465, 98466, 98471, 98481, 98490, 98493
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It's the start of a six-week lame-duck sprint for Congress as Republicans try to wrap up work before Democrats take charge in January. Newly elected lawmaker...
PERRYVILLE — Perryville jumped out to a commanding 44-0 halftime lead and maintained control throughout the second half, rolling to a 58-8 victory over vis...
LePage joined incoming members of Congress, including Democratic Sen.-elect Troy Jackson, for orientation in Washington on Monday.
The Puyallup people lived in settlements on the river delta. In 1852 the Swedish immigrant Nicolas Delin built a water-powered sawmill near the head of Commencement Bay, but the small settlement was abandoned during the Indian War of 1855 and 1856. In 1864 Job Carr, a Civil War veteran and land speculator, built a cabin that served as the first post office, and a replica stands in Old Town. Hoping the railroad would end at Commencement Bay, he sold most of his claim to Morton M. McCarver, who named his project Tacoma City, from the Native name for Mount Rainier.
After lobbying by McCarver, future mayor John Wilson Sprague and others, the Northern Pacific chose Tacoma as its western terminus in 1873, and Tacoma was incorporated on November 12, 1875. The railroad put its depot in New Tacoma, two miles south, and the two towns merged on January 7, 1884. The transcontinental link was finished in 1887, and the population grew from 1,098 in 1880 to 36,006 in 1890. Rudyard Kipling, visiting in 1889, found it "staggering under a boom of the boomiest." On November 3, 1885, several hundred men led by Mayor Jacob Weisbach and other officials drove the city's Chinese residents from their homes, marched them to the station and forced them onto a train to Portland. The next day two Chinese settlements were burned. In 1890 George Francis Train began and ended a trip around the world in Tacoma to promote the city. The Klondike rush of 1898 made Seattle the leading port, and a streetcar accident on July 4, 1900, took many lives. Sources Wikipedia: Tacoma, Washington
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