Pierce County

Washington State Employment Security Department announcement. Washington’s economy gained an estimated 5,400 jobs (seasonally adjusted) in October. Job growth was highest in the following industries: Leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, education and health services, government, transportation, warehousing and utilities. Collectively, these industries gained 10,800 jobs. Job loss was highest in the information industry, […]

Pierce County Executive, Bruce Dammeier announcement. Recently, I joined a group of County employees at the Environmental Services Building to welcome them to a very important training session.  This was my third time welcoming folks to this particular class this Fall and we hosted the class several times before COVID. The class is called “Government […]

Washington State Senate Democrats announcement. A report on car tab payment options is available to the public now. The Joint Transportation Committee (JTC) received legislative direction to convene a Vehicle Registration Payment Options Workgroup to analyze payment options for vehicle fees and publish a report. “I appreciate the approach we took to analyze this issue,” said […]

Pierce County Sheriff’s Department announcement. On Monday, following a lengthy investigation into a string of commercial burglaries and ATM thefts throughout the county, deputies from our Proactive Property Crimes Unit and Special Investigations Unit arrested 45-year-old Kevin Michael Woods. Yesterday, the Prosecutors Office charged Woods with three counts of burglary in the second degree and […]

Submitted by Jeff Underwood, Health Plan CEO of Washington, UnitedHealthcare Medicare and Retirement. 1. Consider all your options. Take time to understand and compare the benefits, services and costs of each plan, so you can figure out which will work best for you. A good first step may be to watch a quick refresher video […]

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announcement. Today, you’ll see some changes to our COVID-19 reporting. We’re streamlining our case data, and we will now include some vaccination numbers to this report every 2 weeks. You can still find all our COVID-19 data on our dashboard at tpchd.org/covid19cases. We’ll continue to monitor all our local numbers and update […]

Pierce County announcement. Pierce County District Court will be closed at noon on Friday, Nov. 18, for employee training. The Court will reopen on Monday, Nov. 21. This closure applies to all courtrooms and public service windows of all divisions of the court, including the Probation Division and the Court Resource Center. We sincerely regret […]