Pierce County

MultiCare announcement. More than 370 South Sound community members turned out to support MultiCare Health Foundation’s 13th annual Rock the Foundation event at the Foss Waterway Seaport last month. The event raised more than $573,000 to support MultiCare’s cancer programs and services, exceeding last year’s fundraising goal by more than $290,000. One of the highlights […]

Sound Transit announcement. ORCA, the Puget Sound’s all-in-one transit card is now available for purchase and reloading at more stores. Beginning this month with the addition of Fred Meyer, more stores will be added on an ongoing basis, eventually doubling the number of locations and adding more availability at locally owned businesses.   ORCA cards will […]

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announcement. In the past 2 weeks, more than 23,000 Pierce County residents got a COVID-19 bivalent booster. More than 35,000 have gotten a booster since they arrived in September. Thousands of our friends and neighbors are getting protection from the latest omicron variants. You can too! If you still have questions […]

MultiCare announcement. MultiCare Regional Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons. “We are thrilled to have been recognized among the leaders in the field of rectal cancer through our recent NAPRC accreditation,” said Blair Irwin, MD, medical […]

Offices of Reps. Kilmer and Strickland announcement. Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) and Congressman Derek Kilmer (WA-06) urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to support $54 million in federal funding for the Puget Sound Geographic Program. They were joined by 5 of their Washington delegation colleagues. “For generations, Washingtonians have advocated for support to revitalize Puget Sound,” said […]

Puget Sound Energy announcement. Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers will see higher energy bills in late 2022 and into 2023. This is due to a combination of factors, including rising natural gas prices,  state policy objectives for clean energy, and continued investments in system reliability and safety.   Natural gas customers will experience higher natural gas rates […]

Submitted by Comcast. On Oct. 3 Comcast announced that small businesses owned by women and people of color in King and Pierce Counties, may now apply for a $10,000 grant from the Comcast RISE Investment Fund. Comcast will award a total of $1 million in grants to 100 eligible businesses in these two counties, as well […]

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department announcement. We answered many of your questions about new bivalent COVID-19 boosters a few weeks ago. But some of you still had questions. Should I wait to get a booster if I recently had COVID-19? It’s almost flu season. Should I get a booster and a flu shot? What about the supply […]