The theme of Mayor Victoria Woodards’ 2024 State of the City Address is Collectively Weaving Our Community Tapestry. She will focus on the City’s ongoing work to support the community’s priorities and highlight key initiatives going forward in support of shared efforts to create a more livable Tacoma. There is no cost to attend the 2024 […]
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Project update: South Tacoma Station Access Improvements
Sound Transit is collaborating with the City of Tacoma to build a better-connected network, so more people can walk, roll, bike, and take public transit to South Tacoma Station and other neighborhood destinations. We prepared an environmental checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) for the project. The checklist analyzes potential environmental impacts, both positive and […]
Office of Equity and Human Rights Hosts Tutorials for Tenants and Landlords
TACOMA, Wash. – Community members are invited to attend a tutorial session in February or March 2024 to learn more about rental housing regulations and requirements in Tacoma. All sessions will cover the City of Tacoma’s updated Rental Housing Code, the new Landlord Fairness Code, how those codes work together, and what it all means […]
MultiCare donates mobile laboratory device to Tacoma Fire
TACOMA, Wash. — MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital donated six iSTAT mobile laboratory devices to the Tacoma Fire Department today. The device will allow emergency medical personnel to rapidly diagnose and evaluate life-threatening diseases in minutes. “The iSTAT device allows EMS to run laboratory tests in the field and provide our emergency physicians with a better […]
Tacoma Youth Symphony presents “Bridging Worlds”
Tacoma, WA – Music has always been a powerful tool for bringing people together and bridging cultural divides. On March 3, the Tacoma Youth Symphony will perform music from composers from two very different parts of the world. The concert will open with Jean Sibelius’ Finlandia with the hymn sung by Finnish soprano, Heidi Kankaanpää. […]
University Of Puget Sound Is A Top Producer Of Fulbright U.S. Students
Tacoma, Wash. — For the third year in a row, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs recognized the University of Puget Sound as one of the colleges and universities with the highest number of students selected for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. Fulbright Top Producing Institutions like Puget Sound value global connections and support […]
Symphony Tacoma presents “Remembrance”
Celebrating 150 years of Verdi’s RequiemSaturday, February 24th – 7:30pmPantages Theater Sarah Ioannides, conductorSymphony Tacoma Voices (Geoffrey Boers, director)Tess Altiveros, sopranoLaurel Semerdjian, mezzo-sopranoBrendan Tuohy, tenorCharles Robert Stephens, bass Tacoma, WA — This year celebrates the 150th anniversary of Verdi’s Requiem, his monumental choral masterpiece that transcends the traditional boundaries of the Requiem mass with its […]
Tacoma’s Crime Dashboard is Live
Submitted by Tacoma Business Council. There is now an easy to use tool available on crime data. For example, if you want to know how today’s homicide rate compares to 2018, that is easily done. We ran that test. Here’s what the dashboard generated. We are glad to see homicides down from last year’s high, […]
No School? Head to the Pool on President’s Day, Feb 19
Upcoming activities from Metro Parks Tacoma. Click here to learn more. Visit any of Tacoma’s four community centers for free on February 19, President’s Day! Admission is free, no membership or day pass is required.