Fire officials said the aircraft had been undergoing maintenance and was on a test flight with mechanics on board when the landing mishap occurred.

Three unions representing employees with the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department filed a complaint with the Board of Health against the department’s public health director Chantell Harmon ...

If it’s confirmed that the woman was infected with malaria in Washington, it would represent the first known locally acquired case in the state. “It would be something we haven’t seen in Washington,” ...

"Things were going not so well this fall and winter, we peaked with cases in mid-November, with 450 cases a week, that was devastating for us," Pierce County Public Health director AZ Snyder said ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Health officials in East Pierce County are investigating a potential first case of locally acquired malaria in Washington state after a woman, who had not recently traveled, was ...

In a news release, Pierce County Public Health said the advisory order requires all people ages 5 and older to wear masks in indoor public spaces in which a non-household member is in the same ...

Health department spokeswoman Bridget Vandeventer says 131 cases of whooping cough were confirmed in Pierce County from January 1 to April 21. This is a "significant" increase, says Vandeventer ...

MILWAUKEE -- The Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Pierce County Public Health Department announced Monday, March 9 that a second person tested positive for COVID-19 — coronavirus ...