Sionna Stallings Ala’ilima became the Tacoma Fire Department's new chief on Tuesday, the first Samoan to do so.

Sionna Stallings-Ala'ilima was sworn in as the new chief of the Tacoma Fire Department on Tuesday. She has served with the department for almost two decades.

The News Tribune visited the Puyallup Historical Society to get a closer look at how the festival’s iconic dresses have changed over the decades.

Eighteen acres of land has been inaccessible to the public for nearly two decades, demarcated by a chain-link fence. That ...