Adam Lynn

A new rail line through Pierce County designed to speed Amtrak service between Seattle and Portland is ready for testing.

Q: Is the state Department of Transportation aware of a homeless encampment that recently appeared near the South 19th Street interchange with state Route 16 in Tacoma, and has any outreach been attempted? — Jill S., Tacoma

Pierce Transit has received a $1.6 million federal grant that will allow it to equip its fleet of buses with vision sensors and other technology to help its drivers avoid collisions.

The $1.5 billion extension of Sound Transit’s light rail line to Federal Way has run into a problem: an elementary school named after an iconic American writer.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord has stopped drawing drinking water for base use from three wells that have been found to contain higher-than-acceptable levels of chemicals once used, among other things, to manufacture fire-retardant foam used on the facility.

Ah, spring, when a young (shaddup!) traffic columnist’s fancy turns to baseball, and, if you were raised by our mother, cleaning.

Construction crews will close the ramp from northbound Interstate 5 to northbound state Route 167, also known as River Road, this weekend so they can prepare a new ramp there for a Monday opening.

State highways across the South Sound could use a good spring cleaning.

It’s called the ‘litter’ tax, but half goes to Washington state parks instead of roadside cleanup

Q: Is it legal to drive without the doors on your vehicle? – a curious reader