ORTING, Wash. -- Crews in Pierce County are working around the clock repairing a giant levee breach. Seven hundred feet of land washed out on the Puyallup river near Orting, putting 27 homes at ...

{p}The new levee on the Puyallup River in Orting survived its first big test with flying colors. Yesterday's flooding was the 4th biggest since 1962 and officials say it could have inundated parts ...

The setback levee put in several years ago is doing its trick of widening the river at Orting. Some of the low-lying homes have floodwaters in the yards, but nothing near homes, not yet anyway.

A single juvenile coho salmon, netted and released last March, is the bellwether fish that shows how a clear vision and sustained effort can restore river habitat to support salmon runs. This ...

Later, in the Fife area, officials urged voluntary evacuations for more than 5,400 homes as a three-mile stretch of the Puyallup River breached the levee between I-5 and 66th Avenue East.

The Puyallup Police Department says a group of fishermen called 911 after they spotted a dead body moving downriver. It happened just east of 66th Avenue East on North Levee Road East.

A roadway in Fife is temporary closed Tuesday near the Puyallup River. North Levee Road East in both directions between the Milroy Bridge/66th Avenue East and 70th Avenue East is closed, the Fife ...

The body of Enrique Aviles, 39, was found in the Puyallup River on May 27, 2025. Police confirm he was a missing person, with no foul play suspected.

If driving your car into a river isn’t bad enough, being arrested afterward made for a very bad Monday for one driver in Fife. At 7 p.m. Monday, Pierce County deputies and swift water and dive ...

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