A 34-foot-tall saw with spinning gears taller than a man soon will be back on Tacoma’s Ruston Way waterfront. Cambia Health Solutions is giving $2.93 million to restore the 15-ton saw and create space ...

A stop along Tacoma’s revitalized Ruston Way, the expansion of Dickman Mill Park serves as a testament to how waterfront development can balance history, environmental resilience and community ...

Crews have begun pulling the first of some 1,200 polluted pilings that once supported a sawmill on Tacoma’s waterfront. The site is one of “The Filthy Four,” according to the state Department of ...

A project is officially underway to remove the toxic remnants of the historic Dickman Mill along Tacoma’s waterfront. The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Aquatic Derelict Structures Program is ...

Walkers along Tacoma’s Ruston Way and sunbathers at Titlow Beach have seen them for decades: pilings — the aquatic cousins of telephone poles. Once used to support wharves and piers, many of the ...

Tacoma was once considered one of the largest lumber cites in the world. Now, an iconic 30-foot tall head saw from the Dickman Saw Mill will return to Ruston Way. For years, Metro Parks in Tacoma has ...

The first of approximately 1,200 pilings are being pulled up this week at the site of the old Dickman Mill, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 in Tacoma, Wash. (Brian Hayes/bhayes@thenewstribune.com) Crews have ...