The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) has launched an awareness campaign to remind restaurant owners of the need to commit to the installation and maintenance of grease traps. This is in order to ...

Fife relies on Tacoma to accept its sewage, but a restaurant’s battle to open its doors revealed holes in inspection ...

Suppose the city where you live could show up at your house, demand that you dig a giant hole in your driveway or maybe the front lawn, plonk down a concrete box and reroute the pipes from your ...

Restaurant owners are asking town officials for more time to install costly grease-trap systems required under a new regulation meant to prevent municipal sewers from ...

Tacoma restaurant owners say the city’s rules on grease traps are costing them time and money, stifling development and discouraging culinary creativity. They want relief. The City Council, in what it ...

COLUMBIA — Business owners would no longer have to foot the entire bill for a grease trap under a program the Columbia City Council gave initial support to on Sept ...

Driven by a well-intended commitment to public health, the City of Tacoma has painted itself into a bureaucratic corner that punishes small businesses the city claims to support. Reporter Kristine ...