The relationship with the Point Ruston developer and the City of Ruston has reached a boiling point, and the city wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in. The City of Ruston sent the ...

Point Ruston is a developer’s dream, an upscale, mixed-use retail paradise on Tacoma’s waterfront, but it lacks one famous Northwest feature: trees. The development is the first of its kind. The ...

The small city of Ruston passed two new laws Tuesday night related to construction, partially in response to issues it has encountered with the developer of the urban village Point Ruston. People who ...

The federal Environmental Protection Agency ordered Asarco to finish cleaning up its Ruston, Wash., smelter site regardless of the company's precarious financial condition. Under the 40-page order, ...

TACOMA — Asarco will pay $200 million to clean up toxic contamination from its operations in Washington state, including its former smelter in Ruston. The News Tribune reported Sunday the agreement is ...

WASHINGTON -- The 562-foot smokestack still casts a long shadow. For nearly a century it emitted a plume of arsenic, lead and other heavy metals from Asarco's copper smelter in Ruston, blanketing ...

The United States Federal government reached an agreement to clean up Asarco’s smelter sites in Tacoma and Ruston, Wash. The agreement, between the government and Asarco, calls for the company to sell ...

TONYA BALES was out with the hose, sprinkling her lawn with a mixture of chemical growth booster. What could it hurt? “What’s a few more chemicals?” she says on the sidewalk to her small rental home ...

TACOMA -- Asarco will pay $200 million to clean up toxic contamination from its operations in Washington state, including its former smelter in Ruston. The News Tribune reported Sunday that the ...