Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and others terrorized the Pacific Northwest. "Murderland" asks what role polluters played.

When Fraser looked at the Washington Department of Ecology’s map of lead and arsenic contamination, she saw four plumes: The fallout from Asarco’s Tacoma smelter, another smelter plume in ...

When Fraser looked at the Washington Department of Ecology’s map of lead and arsenic contamination, she saw four plumes: The fallout from Asarco’s Tacoma smelter, another smelter plume in ...

In this case, the lead- and arsenic-poisoned plume that flowed from Asarco’s metal smelter northwest of Tacoma, which operated for almost a century and polluted more than 1,000 square miles of ...

Many of these “rare breed” serial killers had “spent quality time in Tacoma, a place where paraphilias flourish like fungi,” she writes.

In her new book, "Murderland," Caroline Fraser argues that the rise of these criminals has deep roots in the release of ...

ASARCO ended up all over the country, but Tacoma proved particularly attractive for its potential access to minerals. For nearly a century, a smokestack hundreds of feet high shot lead and arsenic ...

In an interview with The News Tribune last week, Communities for a Healthy Bay identified these four businesses as the most concerning polluters to Commencement Bay.

Chemical pollution from commercial facilities in and around the Tacoma Tideflats and the Port of Tacoma is bad for fish and has other adverse effects, according to a recent report from a local ...

In an interview with The News Tribune last week, Communities for a Healthy Bay identified these four businesses as the most concerning polluters to Commencement Bay.