Home & Garden
Remodeling with respect: When they were house shopping six years ago in Tacoma’s North End, Fred and Nancy Schuneman discovered the up-and-down quandary of buying an old 1920s craftsman-style home.

Special Projects
Inside the foreclosure market: Pierce County’s foreclosure rate is the highest in Washington. So far this year, more than 5,000 homeowners in the county have received letters notifying them that, because they’ve fallen behind in their mortgage payments, their house will be sold at public auction.