Called Tacoma (or Tahoma) by generations of Northwest Native Americans, Mount Rainier was named after Admiral Peter Rainier in 1792 by English explorer George Vancouver, who sighted the enormous ...

Parody accounts for Mount Rainier (left) and Mount Hood have been battling it out online. Photos: Wolfgang ...

Mount Rainier has yet to announce whether it will ... Matt Wakefield, chief marketing and data officer for the Tacoma-Pierce County Tourism authority, said they simply don’t know when or if ...

The city’s website says that was a mix of federal and state funds, with the Port of Tacoma also contributing ... a bridge and we can’t do it if Mount Rainier starts getting unsettled.