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 ...

Instead the business last year recycled 27,000 pounds of grease, which was processed and re-used by Sanimax USA, in a plant in South St. Paul. Tinucci said it would cost $4,000 to $10,000 to install ...

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 ...