For a short window of time, visitors to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium will be in the presence of an unusual sight. The zoo’s botanical garden has been the home and caretaker to an Agave parryi var.

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life. “Meet Agave ...

TACOMA, Wash. — After nearly 20 years, a rare agave plant is in full bloom at Tacoma's Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. The zoo said a mature Agave parryi var. truncata in the Desert Garden is in full ...

Matt Dewitz, a skilled trades millwright at the General Motors aluminum foundry in Defiance, and one of GM’s nearly 7,000 skilled trades employees across the U.S., has spent his 30-year GM career on ...

The water tower at General Motors Powertrains Defiance plant is being disassembled this week because it hasnt been utilized for several years. The company has other means to meet its water needs, said ...