Tacoma WA

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) says a man is in custody after he was seen wielding a large knife and threatening to kill others at Spanaway Lake Park on Friday night.

Pierce County quietly paid $20,000 to settle a lawsuit after a Pierce County Sheriff’s Office K‑9 bit a man who says he was working under his car in the South Hill area in December 2022. The man, identified in court filings as Harold Ashworth, was never charged in connection with the incident, but later sued the...

Auburn police are investigating a homicide after a woman was shot at a home on 125th Court Southeast. Officers say a man has been taken into custody, and investigators believe the shooting may be related to domestic violence.

Lakeland Town Center, a fully leased shopping center in Auburn, has hit the market. The four-year-old shopping center, which primarily serves the Lakeland Hills and Lake Tapps neighborhoods, is being marketed by JLL on behalf of owner EDENS, a Washington, D.C.-based owner, operator and developer of open-air retail...

In partnership with Goodwill of the Olympics & Rainier Region, the City of Milton will be hosting special donation events. Drop off gently used clothing, household items, small appliances, books, and other items that can be given a second life on the 1st Wednesday of each month from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM at Milton City...

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office is looking for the person or people who shot someone outside of an apartment complex.

Pierce County Executive Ryan Mello on Monday rolled out a proposal for a six-month moratorium that would halt the siting, expansion or establishment of involuntary detention facilities in unincorporated Pierce County. The pause would stop the county from accepting permit applications for uses that involuntarily...

In a tragic incident on the Key Peninsula, 32-year-old Aleksandr Shablykin killed his mother and three neighbors before being fatally shot by responding deputies. Family members revealed that Shablykin struggled with medication compliance for his mental health, which they believe led to the sudden, violent...

The King County Medical Examiner’s Office on Monday, Mar. 16 identified the woman who died in a three-vehicle crash on I-5 in SeaTac early Sunday as Nadezhda S. Gorbachenko, a […] The post King County Medical Examiner’s Office identifies victim of fatal I-5 crash in SeaTac first appeared on The SeaTac Blog .

When a Tacoma newborn’s heart began to fail, surgeons at Seattle Children’s stepped in with a high‑wire move: a transfusion‑free open‑heart repair that kept donor blood entirely out of the operating room. The baby needed correction of a complex congenital heart defect that usually calls for transfusions, yet...