Tacoma WA

The Tacoma Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols across the city starting the week of March 24, 2026. Supported by a $215,156 grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, the effort aims to cut down on impaired driving crashes and make Tacoma’s streets safer.

The City of Bonney Lake is starting a leak detection program in the north end of its water service area over the next few weeks. Crews will begin near 190th Avenue East and South Tapps Drive and move around Lake Tapps as the project continues.

The Gig Harbor Municipal Court warns residents about scam text messages pretending to be from the court. These messages demand immediate payment of fines and threaten license suspension, jail, or arrest. The court says it never sends payment requests or threats by text.

Michael Rickman, an Auburn man, was last seen on March 23 around 2 p.m. on Dogwood St SE, near the Muckleshoot Casino Resort.

By early summer 1919, with World War I over, many soldiers were on their way home. But for hundreds hospitalized at Camp Lewis, now JBLM, home was still a long way off. To help cheer them up, the Tacoma Rose Society and the YMCA hosted a rose show. Annual Tacoma...

A 34-year-old pregnant woman who was randomly attacked by a squirrel at Browns Point last week said she was putting her 5-year-old daughter in her car when she felt something run up her back and onto her head. “I jumped back from the car, and I realized, ‘Oh my God, it’s a squirrel,’” Federal Way resident Alysha K....

TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma man is facing multiple felony charges, including attempted first-degree murder, after prosecutors say he chased down a car of teenagers, robbed them at gunpoint, and shot one in the chest following a dispute involving a thrown water balloon. Majeed Guerry, 31, is charged in...

Seattle Police Department Detective Denise “Cookie” Bouldin reached a $750,000 settlement with the City of Seattle in February, city public records obtained by MyNorthwest revealed.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND -- Dolly Mama greeted visitors to a new home on Winslow Way the second week of March, marking the boutique's third location since Michelle Kammer founded the shop in Gig Harbor 12 years ago. Formerly the home of longstanding boutique Heart, the storefront is one that had a place in Kammer's memory...

The menus at many Thai restaurants in America can be overwhelmingly long. They leave too much choice in the hands of diners who will lean on the familiar, or who insist on only eating white-meat chicken even though the dish in its native country might typically be served exclusively with bone-in drumettes or perhaps...