Tacoma WA

An Edgewood street will be closed for two months. According to a Facebook post from the city of Edgewood, 48th Street will be closed to through traffic between 122nd Avenue East and 127th Avenue East starting on Monday, April 27. The post called it a “60-Day Road Closure.” Drivers will be able to use a detour route by using 127th Avenue East, going...

Peninsula School District has added another property to its growing inventory of recent real estate purchases near Peninsula High School. The school board on Tuesday, April 21, approved purchasing a 1.46-acre property at 6412 144th St. NW, west of and adjacent to the Peninsula High School campus. The property includes a 1,358-square-foot, single-story home. The district will pay $669,358.19 (including...

Tacoma-based internet provider Lightcurve last week announced a several philanthropic investments supporting economic growth and downtown communities in Central and Western Washington. Lightcurve has pledged $25,000 to the Economic Development Board for Tacoma-Pierce County, reinforcing efforts to drive regional economic growth, attract new business opportunities, and support workforce-development initiatives, the...

A man in Pierce County was trying to get help because of an issue on Facebook. But instead of a solution, Daniel Fisk Bennett got stuck in a loop with an AI chatbot.

An infant death in Tacoma has been upgraded to a homicide investigation months after the child died in the hospital. At approximately 6:50 p.m. on Feb. 10, the Tacoma Police Department (TPD) responded to the emergency department at Tacoma General Hospital for a report of an infant that died, TPD announced.

TACOMA, Wash. — Step into Tacoma’s new Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital, and COO Ben Whitworth said you enter a world where he hopes every child will see themselves represented. “You have patients who are 3, 7 and 8,” said Whitworth. “And you have patients who are 13,...

Sokphana Soeung, 42, was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for possessing a "tennis ball bomb" during a slow-speed chase on I-90. The incident, which occurred Oct. 12, 2024, shut down the interstate for hours as the bomb squad investigated the device and a second explosive made of sparklers. Soeung...

A man was sentenced Friday for a series of escalating violent crimes targeting women at random across the Seattle area in 2023, including robbery, kidnapping, and rape, the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said. The defendant was convicted of five felonies across three cases: two counts of robbery, one...

Here's a list of Paramount Theatre shows worth the drive to Seattle this spring and summer: a SIFF film screening, 3 Broadway hits, and the Blue Man Group.

The event has been happening for 30 years. This year in Philadelphia, The World Beer Cup is a truly global competition. 273 producers participated in the event this year. 352 medals were handed out. This year, Seattle managed to bring home the gold. Organizers of this event call it the...