Tacoma WA

Scene: late summer 1974. Olympic Peninsula, Lake Sutherland campground. Under an oil lamp gently swaying in the night breeze, two brothers are locked in a game of chess. Actually, not one game but many because, as the younger sibling keeps winning, his frustrated brother slams his hand on the picnic table at each...

More cans, less trash. The City of Tacoma is adding hundreds of bins to the city's commercial and business districts to proactively cut down on litter.

They call Owen Marshall “The Mule.” The nickname was born when he was just eight years old. When Marshall first proved stubborn, his father coined it. Tahoma head coach Chris Feist kept it going. Teammates now call him “The Mule,” too. “Stubborn son of a gun,” Feist smiled. In a good way? “In a crack-your-neck and...

There’s plenty of excitement in the Tacoma food and drink scene this year, but there are still plenty of vacancies. In curating our list of restaurants, bars and bakeries set to open in 2026, we were left wondering about the ones that recently closed and the spaces that seem to be in some sort of constant turmoil....

Tacoma, Washington - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement abducted and held a 65-year-old British woman who was in the country on a valid tourist visa at a detention center for six weeks. When a simple error was noticed at the Canadian border, Karen Newton and her 66-year-old husband, Bill, were turned back to get...

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SEATTLE — At least five businesses in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood say they have been hit by break-ins or vandalism since the start of the year, leaving some owners frustrated and calling for more police presence. From shattered storefront windows to a refrigeration unit ripped apart for copper, the...

Multiple locations, many events, February 27th through March 8th. For the first decade, Tacoma Beer Week competed with everything else happening during the Pacific Northwest’s always busy late summer (August), but last year the organizers moved the celebration earlier in the year, where it now stands alone as a...

The new Pacific Middle School is growing. The site camera shows structural steel expanding the classroom wing on the south side of the construction site nearly to its full length along South 227th Place. Crews are installing the roofing barrier and framing the exterior walls of the gym. The final...

This February marks the fourth annual Black Artists Exhibition at The Gallery at Tacoma Community College. The show, which opened on Feb. 11, assembles a stunning array of Black artists, of various disciplines, from around the South Sound. Featuring 20 artists, the show is vibrant and eclectic, at times joyous,...