Tacoma WA

VANTAGE, Wash. — Two people were hurt Monday morning in an injury crash on I-90 about three miles east of Vantage, according to the Washington State Patrol (WSP). One vehicle was heading west when it left the roadway onto the north shoulder and hit a guardrail. The vehicle then...

The Tacoma Public Library has teamed up with the American Heart Association for its Libraries with Heart initiative. TPL patrons can now check out blood pressure-monitoring kits from eight different locations. Each kit comes with an AHA-validated monitor and cuff with instructions in English and Spanish. Kits can be ch

Summer officially arrives Sunday, June 21, and Gig Harbor will celebrate at the sixth annual Fest4All Make Music Day at Uptown. The festivities begin at noon with music by the Harbor Ukulele Group playing at Kindship, segueing into the all-invited Pizza Box Percussion Parade through the shopping center. Four stages...

Several Washington counties have reported technical difficulties and outages with the state’s 911 service provider. The disruptions, which appear to have been mostly resolved, spanned from western Washington to eastern Washington. Kittitas County. The Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office reported that the issue was resolve

Two military aircraft crashes occurred in the United States within two days, with one involving an F/A-18 Hornet in Seattle and the other a B-52 Stratofortress in California. Two military aircraft crashes occurred in the United States within just two days, and there are plenty of questions waiting to be answered.

A 50-year-old woman accused of hitting and killing her husband while attempting to load a pontoon-style boat onto a trailer on Saturday at Long Lake near Lacey was released from the Thurston County Jail on bail of $10,000. Christine Terese Mango attended her preliminary appearance in Thurston County Superior Court on M

A Parkland burger truck landed in the hot seat last week after a routine Pierce County inspection tallied 100 red critical points, a striking number for a mobile unit. Even with that, the truck still held an overall “Okay” grade on the county’s four-inspection scale, but inspectors cited a cluster of food safety failur

Seattle and King County owe the King County Regional Homelessness Authority around $8 million, KCRHA associate director William Towey told the County Council’s committee of the whole last week, referring to the $8 million in spending that, according to a forensic audit, “could not be reconciled” by auditors and “may ha

SEATTLE — Two people were injured in a shooting in Seattle on Monday night, according to the Seattle Police Department. Firefighters responded to the 5200 block of Mithun Place Northeast for reports of a shooting. Crews treated a 41-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman. Both people were in stable condition and taken to

Update, 3:17 p.m.: Downed electrical lines caused a small brush fire near the Wright Bliss fire station, the Key Peninsula Fire Department posted on Facebook at 2:20 p.m. Key Peninsula Fire spokesperson Anne Nesbit confirmed in a text message around 3:15 p.m. that the fire is out. Peninsula Light Co. posted on X at 2:3