Tacoma WA

Five people were detained for questioning after a shooting in Fife left two people in critical condition early Thursday morning.

SEATTLE - Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes is sharing his vision for the Seattle Police Department and the city. Just a day after he was sworn in, Barnes held the first of several community forums about making Seattle safer. The chief says he's calling his plan Seattle-Centric Policing, which means...

The recent swarm of small earthquakes at Mount Rainier has not only made national headlines but also history: Researchers have never recorded seismic activity like this before at the active stratovolcano. “It’s now a larger swarm than anything we’ve seen since we’ve been (seismic) monitoring anything at Mount...

SEATAC, Wash. (KOMO) — Sedrick Stevenson, the fugitive who escaped custody at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on May 4, is finally back in Kentucky. And judging from a smiling photo taken on the plane with a sheriff from the Bluegrass state, he didn't seem too upset about it. Stevenson fled...

The King County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help identifying a man who used a stolen credit card at the Burien Fred Meyer store following a vehicle prowl in late May. Police said the incident occurred on May 26, 2025, when the suspect allegedly broke into...

A popular Tacoma restaurant is moving into a larger space downtown as part of an upcoming expansion. Wooden City plans to relocate in 2026 to a newly renovated, 6,500-square-foot space at 1102 Broadway—nearly triple the size of its current home. The new location, at the base of an office...

A Belfair woman died after being struck by a pickup truck on State Route 3 in Silevrdale Wednesday afternoon. According to the Washington State Patrol, the truck was traveling on the onramp from Newberry Hill Road to northbound SR-3 while two SUVs were stopped on the ramp’s gore point with the Belfair woman standing...

NACHES, Wash. – A motorcycle crash on State Route 410 left one man dead on Thursday night. Washington State Patrol said the crash happened 17 miles west of Naches around 7:44 p.m. The crash involved a 1988 Jeep Cherokee driven by a 33-year-old Buckley, Washington, and a 1998 Moto...

What was the only Pierce County Bartell Drugs location to not appear on any official closure list is now among the drugstores set to shut down amid the Rite Aid bankruptcy. The Bartell store, 5500 Olympic Drive in Gig Harbor’s Olympic Village Shopping Center, is among those set to close in the coming months, joining...

The Pierce County Fire Marshal’s Office and county fire chiefs instituted a State 2 burn ban in unincorporated Pierce County on Thursday, July 10. The county had been under a State 1 burn ban since June 1, but that applied only to land clearing and burning yard debris. Stage 2 expands the ban to include all outdoor...