Tacoma WA

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Residents around Gig Harbor gathered Saturday afternoon for a community vigil meant to bring people together after a series of violent and traumatic events in the area over the past two months. Organizer Pamela Cumble said the event was meant to honor multiple victims and...

Gig Harbor is testing the waters on breaking off from Pierce County, with one resident leading a formal effort to see whether a brand-new “Peninsula County” could actually work. The concept would pull Gig Harbor, the Key Peninsula and nearby islands into a separate jurisdiction that backers say is geographically...

Nearly five decades after partial human remains were discovered in woods south of Mount Rainier, Pierce County investigators say the man has been identified as William Nelson "Bill" Church Jr. The identification, reached through modern DNA and genealogical methods, finally brought answers to a son who had been...

BELLEVUE, Wash. (WKRC) - A man allegedly waited for someone to hit with his car, eventually murdering an 88-year-old woman before going on a hit-and-run spree that involved two more victims. According to court documents obtained by local outlet KIRO, 68-year-old Mark Adams was "lying in wait for a pedestrian...

Hours of desperate 911 calls, a nurse line that kept her in limbo, and an ambulance that did not show up until it was far too late. That is how the family of Seattle resident Pamela Hogan describes the night of April 8, 2022, when they say she waited roughly 10 hours for help that never truly arrived. Hogan was later...

The Pierce County Sheriff’s department is investigating a homicide at the 500 block of 112th Street East in Parkland. At around 9:03 a.m., deputies arrived at the Terravista apartments parking lot to find an 18-year-old male dead in a vehicle with gunshot wounds, Detective Joshua Mills told The News Tribune.

Fuego, a trendy gift shop at the Tacoma Mall, is set to close March 17. The chain store sells a variety of T-shirts, accessories, jewelry and toys. Everything is 50% off until the last day, and clearance items are an additional 50% off. Fuego has just over a dozen other locations, mostly across the West Coast,...

On Wednesday, March 4, a redditor named “quackedup17” was hiking with his dog, Lucy, in Point Defiance Park when he came across something he’d never seen before: a memorial plaque nailed into a tree with a darkly funny message: “In memory of our brother Dave. We would have Got him a bench. But he still owed us $300.”...

Next month a new 6,000-square-foot thrift store is expected to open in Puyallup, run by the Skoolie Foundation , whose mission is to help folks transition out of homelessness. Founder and board chair Brandon Simmons gave The News Tribune a tour of the space Monday. Tucked in an alley behind the Safeway and McLendons...

SEATTLE — A multi-vehicle crash shut down lanes of Interstate 5 in Seattle for several hours early Sunday, according to the Washington State Patrol (WSP). WSP said three vehicles were involved in the collision on northbound Interstate 5 near the West Seattle Freeway just before 3:30 a.m. Investigators determined...