Tacoma WA

The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has rescinded a $3 million grant it gave the Low Income Housing Institute to build 60 new low-barrier tiny houses outside King County’s youth detention center, claiming LIHI delayed the process by failing to secure a site in time. Tiny houses are small,...

You come across a new forensic report claiming Kurt Cobain’s 1994 death may have been staged to look like a suicide, and the police have just responded. The Medical Examiner and Seattle Police still stand by the original suicide ruling and say they won’t reopen the case without new, compelling evidence. This piece...

Multiple people were detained in a drug bust Feb. 12 at an East Bremerton house that police say has attracted repeated calls for almost a year. Just after 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office announced that they had taken into custody six people from a house in the 2100 block of Larkin Lane,...

Estes has expanded into the Pacific Northwest with the acquisition of a family-run company out of Washington. The press release announcing the acquisition was published on February 12th. Key Trucking is based out of Kent, Washington. “Our priority was finding a partner that could provide good service and expanded...

(‘Site plan’ from city permit filings) Two and a half weeks after we broke the news of a West Seattle site proposed for up to 72 RVs and 20 tiny houses [7201 2nd SW, map] – after which, our followup inquiries were largely met with “too soon to comment” – more details are finally emerging:

Like the view of Mt. Rainier when the fog lifts over Hale Passage, details of the proposed new Fox Island Bridge grew clearer last week when Pierce County released its long-promised final Type, Size, and Location Study for the bridge replacement project. The final TSL study, prepared by consultants HDR...

Pierce County will receive more than $2.7 million in state funding through the Connecting Housing to Infrastructure Program (CHIP) to support three affordable housing projects that will expand housing options for residents across the county. The Washington State Department of Commerce announced $54.5 million in CHIP...

This Valentine's Day, you want a burning love, not a burning house, firefighters said.

FIFE, Wash. - Morning commutes were snarled in the Fife area on Friday as a crash turned into a larger scene involving Washington State Patrol. One man was taken to jail, one victim was hospitalized and hundreds of motorists were stuck in traffic by mid-morning. Timeline: — Around 9 a.m....

A Tacoma man remained in custody Friday after he was arrested for allegedly using approximately $8,000 worth of fake checks to buy lumber from stores in Centralia and Tumwater. Stewart M. Riggs, ...