Tacoma WA

SPOKANE, Wash. — A man convicted of killing a man in Tacoma and two separate assault charges in Spokane was sentenced to life in prison without parole this week under Washington state's "Three Strikes" law. A Spokane County Superior Court judge sentenced 55-year-old Ian Irizarry to life in prison...

Tanya Marie Frazier finished her summer school class at her Washington middle school on July 18, 1994. The 14-year-old, however, never made it to her Seattle home after leaving Meany Middle School, the Seattle Police Department said in a Nov. 5 news release. Tanya vanished. Her body was later found by a man walking...

Michael Marks, a convicted felon with 45 prior bench warrants, was arrested in the early morning of November 2nd after a high-speed pursuit near SeaTac. He was allegedly caught with meth and fentanyl following a crash and foot chase, and has been charged with DUI and attempting to elude police.

Nearly one million people in Washington use SNAP benefits. Many are left trying to figure out how to feed their pets.

Why did the suspect cross the road? To escape arrest and hitch a ride on a box truck along the way, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. A 31-year-old man was booked into the Pierce County Jail Tuesday after an on-foot police chase across Highway 512 in what the Pierce County Sheriff spokesperson Carly...

Thousands of people across Western Washington are without power after weather-driven outages affecting Tacoma Public Utilities, Peninsula Light Company and Puget Sound Energy. About 2,800 Tacoma Power customers lack power from 6 outages, with the majority occurring in Puyallup near Summit View, according to the...

After The News Tribune published a story last month about a busy roadway that Northeast Tacoma residents are concerned about, some commenters online speculated about the cause of the danger and local law enforcement’s response to it. Through various inquiries and public-records requests to local law enforcement...

TACOMA, Wash. — A man died and two more people were airlifted to the hospital after a serious collision on the Hood Canal Bridge Thursday, according to the Washington State Patrol (WSP). The WSP said a driver in a 2006 Toyota truck heading eastbound attempted to make a U-turn...

Governor Bob Ferguson completed a week-long visit to Western State Hospital in Lakewood, Washington, on October 28, 2025. The visit was part of a commitment he made before taking office to better understand the state’s behavioral health system. During the week, Ferguson met with hospital leadership, Department of...

The Washington State Patrol said weather conditions caused the tree to fall.