Tacoma WA

Seattle’s streets tell a story, but what’s the narrative surrounding those who serve and protect? Let’s look at the numbers and the sentiments shaping police recruitment.

Rebecca Marker intended to renovate her home to allow her Mom to move in with her. After paying a contractor $36,000, she received an email they were shutting down.

Of the 1,019 arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported in King County in 2025, at least 25 arrests are listed as taking place in Federal Way, according to data from the University of Washington’s Center for Human Rights (UWCHR). The UWCHR report is drawn from a...

Seattle diners are quietly rewriting their night-out playbooks as restaurant tabs inch higher month after month. Across the city, people are skipping that extra cocktail, downsizing orders and swapping white-tablecloth evenings for lower-priced counter-service spots, from neighborhood favorites to national chains....

The Tacoma Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols across the city starting the week of March 24, 2026. Supported by a $215,156 grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission, the effort aims to cut down on impaired driving crashes and make Tacoma’s streets safer.

The City of Bonney Lake is starting a leak detection program in the north end of its water service area over the next few weeks. Crews will begin near 190th Avenue East and South Tapps Drive and move around Lake Tapps as the project continues.

The Gig Harbor Municipal Court warns residents about scam text messages pretending to be from the court. These messages demand immediate payment of fines and threaten license suspension, jail, or arrest. The court says it never sends payment requests or threats by text.

Michael Rickman, an Auburn man, was last seen on March 23 around 2 p.m. on Dogwood St SE, near the Muckleshoot Casino Resort.

By early summer 1919, with World War I over, many soldiers were on their way home. But for hundreds hospitalized at Camp Lewis, now JBLM, home was still a long way off. To help cheer them up, the Tacoma Rose Society and the YMCA hosted a rose show. Annual Tacoma...

A 34-year-old pregnant woman who was randomly attacked by a squirrel at Browns Point last week said she was putting her 5-year-old daughter in her car when she felt something run up her back and onto her head. “I jumped back from the car, and I realized, ‘Oh my God, it’s a squirrel,’” Federal Way resident Alysha K....