Tacoma WA

A Seattle couple is now in need of a new place to live after the ceiling in their apartment collapsed while they were home.

Get ready for a yearlong, $6.8 million major construction project in Kent along West Meeker Street between Washington Avenue and the Interurban Trail. It’s part of the city’s next phase of the Meet Me on Meeker project, which has been completed west of Washington Avenue to the Green River. Construction starts April 13 and continues until spring 2027, according to the city of Kent...

Bren Plummer smiled widely as he played his upright bass along with a talented septet of musicians from the jazz band at Curtis High School in University Place. It was a joyful session, even down to the band’s original blues, written by pianist Kaiden Skinner. In his first year...

Pierce County has announced that it is accepting proposals for affordable housing development and preservation projects through May 15. The funded projects will create new housing units and preserve existing ones over the next one to four years. The $11 million in available funding will support the acquisition, construction, and...

Kent Police arrested a 40-year-old Kent man for allegedly stabbing to death a 31-year-old man found lying on a sidewalk along West Meeker Street. Joseph Christopher Moore died from a stab wound of shoulder, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, which ruled the death a homicide. Officers...

TACOMA, Wash. — A Pierce County judge resentenced Randy Philip Capps to 46 years in prison for the 1995 case tied to the killing of Marietta D. Dela Cruz on Friday. Capps was originally sentenced to life without parole. In a sentencing memorandum filed in January, Capps’ attorney asked...

Masthi Bar & Grill in downtown Kent, which features Indian cuisine, opened earlier this year at 320 W. Harrison St. The Kent Downtown Partnership had a grand opening and ribbon cutting on April 7 for the restaurant, which is at the former site of Airways Bistro and Beer Garden, which closed in late 2024.

Officers responded to a home in Puyallup, Wash., around 9:10 a.m. on April 2 after a reported family dispute

The Elks Temple in Tacoma turns 110 this year, but it doesn’t look a day over 50. That’s thanks to McMenamins, the Portland-based chain that acquired the building in 2009 and transformed it into the sprawling, ornate, multifaceted edifice that Tacoma knows today. McMenamins celebrates the Elks Temple’s 110th birthday on Saturday, and visitors can expect to find a party in each corner...

A natural gas leak in Milton is causing evacuations, closures and emergency repairs Friday afternoon after a gas line was struck during construction work, East Pierce Fire shared on Facebook. Units from East Pierce Fire, Milton Police Department and Puget Sound Energy responded to a leak at the intersection of 23rd Avenue and Milton Way around at around 3 p.m. Crews evacuated all houses...