Tacoma WA

This year brings a fresh range of wildly good concerts, featuring New Orleans jazz to country and hip hop, as well as comedy performances.

The Washington Middle School cafeteria, circa 1997, served the best french fries in the world. I’ve been chasing that exact medium-thin, fresh-from-the-fryer, extra-salty high for almost three decades. Since my time machine never quite works right, and I have, in the intervening years, expanded to other sizes and...

Hyun Kim is set to serve as Tacoma’s new city manager, a position that plays a critical role in the city’s council-manager form of government. The Tacoma City Council in a unanimous vote at its March 3 meeting selected Kim, who has since last year served as Tacoma’s interim city manager, after he participated in a...

Pierce County shoppers are in for a small bump at the register after the County Council voted 5–2 on Tuesday to approve a one-tenth of 1% sales tax dedicated to public safety, a new stream projected to raise about $30 million a year. Roughly 80% of that money is slated to keep the county court system and the...

Daniel Hardebeck, a retired school teacher, was out for a jog Tuesday morning on Ruston Way when he came across what appeared to be plane wreckage washed up on the shore of Commencement Bay. The crumpled metal debris, approximately the size of a queen-sized mattress, showed a bold vertical number and remnants of...

LeMay — America’s Car Museum has officially unveiled its long-awaited specialty license plate, which is now available through the Washington State Department of Licensing. The new plate directly supports the museum’s mission as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, with proceeds going toward the preservation and...

Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked about monitoring for “sleeper cells” after the military conflict in Iran.

An early morning rollover on southbound Interstate 5 in Pierce County left a driver ejected from his vehicle, then took a startling turn when a passerby who stopped to help said the man pointed a gun at him. The crash happened just south of the King County line, and the Good Samaritan was not hurt.

A health and wellness-focused eatery is set to open in downtown Tacoma this summer. Eternal Soul Bowl, owned by Jewel Randolph, will open its second location at 767 Market St., joining its flagship spot in Sumner. “It had been something that I wanted to do, but I just didn’t know...

Roasted and puréed with plentiful spices until silky-smooth, owner Regina Gray calls it her “secret sauce.” It forms the foundation of a classic pie, the crust made from scratch with “love, butter, sugar, Crisco,” presumably in that order. It’s also folded into an eye-catching crescent of a turnover, the exterior...