Tacoma WA

A 41-year-old man died at the Rainier Beach library just after 3pm February 13 after library staffers tried but were unable to revive him with Narcan and CPR. The library shut down for the rest of the afternoon. According to library spokeswoman Laura Gentry, library patrons “alerted staff that there...

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — Court records show a long history of protection orders and reported threats at the Key Peninsula home where four people were stabbed to death and a 32-year-old suspect was shot and killed by law enforcement. On Wednesday, property and court records, neighbor accounts and family...

The King County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a homicide and arrested one person. According to the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO), at about 1:45 p.m. Feb. 24, in the 28700 block of 34th Avenue at an Auburn address in unincorporated King County, deputies responded to a welfare check. The KCSO reported that...

Gurpreet Kaur, 42, of Gig Harbor died in a Feb. 18 collision at the intersection of Burnham and Purdy drives. The Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office identified Kaur as the woman who died in the collision. The office ruled her death an accident. Kaur, driving a Volkswagon Jetta, tried...

A woman killed in a stabbing at a house near Wauna on Tuesday, Feb. 24, had been granted protection orders against her adult son twice in the past five years. Various media reports this week identified the woman, 52-year-old Zoya Shablykina, as one of five people who died at a home on 87th Avenue Court NW.

KENT, Wash. — Teachers, parents, and students packed several rooms at the Kent School District (KSD) building for a school board meeting Wednesday night, after news spread that more than 100 teachers were potentially at risk of losing their jobs. The Kent Education Association (KEA) said over 400 provisional...

The state of Washington is an outlier with its reliance on sales and property tax , as opposed to corporate or personal income tax. Seattle and Tacoma rank first and second for highest combined state and local sales tax rates among major U.S. cities, according to the Tax Foundation . How does the total sales tax rate...

A 30-year-old man in Washington state is accused of killing his own mother, allegedly choking and "curb stomping" her to death inside her condominium before burying her beneath a pile of blankets. Antony Ton Le was taken into custody on Tuesday and charged with one count of criminal homicide in...

Two Seattle brothers are suddenly facing life without either parent after a weekend crash that killed their mother and father. The loss has rattled relatives and neighbors, with family video capturing the raw shock as friends rushed to the scene. As investigators work to sort out what happened, the community is...

A 13-year-old boy from Auburn, who slipped out of his home on his bike in the early morning hours Thursday, has been found in North Seattle after going missing.