Tacoma WA

Elected officials from Gig Harbor are leery of a state House bill that would prohibit cities and counties from criminalizing camping on public property unless the jurisdictions have adequate shelter beds available. Shea Smiley, the city of Gig Harbor’s housing, health and human services manager, described House Bill...

A man was killed last weekend while trying to flag down help for his stalled vehicle, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office confirmed. The victim, a 67-year-old man, stepped out of his vehicle after his truck stalled on 304th Street E in Eatonville at approximately 1:30 a.m. on Feb. 15. He stood in the opposite lane of...

Nurses at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Tacoma say ICE agents bringing detainees to the hospital often ignore infection-control, privacy, and restraint standards, leading to unsafe conditions for patients and staff. They report agents staying in rooms during intimate care and keeping patients tightly shackled,...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Just three or four minutes from home, Vitali Siumbeli stopped at a red light Sunday morning on his way home from getting gas. Moments later, prosecutors say, another driver traveling at a high rate of speed ran the intersection and slammed into his vehicle — igniting a crash that would leave...

The moment you step within twenty feet of Jack’s BBQ in Seattle’s South Lake Union, your nose takes over and your brain goes primal – smoke, meat, fire, must eat now. This isn’t just another trendy Seattle eatery; it’s a full-blown Texas barbecue embassy on Washington soil where the diplomatic language is spoken...

The Washington State Patrol (WSP) has issued an endangered missing person alert for a mother and son who were last seen on February 14 in Seattle.

King County deputies say the Maple Valley home where they discovered a dead woman and 10 sick children last week had a history of neighbor complaints, code enforcement concerns, and even stolen cars recovered on the property.

In the shadowed corners of Seattle’s underground music scene during the late 1980s, a quiet revolution was brewing. While the city’s coffee houses buzzed with conversations about the future, one guitarist with haunted eyes and calloused fingers was quietly reshaping the landscape of modern rock music. Jerry Cantrell,...

The man was captured after a Police and Deputy pursuit

A Japanese-fusion restaurant is set to make its debut in Tacoma. Katsu Burger, billed as the “Home of the Original Deep-Fried Goodness,” will open at 2805 6th Ave., taking over the former space of The Redd Dog, according to a Facebook post. “It’s official… Katsu Burger Tacoma is...