Tacoma WA

The man convicted of trying to murder a woman walking alone on a trail at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Park in a stabbing attack foiled by other park goers was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison. A jury found Nicholas Fitzgerald Matthew guilty of attempted first-degree murder in August for the February 2024 attack. Sinc

TACOMA, WA – The Puyallup Tribe and Tacoma Public Schools, together with Visa, Street Soccer USA, and Bank of America, have opened a new soccer park on Tacoma’s eastside. The Visa Street Soccer Park is located on the northeast side of the former Gault Middle School property, next to Tacoma Public Schools’ future IDEA s

Edgewood will have its first city-sponsored fireworks show July 3 to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary. On May 26, the city council unanimously authorized $14,120, which represents $1 per Edgewood citizen, to go to the one-time fireworks’ event. Mayor Dave Olson told The News Tribune via email that he asked the c

The Sound Transit Board approved a plan Thursday that keeps the light-rail extension to Tacoma on track for a scheduled 2035 completion, shaping the future of transit in Pierce County and the region. Passed during a roughly six-hour meeting that included several amendments, the update to Sound Transit 3 (ST3) addressed

After a seven-hour marathon meeting on Thursday, the Sound Transit Board approved an updated 20-year system plan aimed at addressing a $34.5 billion funding gap.

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — The entire Wild Waves Theme and Water Park property would be cleared and replaced with a roughly 1 million-square-foot warehouse under newly disclosed project plans. According to project plans submitted May 13 to the City of Federal Way, the proposed Panattoni Project Podium would redevelop...

TACOMA, Wash. — Several months after being found guilty of attempted murder in the brutal stabbing of a woman in Point Defiance Park, Nicholas Matthew is once again scheduled to be sentenced for that crime in Pierce County Friday afternoon. The victim, Victoria Nizzoli, was walking the trails in...

A woman from Eatonville died after a fatal crash in Puyallup on Thursday. According to the Pierce County Medical Examiner Office’s public portal , the woman is 76-year-old Marcella Magdalena Leiter. The News Tribune previously reported on the two-vehicle crash, which happened at 33rd Street Southeast and Pioneer Way Ea

What started as a routine warehouse fire call in Pacific last weekend turned into something far stranger, as firefighters stumbled onto a sprawling indoor marijuana grow and a set of bear traps waiting by the doors. Valley Regional Fire Authority crews responded to a 911 report of a warehouse blaze...

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