Tacoma WA

Two dogs were rescued from I-405 by a Washington State Patrol trooper this week.

A husband returned home from work to find his wife, son, and dog dead with apparent gunshot wounds in Pierce County on Tuesday. At approximately 1:27 p.m., Pierce County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deputies responded to reports of a homicide in the 7400 block of 185th Avenue N.W. on the Key Peninsula, PCSO announced.

A pretrial hearing has been continued to March 2 in Kent Municipal Court for the two Golden Steer restaurant owners charged for allegedly buying and selling stolen alcohol. Mohammed F. Alsadi, 33, and Widad G. Defar, 35, who are married and live in Kent, were represented during a Jan. 26 hearing by Kent defense...

This week red and green shipping containers on a cargo ship moored at the Port of Tacoma were arranged to spell the word “Renee” . Some passersby and people online were quick to assume it was a reference to 37-year-old Renee Good , who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in...

The Tides Tavern, recently acquired by Anthony’s Restaurants, is closed for a month for kitchen maintenance. The Gig Harbor institution made the announcement in a Facebook post on Monday, Jan. 26. Anthony’s announced on Jan. 13 that it was purchasing the Tides from the Stanley family of Gig Harbor....

A Kent man was sentenced to prison for robbing an Auburn bank at gunpoint in May 2025. On Jan. 23, following a guilty plea on Dec. 23, 2025, a King County Superior Court Judge sentenced Michael Peter Esposito, 64, whose last known address was in Kent, to 129 months — nearly 11 years — in prison for first-degree...

SEATTLE, WA — A Tacoma man was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison for his role in a drug trafficking organization that moved large quantities of narcotics into Western Washington, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office

An investigation is ongoing after two climbers were found dead at Mount Rainier National Park last week. Jiri Richter , 51 of Seattle, and Benjamin Watson, 35 of Seattle, were the men found dead on Jan. 20 near Wilson Glacier, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office. Richter died of multiple...

Seattle area residents flooded our inboxes with reactions to the airport's push to use "SEA" as its preferred shorthand instead of Sea-Tac, with many seeing the new nickname as a snub to Tacoma. The big picture: Many locals see the airport's yearslong rebranding effort as dropping part of its identity...

KENT, Wash. — The trial has started for a man charged with the murders of a man and a woman whose bodies were discovered in a bush in Maple Valley in 2023. During opening statements Wednesday morning in King County Superior Court in Kent, prosecutors said Brandon Gerner, 42, conspired with his best friend, Kody...