Tacoma WA

A Parkland man who was found dead in a vehicle earlier this month has been identified as 18-year-old Jack Raymon Lamar Bartlett. Bartlett died from multiple gunshot wounds on March 7 in Parkland from a homicide, according to the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office through their public portal. Deputies were...

The Cat & Rabbitt, the Tacoma-born cake bakery that speedily amassed a cult following when it opened with just a walk-up window on Sixth Avenue in 2020, will return to its hometown this spring after a nearly two-year hiatus. Owners Terryn Abbitt and Julia (Catherine) Brown confirmed Friday they would open a slice...

Facing budget pressures and declining enrollment, the new superintendent of Seattle Public Schools is turning his attention to what he believes is an oversized administrative structure within the district.

Samuel Ramirez Jr., a suspect in the 2023 double murder of two women in Federal Way, was captured just one hour and 13 minutes after being added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on Tuesday. The FBI had increased the reward for information leading to his arrest...

Salish Sea – Over the past few weeks, scientists have been closely watching a group of orcas that had never been documented in our local waters before. SR3, a local nonprofit dedicated to marine wildlife research and rehabilitation, reports that the whales were first spotted in British Columbia before appearing in...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — Pierce County prosecutors have asked Sheriff Keith Swank to take down a social-media post where he said the Sheriff’s Office would not hire noncitizens. Prosecutors told Swank his statement is contrary to law and policy, and it could leave him and the county liable.

Rise Baking Co. will add 115,000 square feet of manufacturing space to its Pleasant View, Utah, facility this year as part of a network consolidation that includes closing its Kent, Washington, plant. The expansion is expected to create 170 new jobs and is slated for completion in 2026. The Pleasant...

If you were up early this morning, for work, like me, maybe you had the same reaction I did, looking out the window, the sun not quite risen yet, and seeing a light dusting of snow. Pretty surprising, and honestly pretty beautiful. Seattle hasn’t seen snow like that in a while.

A busy road in Gig Harbor will be closed for the next two years while the city makes some changes.

One of the three suspects arrested in connection with last week's multi-county police chase, which ended in a flipped vehicle in Centralia, pleaded not guilty Thursday in Cowlitz County Superior ...