Tacoma WA

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Seattle, Washington – A more active and unsettled weather pattern is expected to take hold across Washington from Friday through early the following week, bringing increased chances for rain and mountain...

Color Me Mine, a national franchise that offers guided ceramic-painting experiences, is joining Renton’s retail shopping center The Landing. This marks the chain's first Washington location. The Renton studio is owned by husband-and-wife team Anna and Steve Yantorni and is expected to open later this month, according...

Get ready, Seattle! A new spot for chicken lovers is about to open its doors in the University District, and it’s all about those crispy strips.

Brandi Carlile Returning to The Gorge Amphitheatre. Northwest singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile is embarking on The Human Tour — which is promoting her latest album, "Returning to Myself" — starting on Feb. 10, and as part of it she's doing a May 29-30 stint at The Gorge Amphitheatre she's calling "Echoes Through the...

DeMolay Sandspit on Fox Island reopened last month, but more work is planned for the waterfront park starting this summer. The next stage is building a new Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant winding walkway from the parking lot to the waterfront that eliminates the steep walk that is there now. A restroom and...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Two lanes of southbound Interstate 5 in Federal Way have reopened following a crash as evening commuters were hitting the road on Thursday night. Five vehicles, including a King County Metro bus, were involved in a crash, according to Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson.

The Gig Harbor-based Russell Family Foundation has announced a new cohort of the Jane’s Fellowship Program, the 13th class since the program began in 2004. Named for the family matriarch, the fellowship is a year-long program that brings together leaders who are working to address a “wide range of community...

Kent Police arrested a 37-year-old Centralia man for investigation of second-degree assault and possession of a dangerous weapon after he reportedly stabbed an 18-year-old Kent man in the arm at the Kent Library. Officers responded at about 1:41 p.m. Jan. 16 to a downtown urgent care facility in response to...

I am haunted by places and one-time features in the landscape that have faded, crumbled, disappeared, or given way to time or progress. Barns, buildings, houses, rivers, old roads, lanes — doesn’t matter. I love to think about what remains of them all, spell-struck by voices of another age, gone faint through lack of...

The Grays Harbor County Coroner’s Office responded Wednesday afternoon, January 22, 2026, to a report of a suspected drowning at Half Moon Bay in Westport. According to officials, 52-year-old Keith C. Jones of Lakebay, Washington was fishing at Half Moon Bay when he was swept into the water by incoming tide and wave...