Tacoma WA

Tacoma Urban League CEO Desireé Wilkins Finch urged the state to send a chunk of Community Reinvestment Project money to a private consulting outfit she founded, and the Department of Commerce was not having it. The proposed award triggered a deeper look at multiple CRP grants in Pierce County, and Finch has been on...

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A Bellevue man has been charged with first-degree murder and felony hit-and-run after prosecutors say he circled a YMCA parking lot, struck and killed an 88-year-old woman, then fled south and was later linked to two pedestrian hit-and-run cases in Tacoma, according to King County charging documents.

TACOMA, Wash. — Nearly five decades after human remains were discovered in the woods near Mount Rainier, investigators say modern DNA technology has finally identified the victim — bringing long-awaited answers to a son who spent most of his life searching for the truth. Pierce County detectives say...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Tacoma Police Department (TPD) is investigating a fatal crash in the 2000 block of Yakima Avenue on Thursday afternoon that killed two drivers and a dog. The crash happened shortly after 4 p.m. near St. Joseph Medical Center. Police said a southbound vehicle and a northbound vehicle collided after...

A 19-year-old Kent man arrested for investigation of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old boy in Covington has been released from jail. King County Sheriff’s Office detectives arrested the man for investigation of second-degree murder in the stabbing of Saef Shamil Kamil during a fight on March 1 near the Timberlane...

SEATTLE — A century-old redwood in Seattle’s Madison Park neighborhood was cut down Friday, despite weeks of protests from neighbors who said bald eagles had been using the towering tree as a roost. The roughly 100-foot-tall redwood stood on private property along McGilvra Boulevard East, part of a...

USS Nimitz, a 50+ year-old aircraft carrier for the Navy, will be leaving Washington waters for the last time as the Navy plans to retire the vessel.

Seattle parents are facing some serious sticker shock on date night, now shelling out roughly $27.70 per hour for one child and about $30.79 for two. That puts Seattle second only to San Francisco for babysitting prices and turns a typical three-hour evening out for two kids into about a $92 line item. The climb...

Two Golden Steer restaurant owners accused of buying and selling stolen alcohol reached an agreement with city of Kent prosecutors for no jail time but they cannot operate a business in town over the next two years, must pay fines and perform community service. Mohammed F. Alsadi, 34, and Widad...

After a couple of weeks of moderate moves, Mayor Katie Wilson has made a serious blunder. Her precipitous firing of Dawn Roth Lindell as General Manager and CEO of Seattle City Light was an error of judgment guaranteed to haunt her and potentially do disservice to the utility’s half million customers and 1,800...