Tacoma WA

A 68-year-old Bellevue man has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder, accused of “weaponizing” his Toyota Camry by intentionally plowing into a pedestrian and running her over last week in the parking lot of the Bellevue Family YMCA, according to King County prosecutors. After killing 88-year-old Shinko...

Arnav Thota, Tonghe Zhang and Gavin Liu Community, Top Story. A Skyline High School student was fatally stabbed on Sunday, March 1, in the city of Covington, located about 25 miles south of Sammamish. Local media outlets, including the Seattle Times, reported on the incident shortly after it happened. The...

Staff placed Dessie Evans Elementary School in Puyallup under modified lockdown Thursday due to an incident on the playground. Sarah Gillispie, spokesperson for the Puyallup School District, told The News Tribune the school was under lockdown for about 18 minutes because of “a student on the playground exhibiting...

A man found responsible for two fatal shootings in Tacoma in 2021 and 2022 pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. Keon Eugene Simms was arrested after 56-year-old Victor Scott was fatally shot during a road-rage shooting in January 2022 in South Tacoma. Simms was driving a rental...

A bomb squad was called to the parking lot of the Mullenix Market in Port Orchard Thursday night.

Pierce County community remembered the four women killed in a deadly stabbing spree with a vigil in Gig Harbor Wednesday night.

Wilson says she wants to lean heavily on tiny home villages, introducing legislation to ease the permitting for those sites, reduce restrictions around their size, and encourage Seattleites to volunteer at one of the places that make the homes.

A Harborview Medical Center doctor raised concerns about the number of e-scooter injuries as of late, noting that in 2024 alone, the hospital treated 163 patients with serious e-scooter injuries. Gee Scott, co-host of “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio, voiced his own concerns about the irresponsible use...

SEATTLE — A Mercer Island man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of wire fraud for secretly transferring $35 million from his employer into a failed cryptocurrency venture. Nevin Shetty, former chief financial officer of tech company Fabric, was convicted...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — A 19-year-old driver was arrested after a wrong-way pursuit ended with a crash into a Washington State Patrol car on southbound Interstate 5 near state Route 512 early Wednesday, the Washington State Patrol (WSP) said. The crash happened around 1:30 a.m. on March 4, according...