Tacoma WA

TACOMA, Wash. — The city of Tacoma swore in Patti Jackson as its first permanent female police chief as she outlined her goals for the department, from tackling violent crime to boosting officer numbers. The city council approved her appointment in early February. In front of a packed room...

TACOMA, Wash. — It was supposed to be a short evening cruise — an hour, maybe two. Seven young people, most of them college students, slipped away from a Tacoma marina sometime after nine o'clock on the night of April 14, 1971, aboard a 22-foot Catalina sailboat. A light breeze was blowing. The water was calm. They...

TACOMA, Wash. — A woman is recovering from injuries after being shot while asleep in a South Tacoma home. Surveillance footage shows three people shooting at a house in the 8800 block of South D Street around 4 a.m. Tuesday, and the homeowner estimates about 60 shots were fired.

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — The three people killed trying to intervene as a 32-year-old allegedly stabbed his mother to death outside a Key Peninsula home Feb. 24 have been identified. Investigators say four people were stabbed outside a home on the Key Peninsula the morning of Feb. 24 before...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — A woman whose remains were found in a sealed yard waste bin in 2019 has been identified, and Pierce County Sheriff's Office (PCSO) detectives are seeking tips about her murder. Her body was found Aug. 28 on a vacant property on 9th St E near...

The Issaquah Police Department in Issaquah, Wash., has officially filed charges against four unnamed individuals who allegedly assaulted a woman at an anti-United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest earlier this month. Police arrived at the anti-ICE walkout at Issaquah High School on Friday, Feb....

SEATTLE — The sentencing hearing for a man convicted of murder had to be stopped in King County Superior Court Friday afternoon after the defendant became too emotional to proceed. Gabriel Vargas-Garcia, 28, beat a 63-year-old man who was in a wheelchair to death at the Bellevue Transit Center...

Deputies with the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office stopped a suspected shoplifter red handed. It happened Thursday afternoon, as the man was leaving a Target store in Silverdale, with a full cart of merchandise. The Man Is Accused of Stealing From the Store Several Times in the Past. It's believed the...

Bald eagles and their habitats are federally protected under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act

A 32-year-old man believed to have killed four people, including his mother, during a stabbing spree in Purdy on Tuesday morning before being shot and killed by responding sheriff’s deputies, was identified by a family member as Alexandr Shablykin.