Tacoma WA

Muckleshoot Casino Resort in Auburn, WA, is the state’s premier gaming destination, making reliable entry security essential for its casino resort floor. Three years ago, Security Manager Alf Tuputala began searching for a more efficient, secure alternative to manual ID checks. A Google search led him to Veridocs – a...

Follow up story to Sweeping the Wind, also by Your friendly neighborhood homeless industrial complex worker. On the first day of August in downtown Tacoma, I saw a young woman smoking fentanyl in a crowded church parking lot a few feet away from a narcotics anonymous meeting. She was wearing stained clothes that hung...

Pierce County is distributing over $3 million to six organizations to support youth and young adults experiencing or at risk of homelessness, according to a release from the county.

Two men have been charged with felony theft after allegedly stealing over 10,000 gallons of fuel from an unmanned gas station in Frederickson, Pierce County.

The Thurston County Sheriff (TCSO) says a man in Lacey was arrested after allegedly assaulting someone he met on a mobile app.

A driver who was allegedly driving recklessly while intoxicated on the Key Peninsula is in custody after crashing into another vehicle and injuring at least one person, a toddler, per the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies received calls about a “black SUV that was driving recklessly kind of all over the Key...

The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office’s loss is the Tacoma Police Department’s gain. Eleven Pierce County deputies are making the lateral move to the Tacoma Police Department, the Pierce County Deputy Sheriffs’ Independent Guild confirmed. Deputies in Pierce County have been working without a contract since January...

A drug trafficker was arrested in Lewis County after traveling from California to Washington with the haul of narcotics.

New tolling rules will start later this fall along State Route 167 in Kent as part of the new toll equipment installed between Renton and Auburn. The SR 167 express toll lanes will have rules that are consistent with the Interstate 405 express toll lanes, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation...

Seattle has seen its fair share of crime busts, but none so juxtaposing as the recent arrest of teenagers with a trove of weapons – and an unlikely companion, a high school geometry book. Last Monday, officers responded to reports of armed individuals near a suspicious Chevrolet Malibu, a vehicle previously linked to...