Tacoma WA

Students at Ferrucci Junior High in Puyallup will begin relocating Monday after a fire forced the school to close for the rest of the academic year. The district says students will move to temporary in-person and remote learning sites through June 18.

Friends and family are remembering a 37-year-old father killed in a Puyallup shooting. A suspect has turned himself in as loved ones push back on what they call misinformation about the case.

The first time Dr. Anita Chopra had a long COVID patient, she cried. It was two years after the pandemic, she said, when the once-healthy patient described symptoms of weakness, chronic fatigue and frequently forgetting daily activities. "I still see him. He's in his late 40s, but the amount of...

SEATTLE — A 26-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting reported early Sunday near Occidental Avenue South and South Jackson Street. Officers were dispatched at about 1:30 a.m. to reports of a shooting in the area. Police arrived and found the woman alert and conscious, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to her torso.

A 19-year-old man was killed Saturday afternoon after he crashed his motorcycle in south Pierce County, according to the Washington State Patrol. A second motorcyclist, 21, also was involved in the crash but not was not injured, troopers say. Both riders were wearing helmets, a State Patrol memo shows. About 2 p.m., Tanner J. Trolinder, 19, of Joint Base Lewis-McChord was...

Seattle renters looking for a three-bedroom house with a yard are finding out the hard way that the classic family rental is quietly disappearing. What used to be a go-to option for growing households has turned into a hunt through a shrinking, more expensive slice of the market, shaped by higher prices, pandemic churn and a pivot toward smaller units.

An Arlington man died after crashing his motorcycle on Interstate 90 near Issaquah. Investigators say he lost control and struck a recessed storm drain.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated with the correct date. A 28-year-old motorcyclist was killed late Friday night, April 17, after a crash involving another vehicle in Des Moines, […] The post Fatal motorcycle crash in Des Moines Friday night leaves one dead, DUI arrest made appeared first on The Waterland Blog .

Developer Ben Maritz is ready to get moving on his firm’s next local project. Maritz is founder and managing partner of Great Expectations of Seattle, the same developers behind Tacoma’s Cornus House Apartments and more recently the firm’s Rialto project , comprising three downtown buildings, including the Hosmer House, 309 S. Ninth St., considered the oldest residence in the city. Maritz and Great Expectations are...

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to arm-wrestle a burger and lose, Wally’s Drive-In in Buckley has the answer. This place serves burgers so monumentally large that eating one feels less like lunch and more like entering into a binding contract with your appetite. The...