Tacoma WA

The future of local arts nonprofit Tacoma Arts Live is looking brighter after its board relinquished managerial rights to a receiver with experience aiding businesses in financial distress. The organization previously announced in January it would close this summer after 47 years, citing insurmountable debt and declining ticket sales. But on March 13, court records show the TAL board filed for voluntary receivership, a...

Is it a way to honor “250 years of American sacrifice?” Or is it “performative patriotism?”. Both phrases were used to describe the Puyallup City Council’s decision this week to spend nearly $150,000 on a 100-foot flagpole flying a 20-by-30-foot American flag — a project that divided the council and ignited a passionate debate over patriotism, priorities, and taxpayer money.

A witness stopped a terrifying kidnapping attempt in Parkland, leading to a repeat offender's arrest. Pierce County deputies arrested 29-year-old Randy Smith, who recently served prison time for attacking the same victim. Authorities say he previously attacked her with a hammer just last month.

• Commercial burglary: 12:52 p.m., officers responded to a commercial burglary at a radio tower near the 900 block of Central Avenue South. Officers learned that a suspect had entered the fenced area and removed a significant amount of radio equipment. The suspect vehicle was later returned, and officers seized the vehicle for a warrant and contacted the occupant.

AUBURN, Wash. - New bodycam video shows the moment a King County Sheriff’s sergeant jumped into action to save a family from a fire at a local mobile home park. At 6:20 a.m. Saturday, April 25, Sgt. Robert Nishimura was driving through Auburn when he spotted a plume of thick black smoke rising above the trees.

The Pacific Bonsai Museum's tentpole event, BonsaiFest!, is returning from May 9-10. The Federal Way event will include hundreds of works of bonsai art to peruse, bonsai-making demonstrations, guided tours, food trucks, shopping opportunities, and more. More details about the free event can be found here. Petpalooza. From 10 a.m.-5...

A Goodwill in Tacoma needed to be evacuated earlier this week after an employee found a hand grenade in one of the donation bins. Officers with the Tacoma Police Department were called to the Goodwill, located at 5401 6th Avenue in Tacoma, just after 1 p.m. Tuesday. The store had no record of who donated the grenade.

A Tacoma woman is pleading for the one thing no insurance policy can replace: the ashes of her 11-year-old brother, stolen from her car as she moved into a new apartment on Sixth Avenue. Abbirielle Priest was unloading belongings when thieves broke into her vehicle and took off with suitcases...

RENTON, Wash. — A jury is now tasked with deciding whether an off-duty security guard is guilty of murdering a teenager he mistakenly believed was armed with a real gun. Aaron Myers is charged in the 2024 death of 17-year-old Hazrat Ali Rohani outside a Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Renton. According to court testimony, Rohani and two other teens had...

From the essential yet unsung work of sewer maintenance to the impending global spotlight of the FIFA World Cup, the Kent City Council’s May 5 meeting spanned the full spectrum of civic life. The session balanced significant long-term policy shifts, such as a ten-year plan to overhaul public defense...