Tacoma WA

OLYMPIA – People across Washington now have easier access to help for opioid use disorder. The Washington State Department of Health has partnered with the University of Washington to expand the Washington Telebuprenorphine (Telebupe) Hotline statewide. Residents can access same-day medical treatment via phone or...

TACOMA, Wash. — The city of Tacoma is working to add more traffic cameras to its dangerous roads to catch speeders as part of the city’s Vision Zero goal of having no traffic deaths or serious injuries by the year 2035. Matt Perrine drives East Bay Street daily...

Public transportation is a very useful tool for everyone, and as individuals in society, we are expected to be respectful of public spaces. However, there are many people who only seek to take advantage of any situation. Such is the case with Karen in Seattle, who was confronted by two security guards for not paying...

SEATTLE — Before descending on a crowd of counterprotesters at a religious rally last year at Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park, a Seattle police officer said “we’re here to f--- people up,” according to new police body camera video obtained by KING 5. “We’re going in...

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport wants to get this message heard… it no longer wants passengers calling it ‘Sea-Tac,’ the much-loved and decades-old moniker that locals and visitors commonly refer to the airport, despite a $300,000 rebrand in early 2020 that dropped the nickname. While the airport is still...

Four school districts in the state of Washington are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education.

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. - A massage therapist is facing two counts of third-degree rape in Pierce County, prosecutors say. Justin Francis, 25, appeared in court Wednesday after being accused of sexually assaulting two women while working at a spa in Gig Harbor. Prosecutors said one alleged assault occurred in December...

It's impossible to miss Urbana. It’s a gigantic apartment complex (nearly 300 units), and, because of its prime location, Northwest Market Street and 15th Avenue Northwest, it introduces the world to Ballard. But, my god, the building has no aesthetic appeal to speak of; nothing in all of it...

It took firefighters about 20 minutes to extinguish a Kent house fire Tuesday morning, Jan. 13 in the 4400 block of South 257th Street. No one was home at the time of the fire, according to a Jan. 13 email from Puget Sound Fire spokesperson Pat Pawlak. Firefighters were dispatched just before 9 a.m. and found a large...

The pool at Tacoma’s Eastside Community Center is closed until further notice, according to Parks Tacoma. Parks officials uncovered additional damage to the pool, which opened about eight years ago , during a routine maintenance check in December, according to spokesperson Stacia Glenn. The maintenance check revealed...