When you live long enough in Pierce County, you learn a few things. The Narrows Bridge looks best at dusk. The Tacoma Dome looks like Mount Rainier if you squint a little. It is uniquely charming to ...

Businesses near the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge have already been impacted by the bridge’s closure. Most businesses directly around the bridge involve construction, trucking, or other industrial uses ...

A lawsuit filed by Trident Seafoods is raising significant questions about how a major ship fire was handled at the Port of Tacoma and whether key tactical decisions contributed to the loss of a ...

TACOMA 4/23/2024 – The City of Tacoma has issued alerts for several street closures around the city that drivers should be aware of. North 16 th Street Between North Proctor and North Adams Streets ...

In a 2022 letter to the U.S. Congress Committee on Appropriations, Congresswoman Kim Schrier (WA-08) requested $2 million for a local Pierce County Food Bank, writing, "This program will invest in ...

As 2026 embarks, we asked a range of local people to share their predictions for the year ahead. The opinions you’re about to hear come from a wide range of business owners, artists, advocates, ...

Pierce County Community Land Trust founder Jessie Baines received a very happy surprise recently. He applied for a $5,000 grant from the WaFd Bank Foundation and was told the amount was being awarded ...

Despite her success as a corporate executive for a Fortune 50 company, Alicia Barrett sensed something was missing in her life. Although the Gig Harbor–born and Tacoma-raised native was accomplished ...

For nearly 30 years, downtown Eatonville has been the place to be for car enthusiasts during the annual Rod Knockers Car Show. Now in its 29 th year, the event returns June 21, bringing together ...

This person was found near Orchard Street and South 34 th Street in Tacoma and may have been unhoused. Hair is mixed dark and gray, beard mostly gray-white. He has no tattoos, and eye color is unknown ...

Conner Wiley stands next to a large pile of tires that he and a friend spent a day dragging out of a gulch in Tacoma as part of one of his many volunteer trash cleanup projects around the city. Wiley ...

The city of Tacoma has expanded the Middle Housing Streamlined Permitting Program to make building housing easier. Specifically, a pilot program will launch next month, in early 2026, that will ...