Tacoma News

The following convicted sex offender has recently registered to live in Tacoma. He is categorized as a Level 3 sex offender those considered most likely to commit similar crimes.

A 21-year-old man charged in a deadly 2008 drive-by shooting on a Tacoma street pleaded guilty this week.

Nearly a year after a 6-year-old boy watching in the stands was killed by flying debris, the monster truck rally where it happened is coming back to Tacoma.

LE TOUR. The Bike Tea Party on Nov. 29 will feature a 45-minute all-ages ride ending at Mad Hat Tea Company, then later an adult's only pub crawl.

Consider the emergency. Daughter urgently needs book for report due tomorrow. You work in Tacoma, live in Graham and can't get to your Pierce County Library branch before it closes.

I wanted to make you aware of an addition to our atrium this holiday season as it may play well into general museum tours - and it's just plain fun! Please read below to learn more about the Gingerbread Village at Tacoma Art Museum.

Tacoma students can now get help on their homework seven days a week, and it won't cause their parents to fuzzily recall old algebra formulas from back in their school days or shell out extra dough for a private tutor.

Greg Sparks, president of Safeway's Seattle Division, oversees operations in 212 Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho stores.

OH, CHRISTMAS TREE. It's Christmastime in the city, and time for the young and young at heart to gather round for Tacoma's holiday tree lighting in the heart of downtown.

As part of ongoing surveillance, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the 'AA' rating on the City of Tacoma, Washington's outstanding sewer revenue and refunding bonds, series 2001A, 2002 and 2006.

The Tacoma School Board voted unanimously Monday to ask voters to approve a $140 million capital levy and an $82 million operations levy in February.

A murder trial has begun for a man accused of killing a Parkland husband and father in Old Town last year, and investigators have issued a warrant for a witness who failed to appear.

We ran into Dan at today's Auditor swearing-in where he informed us he will be joining the Tacoma Public School system as the Public Information Officer.

Two-term Tacoma City Councilwoman Connie Ladenburg will not seek appointment to either of two soon-to-be vacated council seats, telling colleagues in an e-mail late Sunday that she wants out of the running.

The Tacoma Rescue Mission is asking for nearly 2,000 frozen turkeys that are needed for Thanksgiving dinners.

Over the last 18 months, architect David Boe has written 49 Imagine Tacoma columns for Exit133.

All hell broke loose in the Rialto Theater Sunday afternoon, in the best possible way, as the Tacoma Symphony tackled two of Beethoven's greatest works with the ferocity, mood-swings and triumph worthy of the infamously moody composer.

Ryan Nettleton was serving his second tour in Iraq when he learned his police officer brother Trevor had been shot and killed Thursday in Las Vegas.

ART IS LOVE. Tacoma is for Lovers creator, founder and local artist Jennifer Adams will be hosting the fourth artist craft sale this Sunday, Nov.

Depending on the weather, an overnight eastbound Highway 16 closure at Nalley Valley is scheduled from 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov.