The Pierce County Council has formally condemned political violence, adopting a resolution Tuesday that calls for renewed commitment to public safetyand constr ...

The mother of PPD officer Pierce Cotton’s first child warned his pregnant girlfriend he had HIV. Until then she didn’t know, reports say.

While two people close to a 2-year-old girl were convicted of crimes for her 2022 killing, a debate began this week in a Pierce County courtroom over whether the child-welfare system also deserved ...

The unusual early heat wave is heightening concerns about public safety and marks a test of the state's efforts to combat heat-related deaths in a time of rising temperatures.

Deputies in Pierce County have recaptured a man who had been booked on a murder charge, and raw video is giving the public a front-row seat to the tense arrest. The footage, published March 15, 2026, ...

Harold Ashworth was tuning up a vehicle at the time the dog attacked in 2022, according to a lawsuit that was recently settled.

Headlines about shocking crimes can make it difficult to see the bigger picture, but data shows violent crimes are declining ...

Pierce County detectives say the remains belong to William Nelson Church Jr., a young father who vanished from Tacoma in the late 1970s.

The family called 911 the night before the attack and reported he wasn’t taking his medication and was likely headed to his ...

A Clark County review and related county audits say Pierce County moved so fast to staff its jail that it signed off on a series of hires that later turned into serious problems. The outside review ...

Facing a staffing crisis in the jail in 2023, Pierce County officials hired people for corrections jobs who had admitted to domestic violence, had disqualifying prior drug use or had a poor driving ...

SB 6181 allows the Pierce County Council to submit incorporation petitions directly. Unincorporated areas face hurdles to city-like services amid county budget constraints. If enacted, voters would ...