At least a dozen deputies have left Pierce County for Tacoma police this year. According to the sheriff's guild, the agency ...

The victim had told her romantic partner, then a Gig Harbor nurse practitioner, that she believed she might be pregnant.

Gig Harbor police are investigating a string of purse snatchings that occurred over the past three days. Each incident took place in a parking lot of a different store, targeting elderly women. The ...

GIG HARBOR, Wash. — A Gig Harbor couple opened their door Saturday morning to find a bleeding woman in desperate need of help. They immediately jumped into action. The couple was still in bed when a ...

Three women in their 70s and older had their purses snatched in the same week in Gig Harbor this month. The incidents happened on Dec. 9 at 8:30 p.m., Dec. 11 at 4:18 p.m. and Dec. 12 at 2:45 p.m., ...

Police in Gig Harbor are warning elderly women to be on the lookout for purse snatchers after three women were attacked in grocery store parking lots this week. The attacks started Monday when a ...

A 32-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree manslaughter after her 5-year-old son died from acute fentanyl toxicity on March 13, 2025 near Puyallup. A Gig Harbor man is accused of ...

Police found the body of a 21-year-old Gig Harbor woman who went missing last month. Whitney Lee Schaefer was last seen on Dec. 22 when she left work and told her supervisor that she had to catch a ...

A single-car crash near Port Orchard left a Gig Harbor woman dead Thursday afternoon. A 61-year-old man driving a 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer on westbound state Route 16 near Mattress Ranch lost ...

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A Gig Harbor man is accused of financially exploiting a woman diagnosed with dementia throughout their three-year relationship. Prosecutors charged Kirk D Hein, 62, on Nov. 18 with five counts of ...