Sean Robinson

A counselor at Western State Hospital took money from 13 mental patients. The state knowingly hired him despite his lengthy criminal record.

Five months ago, when Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson was asked whether he was thinking of running for governor in 2020, he scoffed.

The brutal 2012 slaying of Robert Meline at the hands of his son Jonathan was the state of Washington’s fault, a jury decided Thursday.

The nightmare still comes when Kim Meline sleeps. Her son, Jonathan, stalks her with a hatchet: the weapon he used to kill his father Rob in October 2012, nine months after his release from Western State Hospital.

Two Tacoma police officers face a criminal investigation into possible child abuse following reports that they told a 54-year-old woman to beat her 9-year-old grandson with a belt, and watched while she did it.

Once, the 10 acres of greenery along state Route 302 were well-tended, home to a family matriarch whose memories stretched to the early days of life on the Key Peninsula.

When Tacoma police Officer Reginald “Jake” Gutierrez stepped into the dark house on Nov. 30, he had no reason to think he was going to die.

Lakewood police officer Arron Grant, who died by suicide April 25, was haunted by his testimony in a lawsuit tied to his prior employment with the city of Seattle and believed he lied under pressure to aid the city’s case, according to his boss and former co-workers.

Tacoma Fire Department leaders have revised their hiring practices in the wake of a News Tribune story about a firefighter who died of a drug overdose in July 2016 after showing up for work impaired.

Ramsey Mueller dreamed of saving others, but he couldn’t save himself.

A woman hit and killed by a train Friday near Tacoma’s Old Town has been identified as a 28-year-old Tacoma resident.

When the grim case began in February 2015, three people were charged with first-degree murder.

The Department of Justice is getting out of the private-prison business, but for the moment that won’t affect the largest privately operated detention facility in the state: the Northwest Detention Center on the Tacoma Tideflats.

Northwest philanthropists Mike and Sue Raney add $1 million more for similar work on Enchanted Valley Trail at Olympic National Park

Complaints come from county sheriff’s guild and a local defense attorney, accuse prosecutor of violating legal rules governing lawyers

The 40-acre site between River Road and Pioneer Way draws curious glances from passing commuters

Linda Robinson was stabbed to death while babysitting a niece and nephew

Pilot program targets criminal defendants with mental illness

Report: Lindquist said Lakewood police officer killings worth “$100,000 in free publicity”

Speed limits on state Route 16, held down by active construction projects, are about to go back up.