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From Pokemon cards to fossils to meteorites, you won’t find a more eclectic set of items for sale than at Goldmine Coins & Relics.

Gig Harbor Now, in partnership with the Bremerton-based daily newspaper Kitsap Sun, is one of nine news organizations selected to receive a journalist as part of the new Murrow Fellowship program through Washington State University. Murrow Fellowship evaluators selected the Gig Harbor Now-Kitsap Sun partnership and eight other news organizations from among 40 applications from

In Purdy, sometime this spring, ground will be broken for Laguna’s. And soon after, patrons will break bread, shuck oysters and crack crab at an oyster house-style restaurant owned and operated as an extension of the Minterbrook Oyster Company. Minterbrook plans to build the Peninsula-area’s newest restaurant near the Purdy Bridge on the former site

The Gig Harbor real estate market continued to pick up momentum in January despite a significant shortage of available homes to buy.

Pat Lantz, the founding president of Gig Harbor Now’s Board of Directors, stepped down from the board at the end of 2023. Lantz — whose resumé includes working as an attorney, six terms in the state Legislature and a 10-year stint on the Washington Parks and Recreation Commission — is going to give retirement a

Kroger, owner of Fred Meyer and other grocery chains, announced this week that its proposed merger with Albertsons will take longer than it previously thought.  Meanwhile, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that his office is suing to stop the merger. The Democratic attorney general, who is running for governor this fall, argued that the

After bottoming out in September 2023 at $827,792, the median price for a single-family home between the Purdy and Narrows bridges rose for the third consecutive month to $850,000 in December, an increase of 2.7%. Prices are now just 1.9% below their peak of $866,835 in October 2022. Spurring the increase in prices is a

Some knew him as “Mr. Kelly,” though his surname was Mackle.  Others knew him as Jim the Chicken Coop Guy. Or Jim the Plumber.  Many people in Gig Harbor knew Jim Mackle, under one handle or another. The former owner of Kelly’s toy store and cafe in downtown Gig Harbor — a plumber by trade