Gig Harbor Now reporters chase down news that affects community residents, providing facts with context and perspective.
Students in Eric Wolgemuth’s astrophysics class spent hours this past semester in the parking lot of Gig Harbor High School training a powerful telescope on objects thousands of light years away. Using an array of sophisticated equipment and software, they produced stunning images of deep-space nebula. Their image of the North American Nebula, which is
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The new Gig Harbor resident spent a career being creative in the music and publishing industries. He’s not stopping now.
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Relics from the boat made famous by a Steinbeck book, discovered by a Wauna man, go on sale on Thursday in an internet auction.
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The Greater Gig Harbor Foundation’s Chowder Social, with dishes prepared by top local chefs, is Saturday at the Vintage Aero Museum.
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The 16-year-old suspect lives in Federal Way and is also suspected of other robberies in Bellevue and King County.
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For Raed Fahmy, MD, FACC, a cardiologist at St. Anthony Hospital, the fight against heart disease is personal. Witnessing his father die from a heart attack at 18 years old has fueled his lifelong mission to help others avoid a similar, devastating situation. “Where I grew up, there were very limited treatment options,” he recalls.
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Corrections officers die by suicide at higher rates than police, yet have largely been excluded from expansions in mental health treatment for first responders.
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Cross-Narrows phone service has been available since 1907. To call a car dealer, people in those times needed only to dial ‘1’.
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The Peninsula girls play for a district tournament berth on Saturday, Feb. 8, at the University of Puget Sound.
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Longtime Gig Harbor resident, window manufacturing titan and philanthropist James “Jim” Milgard died Friday, Jan. 31, at his home in Indian Wells, California. He was 84. Milgard’s father Maurice and older brother Gary launched Milgard Glass in a small building on South Tacoma Way in 1958. Jim joined the family business in 1961 at age
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