Thursday marks the 84th anniversary of when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge infamously collapsed due to strong winds in 1940.

The construction workers called it “Galloping Gertie.” Construction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge started in 1938, and it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. It was the world’s third-longest suspension ...

Four burglars rammed a stolen car into the store at 5114 Point Fosdick Dr. NW, which sells cigarettes, liquor and other ...

Tacoma painter Beulah Loomis Hyde wasn’t content to paint sunsets, flowers and the pretty pictures her contemporaries did in ...

Traffic was stop-and-go for over 8 miles up to and across the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Thursday evening after a collision near ...

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Over a period of 55 years the Willits Brothers built more than 900, mostly in a workshop on Tacoma's Day Island. Each one is a masterpiece, Historian Michael Sean Sullivan says paddling a Willits ...

One painting shows Galloping Gertie, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which was brought down by a windstorm in 1940. Other paintings show traffic, markets and businesses from a long-ago city.