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Comcast and Pierce County finalized an agreement in January to bring high speed internet to at least 526 homes and businesses on the north end of the Key Peninsula. The approximately $5 million …
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Staff Report
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2/1/23
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The Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office charged Dean Ryan Jones of Gig Harbor, 42, with vehicular homicide in December for his role in a collision that killed a Key Peninsula woman last …
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Staff Report
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2/1/23
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The Key Peninsula Lions Club will hold its 36th annual Key Peninsula Citizen of the Year Award banquet at the KP Civic Center March 25 beginning at 6 p.m. The long-standing ceremony had been …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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2/1/23
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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2/1/23
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2/1/23
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Sara Thompson, KP News
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2/1/23
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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and the need to do something special for the person that adds light into your life can be overwhelming. You love them, and every year you feel like you must …
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Ann-Marie Ugles
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2/1/23
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In 1986, an 18-year-old white woman named Ronda Morrison was murdered during an apparent sexual assault at the dry cleaners where she worked in Monroeville, Alabama. The community was stunned but …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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2/1/23
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Visitors pass through the Key Peninsula and notice only our impressive trees. Those who know the terrain well know how much can be concealed here.
Camouflaged critters exploit psychology as …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/1/23
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Key Peninsula News received approval of its application for 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service in January. The tax designation enables the 50-year-old publication …
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Staff Report
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2/1/23
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A shoreline summer camp, the former site of an iconic lighthouse, a working sheep farm and over 1,000 feet of mainstem Minter Creek are among seven properties that two local land trusts worked to …
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Chris Rurik, KP News
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2/1/23
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2/1/23
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We published more stories and photos than ever, delivered online to 78,000 viewers and in print with 126,000 newspapers. In 2022, the newspaper won another 14 awards in the statewide Better …
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1/31/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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1/30/23
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Virginia Thompson of Lakebay died January 3. She was 99 years old.
Daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, great-grandmother, friend. Writer, painter, teacher. Virginia was all of these …
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1/29/23
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Susan Henry of Vaughn died October 20. She was 73 years old.
Sue was born in 1949 on Vashon Island to George and Mary Alice Schoeppel and was later raised by her stepmother, Ruby Schoeppel. She …
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1/29/23
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Graphic notes on local life
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José Alaniz
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12/28/22
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The Key Peninsula board of fire commissioners voted 4-0 to approve its 2023 budget for Fire District 16 at its November 22 meeting. The fifth commissioner had an excused …
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Ted Olinger, KP News
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12/28/22
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Dec. 14, 2012 dawned like any other mid-winter day. School was winding down before the holidays, Christmas was on the horizon, and families were anticipating the start of the coming new year. But it …
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Meredith Browand
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12/28/22
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We have to talk about it. Asking someone if they are having suicidal thoughts will not give them the idea of ending their life. Instead, it creates an environment where they will feel safe asking for …
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Anne Nesbit
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12/28/22
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