A missing 50-year-old motorcyclist who was found dead Sunday has been identified as Gary L. Wilson.

Wilson’s family reported the Lakebay man missing last weekend after he did not return home. He was last seen about 10 p.m. Saturday.

His body and 1400cc Suzuki street bike were found at 4:45 p.m. Sunday in the 5200 block of Key Peninsula Highway South.It appears Wilson left the roadway and went down an embankment before crashing.

The posted speed limit in that area is 15 mph and investigation revealed that Wilson may have been going around the corner at five times that speed, …

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A 62-year-old Olalla man was killed Tuesday night after crashing his pickup truck into a tree on his property while removing tree stumps from the ground, according to the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office.

Douglas Alan Young was using his 2001 Chevrolet pickup to remove stumps on the back of his property in the 9300 block of Orchard Avenue Southeast. The accident occurred about 7:15 p.m.

Sheriff’s officials said the rope connected to the truck’s trailer hitch likely split under strain, causing the truck to collide with a fire tree. Young was not wearing a seat belt and went through the …

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UPDATED:  No one was injured in the house in the 7700 block of Goodman Drive Northwest that was hit by a tree, according to Ed Troyer, a spokesman with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office.

The school bus that was blocked by down wires near Vaughn was able to turn around and continue on its way, Troyer added.

POSTED EARLIER: High winds this morning have knocked out power to some homes on Key Peninsula and dropped a tree onto power lines that are blocking a school bus near Vaughn.

The school bus is stopped on Doc Thomas Road as a Peninsula …

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It was a cold night for about 5,600 Peninsula Light Company Power customers last night due to power outages in the Vaughn/Lakebay area, though power is now restored.

A separate outage has occurred about 7:30 a.m. in the Carney Lake area near Vaughn and Peninsula Light crews are on their way to find out the problem, according to company spokeswoman Julie Richards.

Richards said there are only about 50 people in the Carney Lake area without power at this time.

The larger outage was caused by a tree limb that fell on a transmission line about 11:45 p.m. Power was out for …

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UPDATE: Powerful winds have caused a power outage that is affecting 9,200 Tacoma Power customers.

The affected areas include Northeast Tacoma, north Tacoma near Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, south Tacoma near Foss High School and in Puyallup near Rogers High School.

Although Peninsula Light Company crews have restored power to several neighborhoods, there are still 3,500 homes without electricity.

The impacted areas include  Creviston East, Hunt & Lombard, Woodhill and Lakebay.

INITIAL POST:

About 7,000 people on the Key Peninsula have lost power in the last hour, according to a Peninsula Light spokesman.

Crews are working in the Artondale, …

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Flames destroyed a home in south of Artondale on Thursday night when a candle in the house tipped over during a widespread power outage on the Key Peninsula.

Automatic fire alarms at the residence notified 911 of the fire and the homeowner also called 911. Crews were called to the house in the 5100 block of Cromwell Drive Southwest about 6:15 p.m. Thursday, said Nanette Tatom, a spokeswoman for Pierce County Fire District No. 5. Heavy traffic also delayed the department’s response, she said.

Tatom said crews used  water tenders because there were no fire hydrants nearby.  Two water …

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A widespread power outage has plunged 65,000 people on the Key Peninsula into darkness.

About 4:35 p.m., a logging truck took out two transmission lines at Tacoma Power’s Cushman Generation Project.

Spokeswoman Sonja Hall said power should be restored by 8 p.m.

The affected transmission lines may belong to Tacoma Power but they serve customers of Peninsula Light Co.

All eight of Pen Light’s substations are black. The outage is impacting 31,000 meters and 65,000 customers, said Peninsula Light spokesman Jonathan White.

Traffic is severely backed up across Gig Harbor since the traffic signals are not working. Several collisions have …

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There’s been lots of “illicit activity” in pockets of the Lakebay neighborhood that was the site of a major shootout last night, but Key Peninsula Citizens Against Crime President Mike Baum says nothing like that’s ever happened in the area.

Most of the criminal activity he knows of in the area has involved burglaries and vandalism, he said, though there are often problems with drug activity on the peninsula.

The shootout involved a robbery at a house where the occupants were suspected of selly oxycontin, a powerful narcotic much prized on the drug-dealing market.

Initial reports described it as …

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