What NYC must learn from Seattle’s homeless struggle
Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, Washington state’s King...
View ArticleMan allegedly assaulted lesbian couple at Seahawks game
SEATTLE — A 34-year-old Tacoma man has been accused of harassing and assaulting a same-sex couple for their sexual orientation at a Seahawks football game. SeattlePI.com reports Jay Dee Harp III was...
View ArticleStarbucks installing safe needle disposal boxes after petition
Several Starbucks locations in the Seattle area will be installing safe needle deposit boxes in store bathrooms after thousands of workers signed a petition calling on the coffee megachain to “protect...
View ArticleSeattle TV station staffer fired for doctoring Trump speech
A staffer at a local Fox station was axed for allegedly doctoring footage of President Trump’s Oval Office address — causing the commander-in-chief’s tongue to droop out of his mouth and making his...
View ArticleHunt is on for man accused of attacking lesbians at Seahawks game
An arrest warrant has been issued for a man who harassed and assaulted a lesbian couple and cold-cocked another man at a Seattle Seahawks football game last month — a disturbing assault that was caught...
View ArticleSeattle doesn’t have the most coffee shops per capita
Now that’s a lot of coffee. One bold new study claims that Seattle can no longer claim being America’s most caffeinated city. Instead, the study suggests that Berkeley, Calif., Vancouver, Wash., and...
View ArticleMicrosoft pledges $500M to tackle Seattle housing crisis
SEATTLE — Microsoft pledged $500 million to address homelessness and develop affordable housing in response to the Seattle region’s widening affordability gap. Most of the money will be aimed at...
View ArticleStudent thought to have slipped on campus actually suffered embolism
SEATTLE — A 19-year-old University of Washington student who died after reportedly slipping on a sidewalk and hitting her head had actually suffered a blood clot in her lungs. The King County Medical...
View ArticleWoman nearly runs over pedestrians for hitting her car with snowball
A woman in Seattle, Washington, was arrested after nearly hitting a group of pedestrians engaged in a snowball fight. According to witnesses, the woman drove toward the pedestrians after a snowball...
View ArticleBus driver shot on the job manages to drive passengers to safety
A bus driver in Seattle was shot and severely injured while on the job Wednesday — but still managed to speed away and get his passengers to safety. The brave King County Metro bus driver was blasted...
View ArticleLove-struck student tries to track down ‘lovely’ man she met on flight
A woman is desperately trying to track down the "lovely gentleman" she sat next to on her flight home to Seattle from Frankfurt, fearing she "may have missed her chance" at love.
View ArticleDirty dental tools may have exposed over 1K kids to viruses
Roughly 1,250 children in Washington state may have been exposed to viruses including hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV as a result of dental tools that were improperly sterilized, according to new...
View ArticleGroups sue to restrict salmon fishing, help Northwest orcas
SEATTLE — Federal officials say they may restrict salmon fishing off the West Coast to help the Pacific Northwest’s critically endangered killer whales, but two environmental groups are suing anyway to...
View ArticleFederal officials support native tribe’s push for only whale hunt in US
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced its proposal to allow the Makah tribe to hunt one to three Eastern North Pacific gray whales annually over a 10-year period off the...
View Article4 killed after construction crane collapsed into the street
Four people were killed when a construction crane collapsed on them Saturday in Seattle. Two of them were operators of the crane — which was being dismantled at the time — the others were in cars the...
View ArticleCollege nursing student among 4 killed in Seattle crane accident
Seattle Pacific University officials say one of its students was among the four people killed when a construction crane fell from a building and crashed onto one of Seattle’s busiest streets.
View ArticleDeadly Seattle crane collapse caught on video
Horrifying video has emerged of the moment a crane collapsed at a Seattle construction site, killing four people, including a college student who was in a car that was crushed in the accident. The...
View ArticleHow Seattle’s elite brushes off violent homeless crime
A year ago, in Seattle, a man living in a city-funded homeless encampment raped a woman in the bathroom of a Volkswagen dealership in the city’s Ballard neighborhood, according to the victim and law...
View ArticleCanadian traveler visited Seattle while infected with measles
Health officials in Seattle are warning about a Canadian traveler who passed through popular tourist spots in late April while infected with measles. The patient, described to be a male in his 40s, had...
View ArticleSeattle Times suspends reporter for sexual misconduct with female writer
The Seattle Times on Sunday suspended real estate reporter Mike Rosenberg after another journalist, Talia Jane, tweeted screenshots of direct messages he sent that she alleged were sexually explicit...
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