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SEATTLE – (By Dale King, Realty News Report) – Deciding whether to move into a new home or stay where you’ve already set down roots depends largely on whether the current home meets your household’s evolving physical, financial and lifestyle requirements. Move if you need a...

A high stakes legal fight is underway in Seattle over whether the man accused of killing Central District business owner and youth coach D'Vonne Pickett Jr. is mentally fit to stand trial. A competency proceeding opened Thursday, with defense attorneys arguing he is too mentally ill to help with his own case, while prosecutors counter that it is a strategic attempt to delay a...

There are ice cream shops—and then there is Salt & Straw, a company that somehow turned frozen dessert into something closer to a cultural ritual. Lines snake down sidewalks not because people need ice cream, but because they want this ice cream: inventive, nostalgic, occasionally strange, and always rooted in story.

Sea-Tac Airport is racing to tighten how every truck, van and fire rig shows up on controllers’ screens, a direct response to the March runway collision at New York’s LaGuardia Airport that killed two pilots and injured dozens. Port of Seattle officials say they are looking at adding transponders to more vehicles and installing new antennas in the ramp tower so that data...

Seattle has agreed to pay more than $9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a cyclist who suffered a traumatic brain injury after a crash in the Green Lake neighborhood, a case that has put the design of one of the city’s showcase bike lanes under a harsh spotlight. The rider, 26‑year‑old Aviv Litov, was injured in a June 2024 collision...

WALMART stores, among many, are bracing for a new law that will increase their costs. The city of Tukwila, Washington, is joining multiple other areas across the country in raising its minimum wage for employees. Minimum wage employees in Tukwila are paid $21.65, according to the city’s website. The...

Socialist Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson awkwardly exits TV interview after being asked about surveillance cameras amid rising gun violence in the city.

BELLEVUE, Wash. - A rollover crash on I-90 in Bellevue sent four people to the hospital on Friday. Westbound I-90 was blocked for hours after a crash near West Lake Sammamish Parkway just after 7 p.m. All lanes of the freeway were blocked initially, but were reopened into the night.

The Goldendale Aluminum Smelter has sat abandoned on the Columbia River’s banks since 2003. Now, developers want to build a massive new energy project there that could power a city the size of Seattle. Before they can build it, they must help clean up contaminants that have been sitting in the soil for decades.

City and tribal officials are seeking emergency permission to fix a crumbling levee near the coastal city of Stanwood, Washington, before disaster strikes. The century-old earthen structure protects the city and 1,800 acres of nearby farmland from the waters of Skagit Bay. Waves and wind gouged the outer side of...