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One of Seattle’s heavyweight law firms is making a very public bet on downtown. Foster Garvey is packing up its current Seattle offices and heading for West8, the re-imagined 28-story tower in the Denny Triangle that used to house a big chunk of Amazon’s local staff. The long-term deal puts the firm on multiple...

Tanaka Ramen & Izakaya, the Hawaii-born ramen and izakaya concept, quietly slipped into Kirkland this month with a new location on Central Way. The opening brings the brand’s signature heavy-broth bowls and izakaya-style small plates to Moss Bay, where downtown’s restaurant lineup has been steadily filling out....

DES MOINES, Wash. — Hours before a King County judge ordered a murder suspect to be held on $5 million bail, a grieving mother buried her son in his Indiana hometown, more than 2,000 miles from the crime scene in Des Moines, Washington. "It's been a very hard day....

Seattle’s new mayor was speaking to a roomful of supporters the other day when she dropped a rather blunt assessment of our city. “You know what?” Katie Wilson said. “This city is filthy rich.”. The crowd laughed a bit. Can you say that when you’re mayor? Should...

The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has rescinded a $3 million grant it gave the Low Income Housing Institute to build 60 new low-barrier tiny houses outside King County’s youth detention center, claiming LIHI delayed the process by failing to secure a site in time. Tiny houses are small,...

You come across a new forensic report claiming Kurt Cobain’s 1994 death may have been staged to look like a suicide, and the police have just responded. The Medical Examiner and Seattle Police still stand by the original suicide ruling and say they won’t reopen the case without new, compelling evidence. This piece...

Multiple people were detained in a drug bust Feb. 12 at an East Bremerton house that police say has attracted repeated calls for almost a year. Just after 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office announced that they had taken into custody six people from a house in the 2100 block of Larkin Lane,...

Washington State’s largest winemaker owned winery offers complimentary flights at tasting rooms in Seattle and Walla Walla. SEATTLE – House of Smith, the trailblazing winery founded by award-winning winemaker Charles Smith, is celebrating a quarter‑century of making wine for the people with a bold, year‑long...

The sixth round of the 2026 Monster Energy Supercross and SMX World Championship is set to kick off in Seattle, WA this weekend. Chase Curtis discusses the hurdles Dirt Wurx and SMX has had to overcome this week – following the Seahawks winning Super Bowl LX, what the weather forecast is looking like, and some injury...

There is an ironic situation on the Seattle waterfront: the Port of Seattle has become the kind of obstacle to economic development it was created to overcome. About 100 years ago, the railroads had a lock on the waterfront. Their arrival had connected Seattle to the rest of the continent, but they were strangling...