Bellevue WA

The report is from Jen, who says two people tried to break into The Void and Little Shop of Hairdos just south of The Junction early today, and sent images:. 5:10 this morning, these two tried to break into The Void and the back door to Little Shop, met with too much resistance and interrupted by a neighbor. Appears...

Cooper McLeod qualified for his first Winter Olympics team, a dream years in the making.

Picture this: tents filling Point Defiance or lining the sidewalk next to your home, but when you call the city for help, you’re told, “There’s nothing we can do.” That’s not hypothetical. That’s HB 2489. HB 2489 would prohibit cities from enforcing camping restrictions unless they can provide a shelter bed for every...

Months after a 12-year-old boy was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a Tacoma apartment building, a police investigation remains on hold pending the Pierce County Medical Examiner’s Office’s ruling on his cause and manner of death. The Medical Examiner’s Office has declined to release any information about...

Fire may have closed the original Suni’s Restaurant in January 2023, but the story didn’t end there. After the longtime North City/Shoreline spot at 17751 15th Ave NE burned down, there has been no rebuilding at the original site. Instead, Suni’s Express opened across the street in 2024 — and business has only grown.

On Jan. 29, Pierce County quietly made a major change to how it tracks death on the streets. The Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department amended a state data-sharing agreement so local death records now include a person’s housing status. That technical tweak is expected to let public-health staff finally tally...

Fire crews in Renton found a person dead inside a home that caught fire on Friday evening. A man apparently was trapped inside the home. Neighbors said they tried to rescue him, even breaking a window with a sledgehammer just before fire crews arrived. Sadly, despite those efforts, the man...

SEATTLE — A shipment of liquid methamphetamine hidden inside candles is at the center of a federal drug case that brought a Mexico-based cartel-connected leader to a Seattle courtroom this week. Jose Luis Sanchez-Valencia, 58, was arraigned Thursday in U.S. District Court in Seattle after being transferred from...

When we looked last month at bills that local legislators are sponsoring this year, one by 34th District State House Rep. Brianna Thomas of West Seattle turned a few heads: HB 2303, preventing employers from microchipping employees. Today the State House overwhelmingly passed Thomas’s bill, 87 yes, 6 no. From the...

Newly surfaced body-worn camera video captures the moment a man allegedly lured Bellevue police officers to the downtown transit center on December 12, 2025, with what investigators say was a bogus 911 call, then suddenly attacked them with a knife. The footage shows the suspect pulling a blade and going after two...