Bellevue School District Faces $20 Million in Cuts for 2025–26 School Year
The Bellevue School District is moving forward with $20 million in budget cuts for the 2025–26 school year as it works to address ongoing financial shortfalls. Superintendent Dr. Kelly Aramaki outlined the district’s fiscal situation during the August 7, 2025 school board meeting, citing years of operating costs...
Shooting leaves man seriously injured in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood
SEATTLE - It was a busy night for law enforcement near the Lofts at 66 Bell Street after police say a man was shot in the chest early Sunday morning. The victim remains hospitalized, and police say a suspect is still on the loose. The shooting happened in an alley...
Seattle Inventor’s Creation to Convert Gas Vehicles to Hybrids
The kit allows the fossil fuel vehicle to run on a battery, then on fuel when the battery goes down.
Person airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries after Olympia house fire
One person was airlifted to the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle with life-threatening injuries following a house fire on Sunday in southeast Olympia. Fire Officer Russell Hermann with the Olympia Fire Department said a single engine was dispatched at around 10:40 a.m. Sunday to the house fire at...
Man shot and killed by officer during Bellevue airsoft rifle incident identified
BELLEVUE, Wash. — The man shot and killed by Bellevue police during a SWAT standoff last week has been identified. In a Monday release, the King County Medical Examiner's Office named Patrick Sathyanathan, 60, as the suspect shot by an officer during an Aug. 7 incident. PREVIOUS COVERAGE |...
Seattle-area men sentenced for drug trafficking, one linked to Hookah bar shooting
Two Seattle-area men were sentenced to prison for their roles in a violent drug trafficking organization, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. Khaliil Ahmed, aka “Bossup,” 27, will spend six years in prison for two counts of illegally possessing firearms. Yohannes...
Some Washington state Costco food courts now have Coke at their soda fountains
Costco’s cult-favorite $1.50 hot-dog-and-drink combo is changing. Don’t panic. The Issaquah-headquartered company hasn’t changed the meal deal’s price; the company’s 89-year-old co-founder once said he would be dead before that happened. (He's alive, but retired.) Instead, fountain soda dispensers at the company’s...
Two ‘significant’ members of ‘violent’ Seattle drug ring sentenced
Two Seattle-area men who were “significant” members of a “violent” drug trafficking organization were each sentenced to six years in prison Monday, according to acting U.S. Attorney Teal Luthy Miller.
Body pulled from Duwamish River in Seattle
SEATTLE - A body was pulled from the Duwamish River in Seattle on Sunday evening, deputies said. Before 5:30 p.m., a paddleboarder reported what they believed to be a human body in the river near the Yacht Club on South 93rd Street. When authorities arrived, they found a deceased person...
From 7-year-old idea to million-dollar sale: Seattle teen’s card game bought by toy giant
A Seattle teenager turned his childhood creativity into a million-dollar success.
