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Harger: King County’s homelessness agency couldn’t find $13 million. Its records officer says she...

Brianne Bagby was hired to find the emails. For almost a year, she said, she wasn’t allowed to look at them. Bagby was the public records officer at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. As The Seattle Times reported Monday, she said executive staff cut off her access to the email system, then made her wait
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Trio sentenced in massive WA post office burglary ring

TACOMA, Wash. - Three people have been sentenced in a South Sound post office burglary ring that preyed on customers across five western Washington counties. The ring leader, 37-year-old Justin Tate of Tacoma, was sentenced in April to 50 months in prison and ordered to pay $10,785 in restitution. Co-defendant Gregory
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Wing Picks Denver for Walmart Drones. Two Suburbs Already Froze Hubs

Wing and Walmart will bring drone delivery to the Denver and Seattle metros in 2027, the companies said Monday, taking the partnership to 19 U.S. metros. Five are flying today: Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Atlanta, Charlotte and Orlando. The other 14 are announced and waiting, and Wing says more than three million custo
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23-year-old man injured in overnight Northgate shooting

A 23-year-old man was shot overnight in Northgate on Monday morning. At roughly 12:30 a.m., a witness called 911 reporting that one gunshot was heard near the 11000 block of 8th Avenue NE, the Seattle Police Department (SPD) confirmed. While officers were on the way, another caller advised that someone...
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Ferguson urges ferry service to resume Tuesday after engineers’ ‘sickout’ stalls fleet

SEATTLE — On a foggy day in the Puget Sound region, you'll often hear the regionally distinctive sound of a ferry horn. But on this foggy day in West Seattle, drivers and passengers instead heard the voice of a dock worker named Tiffany. "Sorry, no boats today," she could...
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‘Do a better job of handling taxpayers’ money’: Ursula says concerns over King County...

King County suspended its contract with Urban Family after an outside financial review identified about $260,000 in likely duplicate billing. The organization works with the Regional Peacekeepers Collective, a county-funded gun violence prevention network. Discussing the reported suspension during “The Gee and Ursula S
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Gunshots Send Lake Forest Park Residents Fleeing as Man Shot in Hip

A man was shot in the hip during a reported drive-by shooting in Lake Forest Park late Friday night, sending residents running and screaming as gunfire erupted near Northeast 179th Court and 28th Avenue Northeast. Officers and fire crews rushed the victim to a Seattle hospital for treatment, while the suspect or suspec
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Police find victim with 2 gunshot wounds in Northgate-area parking lot

SEATTLE — Seattle police detectives are working to find out what led up to a shooting early Monday. Around 12:30 a.m. on Monday, dispatchers received a 911 call from someone who heard a gunshot in the Northgate neighborhood. As officers were on their way, a second caller said someone...
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Before fighting to save salmon, WA had mountains of wasted fish

Over 100 years ago, Washington's booming cannery industry discarded millions of pounds of salmon annually under the false belief that the resource was inexhaustible. The historical overharvesting laid the groundwork for today's steep decline in wild salmon populations, now requiring millions of state dollars to mitigat
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Suspect arrested in deadly Skyway shooting of Coast Guardsmen

King County prosecutors requested a $3 million bail for a suspect accused of shooting and killing a 29-year-old Coast Guard member in Skyway following a verbal dispute, according to court documents.

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