Bellevue WA

(The Center Square) - King County Executive Girmay Zahilay says he will ask a working group to explore a tax levy that would allow voters to decide whether they would be willing to pay more taxes to build housing for the homeless. Zahilay didn’t offer much detail on the levy when he first announced it at a press conference on March 31. He said he...

RENTON, Wash. - Veteran detectives with the Renton Police Department say it's the worst case of torture they've ever seen. The suspect, 26-year-old Vipindeep Singh, pleaded not guilty during a court appearance today. King County prosecutors have charged him with six counts of domestic violence assault. The backstory:. Singh was...

A bitter eviction fight between the iconic Seattle staple, Little Red Hen, and its landlord will wage on after the eviction trial was pushed to late September.

In the early 1970s, Joel Connelly had recently earned a graduate degree from the University of Washington and was sure he would stay there for doctoral studies. Then one summer, he took a replacement job as a reporter at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, one of the city’s two daily newspapers.

Snow in Seattle? In April? Multiple areas of the city reported seeing heavy hail and even snow Wednesday afternoon. Just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, residents sent in video to Seattle Submissions, a social media outlet covering Seattle news and entertainment, capturing downtown Seattle blanketed in snow. Snow has been documented...

In Washington, electric bills are on the rise, with average costs hitting $125 in Seattle and $141 in Kitsap. Community events will tackle these growing energy concerns.

A 43-year-old Seattle man was sentenced to 75 months in prison Wednesday for his years-long activity dealing meth and fentanyl in Seattle homeless encampments and the Chinatown-International District (CID). Khampheth Keodara sold fentanyl pills, methamphetamine, and cocaine to people residing in a homeless encampment under I-5 near the CID, informally...

A shooting occurred after a fight broke out at a Safeway in Seattle’s University District Wednesday afternoon, injuring one person.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — A waterspout was spotted off the coast of Bainbridge Island on Wednesday afternoon as thunderstorms rolled through Puget Sound. The National Weather Service confirmed the waterspout, which was about 3 miles west of Magnolia about 3 p.m. The waterspout was “short lived,” NWS said.

Story in The Urbanist this week about King County Metro’s fare enforcement program. It was so over the top, I read it twice, then pulled the actual report to the King County Council, thinking there was no way it could be true. Welp. King County Metro fare enforcement 2025:...