Bellevue WA

The body of Violet Benjamin, a missing 28-year-old Ballard woman, was recovered Wednesday in the water near a public boat launch at Shilshole Avenue Northwest and 14th Avenue Northwest. Her father, Yobie Benjamin, has been in Seattle searching for his daughter since she went missing. Now, he waits for the...

SEATTLE — A jury has convicted a 33-year-old man accused of shooting a disabled Navy veteran on the Seattle waterfront last summer after a confrontation that prosecutors said began with accusations of “stolen valor.”. Gregory Timm was found guilty following his criminal trial in King County Superior Court...

A 29-year-old suspect allegedly attempted to break into the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) West Precinct on Wednesday night while armed with a taser. At approximately 10 p.m., officers received reports of a suspicious person attempting to break into the West Precinct, according to SPD. Officers within the building...

Sound Transit will celebrate opening a light rail connection across Lake Washington later this month, but behind the excitement, the agency faces a brutal financial future. Sound Transit can't deliver on its ST3 promises to voters by 2046 as planned.

Transportation staff in Bellevue are proposing to reduce speed limits on streets currently posted at 30 miles per hour or higher, following results from the city’s Safe Speeds Bellevue program. According to information shared by Jennifer Cook, Transportation Public Information Officer for the City of Bellevue, the...

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is currently investigating two connected stabbings in Rainier Valley on Wednesday morning. At approximately 6:10 a.m., officers responded to the first stabbing in the 8100 block of Rainier Avenue S., finding a 33-year-old man in the parking lot with a stab wound to the leg, SPD...

Issaquah detectives turned to a police drone Thursday to track down a man wanted in a felony domestic-violence investigation in Old Town, arresting him after he stepped out of a parked vehicle, according to the department. Patrol officers had first learned the suspect fled the initial scene, and an Issaquah Police...

Last week, the Snohomish Regional Drug Task Force (SRDTF), in partnership with the Everett Police Department’s Anti-Crime Team (ACT), arrested a 63-year-old Mountlake Terrace man on multiple charges, including possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, and suboxone strips. The arrest...

With the 2026 legislative session wrapped up in Olympia on March 12, one of the most consequential pieces of legislation that passed was the income tax on households making more than $1 million. The Washington State House of Representatives passed the ‘millionaires’ tax after over 24 hours of debate on...

The No Kings movement is gearing up for a statewide return next Saturday, with roughly 66 protests scheduled across Washington and at least seven separate gatherings planned inside Seattle. Organizers are billing the coordinated actions as nonviolent demonstrations meant to push back against federal enforcement and...