Two western Washington school districts debut electric buses, boosting grid reliability
SEATTLE — Puget Sound Energy (PSE) has completed installing five vehicle-to-grid charging systems at two Western Washington districts, and when the buses aren't busy taking students to and from school, they'll be plugged into the chargers, which can transfer energy in both directions instead of just charging the...
Unreleased DB Cooper hijacking flight audio recording revealed
The 12-minute audio has been pieced together from tapes dating back to the day of the incident itself. One of the most notorious unsolved crimes in American history, the hijacking - which occurred on November 24th, 1971 - began when a man, who identified himself as Dan Cooper, boarded Northwest Orient Airlines Flight...
Rivers expected to flood in Skagit, Snohomish, and King counties
Heavy rainfall is expected to cause flooding in Snohomish, King, and Skagit counties, with communities near the Snoqualmie, Snohomish, and Skagit Rivers urged to prepare for dangerous conditions. Snohomish County Emergency Management advises residents to plan for potential flood impacts and stay informed through...
27-year sentence for habitual offender that killed Lynnwood grandmother
LYNNWOOD—Robert Craig Rowland, a 39-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Tuesday, December 2, for the second-degree murder of 83-year-old Trudy Slanger in a fatal wrong-way collision on 525 near Highway 99. Snohomish County Superior Court Judge George Appel facilitated...
Falling tree crushes cars in Tacoma
Much of the Sound is preparing for the incoming severe weather, but a pair of Tacoma homeowners already felt Mother Nature’s wrath.
Tacoma woman sentenced to prison for bank fraud scheme
Aneicia Ford was accused of stealing the account information of 23 victims from a credit union where she was employed.
Falling tree on Carnation Duvall road kills woman, injures man
SEATTLE — A tragic accident unfolded on Carnation Duvall Road northeast and Fay Road northeast (SR 203) on Saturday, where a tree fell onto a car, resulting in a fatality crash, according to investigators. The falling tree sparked a two-vehicle car crash that shut down both directions of Carnation...
Seattle to Bellevue just got easier: Light rail hits I-90 before May 31
Light rail service across Lake Washington on the I-90 floating bridge will begin before May 31, Sound Transit officials confirmed this week. “We as an agency are doing everything we can to open it sooner than that,” Rachelle Cunningham, a Sound Transit public information officer, said. The Crosslake Connection,...
Fallen tree kills 1, badly injures another in Carnation, WA
CARNATION, Wash. - One person has died and another is fighting for their life after a tree fell on their car in Carnation on Saturday. The impact of the tree killed one person at the scene, located in the area of Duvall Road Northeast and Fay Road Northeast on Dec. 6.
UPDATE: ‘Suspicious device’ found outside Southwest Precinct; SPD determines what it was
1:55 PM: Thanks for the tips. Police have blocked off the area around the Southwest Precinct – including taping off SW Webster, as the photo shows – and are searching for someone in the area. They’ve also called in the Arson and Bomb Squad. This all started with the discovery of something that officers themselves...
