Kent police arrest two in 2024 Campus Park killing of high school student
Kent police have arrested two Auburn residents in connection with the fatal shooting of a Kent-Meridian High School student at Campus Park last year.
Eggslut Is Coming to Seattle, and It’s Already Causing Problems for Its Neighbors
Harry Cheadle is an Eater writer and editor who covers the Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco metro areas. He has been a journalist for 15 years and writing about food in Seattle since 2023. The first time Russ Flint heard of Eggslut was last year. He was at his specialty...
Kent mother pleads guilty to fentanyl death of 3-year-old daughter
A 36-year-old woman pleaded guilty last week to second-degree manslaughter domestic violence for causing the death of her 3-year-old daughter in 2022 when she left fentanyl out in her Kent apartment that the girl ingested. Carolyn D. Franklin entered the guilty plea June 5 in King County Superior Court, according...
SEIU leader David Huerta released from custody after arrest during immigration raid protest
California union leader David Huerta has been released from custody after his arrest during an immigration raid protest.
Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts—June gloom on the horizon, Cliff Mass says
A series of warm days in western Washington will soon come to an end. June gloom is on its way, Atmospheric Sciences Professor at the University of Washington (UW), Cliff Mass, told “The Jason Rantz Show” on KTTH Monday. June gloom to arrive Thursday. “The June gloom will...
Seattle’s young adult exodus: Millennials, Gen Z leaving the city in post-COVID trend
Census data revealed that Seattle’s young-adult population has declined since the start of the pandemic, bucking the trend that the Puget Sound is a thriving hub for Gen Z, latter millennials, and its hybrid in-between group, “zillennials.”. The population of young adults between the ages of 25 and...
2025 is on track to see record number of evictions in Washington
This article was originally published by InvestigateWest. Every four months, Philippe Knab, the reentry and eviction defense program director for Washington’s Office of Civil Legal Aid, compiles a report on eviction trends across the state. Since 2021, each review has painted a worse picture than before – especially...
Rantz: Microsoft Build conference ditches Seattle over homelessness, open-air drug use
Seattle just lost a high-profile Microsoft conference due to the city’s rampant homelessness, open-air drug use, and other criminal behavior. In addition to canceling next year’s event, Microsoft will also be “releasing holds for all future years,” according to an internal Visit Seattle email obtained by “The Jason...
People Drive From All Over Washington To Shop At This Massive Dollar Store
In the land of tech giants and coffee connoisseurs, who would have thought that a humble Dollar Tree in Seattle would become a pilgrimage site for bargain hunters?. Yet here we are, standing in the rain (because, Seattle) outside the green-lettered beacon of affordability at 1549 NE 145th St. You’ve...
You asked, so we asked: West Seattle plans for ‘No Kings’ day of action...
Passing through The Junction on Saturday, we noted members of West Seattle Indivisible sign-waving, as planned, to remind people about the “No Kings” rally at Cal Anderson Park next Saturday (June 14), one of hundreds of planned protests nationwide. We’ve also been receiving questions by email, text, and voice about...