Seattle WA

People on the north end of Mercer Island can flush their toilets again.

Shoreline resident Dr. Daniel Lin is the new chair of the Department of Urology at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Lin joined UW Medicine in 2001 and is a professor in the Department of Urology. He holds the Pritt Family Endowed Chair in Prostate Cancer Research at the School of Medicine. Lin is also...

Amazon is scaling down its Seattle footprint after announcing it will not renew its lease for office space in the city’s Denny Triangle area.

An active case of tuberculosis has been linked to Rainier Beach High School. Public Health-Seattle and King County stated via a news release that about 130 students and staff will be tested based on their exposure. Officials said it’s just a precaution as tuberculosis is not easy to spread. It...

SEATTLE — Seattle police are warning residents about a surge in roofing scams targeting elderly homeowners, after investigators uncovered 22 victims and nearly $932,000 in financial losses since April of last year. The average victim is 76 years old. Scammers pose as roofers, show up uninvited at homes, and...

SEATTLE — A tree-cutting service backed down from removing a redwood in Seattle on Thursday after neighbors pointed out a bald eagle perched in its branches. The property owner brought in the tree cutter after the city issued a permit to remove the redwood so he can put in a retaining wall and eventually build a home...

YAKIMA, Wash. — Yakima police are investigating after an 18-year-old woman with what appeared to be a gunshot wound arrived at Yakima MultiCare Memorial Hospital early Thursday morning. Officers responded to the hospital at about 2:48 a.m. after the victim arrived in a private vehicle. Her condition was listed...

A Seattle man received a 20-year sentence for the 2023 fatal shooting of a woman behind the Muckleshoot Casino. On Feb. 20, a King County Superior Court judge sentenced Marketha McCoy, 24, to 240 months — 20 years — in prison for second-degree murder, after pleading guilty to the crime on Dec. 11, 2025. This charge...

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) says two teen boys were arrested after a shooting on Wednesday afternoon in the Mount Baker neighborhood. Now, police are looking for two more possible suspects.

SEATTLE — A man accused of posing as a U.S. postal worker and forcing his way into a Seattle home is now jailed on $1 million bail as investigators look into what police believe may have been a foiled extortion plot. Seattle police arrested 31-year-old Ian Blair last week....