Seattle WA

BELLEVUE, Wash. — Nearly a month after Amazon and T-Mobile announced hundreds of job cuts in Bellevue, dealing a blow to the region’s tech workforce, artificial intelligence company OpenAI is opening a new office in the city. The San Francisco-based company will mark the launch of its Bellevue...

SEATTLE — A Seattle woman who shot and killed a rideshare driver, then stole his car and drove to get her haircut, has pleaded guilty to murder. Ne'Iani Allen-Bailey, 20, faces between 15 and 23 years in prison when she is sentenced later this month for her plea to second-degree murder with a firearm enhancement,...

SEATTLE — A Mercer Island man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of wire fraud for secretly transferring $35 million from his employer into a failed cryptocurrency venture. Nevin Shetty, former chief financial officer of tech company Fabric, was convicted...

King County prosecutors have finally filed charges against the 33 activists arrested after occupying and vandalizing the University of Washington’s brand-new Interdisciplinary Engineering Building last spring, an incident that reportedly caused more than $1 million in damage. The building had been operational for...

SEATTLE — A 20-year-old man was arrested early Thursday morning after Seattle police say he vandalized state property and ran from officers in the South Park neighborhood. Just before 1 a.m., a patrol officer spotted the man spraying graffiti on the lower West Marginal Way South bridge in the 700 block of South...

The MV Walla Walla was back in action on the Edmonds–Kingston run by Wednesday evening, just hours after a hard landing at the Edmonds terminal that threw the commute into chaos. The afternoon incident wiped out several late sailings, stacked up long lines of cars at both terminals and rattled nerves, but no injuries...

Mayor Katie Wilson introduced three pieces of legislation on Wednesday that she says will reduce barriers to tiny house villages—groups of small, freestanding shelters—by reducing bureaucratic obstacles, freeing up money, and removing a cap on the size of tiny house villages that Wilson called out of step with...

The Lacey Fire District says crews rescued two dogs in two separate incidents.

The Seattle Fire Department has rescued two large dogs that got stuck down an embankment.

Starbucks announced it will open a corporate operations office in Nashville later this year, a move that has prompted renewed calls from Seattle business leaders for the city to rethink its approach to employer taxes. The Seattle-based coffee giant said its global headquarters will stay in Seattle’s SODO neighborhood...