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KOMO 4 on-air staff are set to no longer be represented by their labor union — the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — after a narrow vote last week. Anchors and reporters at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s Seattle-area station voted 9-7 last Wednesday to remove...

A 17-year-old boy whom King County prosecutors said was part of a trio that opened fire on undercover officers in South Seattle is now facing a series of serious felony charges in juvenile court as investigators continue to sort out each suspect’s role in a complex, multi-location case. Prosecutors...

A Seattle man arrested Sunday is accused of selling drugs to another man who died at a music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson made her first press availability in weeks on Wednesday, but her answers on surveillance cameras, a housing task force, and the recall effort left Jake Skorheim and Spike O’Neill, co-hosts of “The Jake and Spike Show” on KIRO Newsradio, unimpressed. When KOMO reporter...

We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez said she gave up a corporate career, invested $25,000 of her own money, and spent three years picking up trash for free before building a volunteer army that has removed 2.2 million pounds of debris from Seattle’s streets and encampments. So when a state investigation and public s

Washington is setting records for data center growth—but is that good news or cause for concern?

Policy researcher Eric Zimmerman claims the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program expanded nationwide based on a flawed centerpiece statistic, arguing an initial study's "58% reduction in arrests" was a misapplied, non-factual metric. Critics contend LEAD fails to show meaningful impacts on homelessness, em

Seattle officials are weighing a crackdown on RVs and motorhomes, which would include banning them from parking overnight on city streets without a permit. The big picture: City officials estimate a quarter of people living unsheltered in the Seattle area live in vehicles. But the city's only safe parking lot for RVs c

BELLEVUE, Wash. - In an email sent to the Washington State Employment Security Department, TikTok said it will be laying off 75 employees from its Bellevue facility in Lincoln Square North. The tech company said the last day for employees who do not find new positions within the company or...

SEATTLE — Starbucks has filed a new notice with Washington state detailing 224 job layoffs tied to its Seattle headquarters, but the company says the filing does not represent a new round of layoffs. The Seattle-based coffee giant filed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, notice on...