Seattle WA

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson admits she broke her Starbucks boycott after visiting Pike Place Market, declining to say if others should shun the company.

SEATTLE — A large group of homeless services organizations said they have worked over the past month to place homeless individuals in Pioneer Square into shelters, due to concerns that the FIFA World Cup would disperse them and hurt their ability to receive help for weeks, but shelter capacity limited their efforts.

Rescue officials are urging swimmers to take caution after two men were pulled Tuesday from dangerously cold lakes in Seattle and Issaquah, where air temperatures approached 90 degrees. Seattle Fire Department rescuers pulled a 19-year-old swimmer out of Lake Washington about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, about 10 minutes after h

Rainier Beer this week confirmed that its tentpole music festival R-Day is returning to Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood on June 12 with a lineup that includes Dehd, Kadabra, Telehealth, and Lace Cadence. There also will be beer gardens and other vendors. Get more details about the event here. Puyallup's Shoestring Ci

An early morning fire ripped through a landscaping business along Redmond–Fall City Road (State Route 202) on Wednesday, destroying two buildings and about 15 vehicles and forcing a shutdown of part of the busy corridor as crews fought the flames in the dark. Officials shared new details in a...

TUKWILA, Wash. — Tukwila police responded Thursday evening after receiving reports of a gunshot near South 152nd Street and Macadam Road South. According to investigators, officers arrived and learned that two people had been involved in a fight in a nearby parking lot. During the confrontation, one of the individuals

Retirement Living's latest ranking of where Americans can most afford to retire puts Washington near the bottom, and plenty of Seattle-area households are already feeling it in their checkbooks. With so many older residents living on fixed incomes, the mix of steep housing prices and day-to-day expenses is forcing hard

A new pallet shelter community is opening next week in Interbay, providing 75 units of transitional housing for adults experiencing chronic homelessness. The site, called Bayside Enhanced Shelter, is located at 1551 W. Armory Way. It is operated by Everyone Deserves Housing and was built by Pallet Shelter, a company ba

BELLINGHAM, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – We could see some lightning in our skies going into this weekend. Slight chance of thunderstorms is expected for our region Friday, June 5 and that chance increases on Saturday, June 6. The National Weather Service (NWS) in Seattle described the incoming storm as a...

Seattle won't get the 500 emergency shelter beds Mayor Katie Wilson aimed to create ahead of the World Cup in June. The mayor addressed the failure Wednesday, as well as her relationship with Starbucks after enjoying a blueberry muffin latte from the Pike Place Market location. Mayor Katie Wilson still...