Seattle WA

Washington State faces a surging bed bug crisis, with urban and corridor cities leading infestations per 2026 treatment data. Five hotspots—Kent, Seattle, Auburn, Federal Way, and Tacoma—are mobilizing inspections, awareness campaigns, and professional treatments to combat the onslaught. Kent: Top Hotspot. Kent tops...

SEATTLE - Some western Washington school districts are delayed on Friday, Mar. 13 because of winter weather. Check the status of your district. A few locations in the North Sound reported a wintry mix Thursday night and several neighborhoods throughout western Washington woke up to snow flurries on Friday morning.

SEATTLE — Three unknown orcas have been spotted in Vancouver Harbour and more recently near Seattle and Olympia, sparking the excitement of western Washington residents who track local orca activity closely. The trio of transient orcas, dubbed "mystery whales" by the San Juan Island-based Orca Behavior Institute,...

On Wednesday, Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law a bill aimed at protecting access to groceries and pharmacies by preventing property restrictions that block new stores from opening in neighborhoods after a grocery store or pharmacy closes. House Bill 2294, sponsored by Rep. Darya Farivar (D-Lake City), prohibits...

See the cash-only chili parlor dive bar in Ballard (Seattle) that is so good, even Food Network TV's Guy Fieri paid them a visit.

And in Pacific NW Magazine of the printed Times on March 15, 2025. Weyerhaeuser’s shrine to wood was built to move as waterfront changed. Meant as a grand showcase for the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company, the building in our “Then” photo provided an administrative headquarters in 1923 while offering a structural ode to...

2:07 PM: In a presentation prepared for today’s Sound Transit Board System Extension Committee – meeting right now – ST staff says they can get the West Seattle Link Extension light-rail price tag down as low as $4.9 billion. The proposal would include three major components – first, dropping the Avalon station:

Traveling through SeaTac lately? The airport's been throwing more curveballs than usual, but there are some heroes making it all a bit easier.

Sound Transit will close Kent Station’s northwest Sounder surface parking lot from March 16 through the rest of the year due to ongoing construction of the new Sounder parking garage. The only available spots for this lot will be three ADA parking spots, according to Sound Transit. This closure...

Federal Way Link Extension light rail will operate on a reduced schedule during weekday evenings for a few weeks starting March 23 to install additional fencing to combat copper wire theft. The 7.8-mile extension opened in December 2025 and runs between Angle Lake in SeaTac and Federal Way, with stations...