Seattle WA

After the city cleared a Ballard encampment citing safety concerns, nearby business owners say months of break-ins, vandalism and lost revenue took a toll, and they’re unsure whether the relief will last.

ARREST: Seattle Police joined King County Sheriff’s Deputies this past hour for a warrant suspect believed to be in the Roxhill Park vicinity. They’ve just made an arrest, around 3 pm, after a foot pursuit, near 26th/Cambridge; they’ve just reopened 26th after a brief closure. We’re still gathering more info on this.

Multiple Seattle police officers were involved in a shooting with a suspect in Ballard Thursday evening after responding to a domestic violence disturbance. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers were initially called to N.W. 62nd Street in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood at approximately 5:40 p.m. Thursday...

Following reports of a unique real estate strategy, a realtor who targeted Gig Harbor residents seeking to avoid estate taxes ended up selling properties out of state, driven by Washington having the highest estate tax in the country. Rather than moving from one quaint city to another, KIRO host John...

One of Seattle’s heavyweight law firms is making a very public bet on downtown. Foster Garvey is packing up its current Seattle offices and heading for West8, the re-imagined 28-story tower in the Denny Triangle that used to house a big chunk of Amazon’s local staff. The long-term deal puts the firm on multiple...

DES MOINES, Wash. — Hours before a King County judge ordered a murder suspect to be held on $5 million bail, a grieving mother buried her son in his Indiana hometown, more than 2,000 miles from the crime scene in Des Moines, Washington. "It's been a very hard day....

Seattle’s new mayor was speaking to a roomful of supporters the other day when she dropped a rather blunt assessment of our city. “You know what?” Katie Wilson said. “This city is filthy rich.”. The crowd laughed a bit. Can you say that when you’re mayor? Should...

The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has rescinded a $3 million grant it gave the Low Income Housing Institute to build 60 new low-barrier tiny houses outside King County’s youth detention center, claiming LIHI delayed the process by failing to secure a site in time. Tiny houses are small,...

You come across a new forensic report claiming Kurt Cobain’s 1994 death may have been staged to look like a suicide, and the police have just responded. The Medical Examiner and Seattle Police still stand by the original suicide ruling and say they won’t reopen the case without new, compelling evidence. This piece...

Multiple people were detained in a drug bust Feb. 12 at an East Bremerton house that police say has attracted repeated calls for almost a year. Just after 6:30 a.m. Thursday morning, the Kitsap County Sheriff's Office announced that they had taken into custody six people from a house in the 2100 block of Larkin Lane,...