Seattle WA

The Varsity Theatre in Seattle’s University District went dark on Thursday, Jan. 15, closing the curtain on more than 80 years of moviegoing on the Ave. The three-screen house had long been a campus and neighborhood fixture, showing a blend of Hollywood blockbusters and arthouse picks. Its operator said mounting...

Seattle police say they tracked down a bank robber after a Goodwill employee found his demand note in the changing room and called 911.

SEATTLE (KING) - A Seattle father fought off a knife-wielding intruder who broke into his home while he and his 15-year-old daughter were inside. Seattle Police say a man in his 30s broke a windowpane about 2:40 a.m. Friday at a family’s home in the Ravenna neighborhood. He then unlocked the door and entered the home.

KIRKLAND, Wash. - A man has been charged with first-degree voyeurism after police say a hidden camera was found inside a Starbucks restroom in Kirkland in early October. According to the Kirkland Police Department (KPD), an employee discovered the device Oct. 3 in a restroom at the Starbucks on 100th Avenue Northeast...

Seattle’s Elysian Brewing is dipping its toe into the non-alcoholic beer pool with the release of its first NA beer, Easy Dust IPA, a non-alcoholic addition to its Space Dust lineup—just in time for Dry January. It’s listed with less than 0.5% (of course) and 25 IBUs, brewed with Citra, Centennial, and Amarillo hops.

Seattle police are trying to find the person who stabbed a woman in the torso in the Belltown neighborhood.

The following is an adapted excerpt from “The Burning of Moses Seattle,” a book about the murder of Chief Seattle’s dwarf grandson, Moses Seattle. Long after most of Chief Seattle’s people were forced onto reservations, his daughter, Princess Angeline, continued to live on the Seattle waterfront in the town named...

One person is dead, and three others are injured after a shooting early Saturday morning in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is making it clear she would rather stretch the city’s freshly updated growth plan than hit the brakes, leaning on upcoming environmental review to push for more neighborhood centers and wider transit-corridor upzones. Wilson has emphasized that new zoning has to result in actual homes,...

SEATTLE - During a mid-January blue-sky day, a pod of orcas put on a show for dozens of onlookers in West Seattle on Friday. Whale watchers identified the pod as Bigg's killer whales, a type that hunts marine mammals and lives in the Salish Sea. The whales appeared to be hunting.