Seattle WA

Rumors have been swirling around campus since the mysterious red obelisk located between the Casey and Garrand buildings on upper campus appeared last year. A few weeks ago, the gossip was finally extinguished after it was revealed that the obelisk was serving as a placeholder for a new piece of artwork—a gilded...

A massive residence fire in Kent prompted an immediate Puget Sound Fire (PSF) response early in the morning on Thursday. At approximately 5:26 a.m., PSF responded to a fully engulfed house fire in the 10900 block of S.E. 235th Street, PSF announced. PSF confirmed that all occupants within the home...

An officer-involved shooting occurred last week in the Chinatown-International District (CID), leading to the death of a suspect who held an axe and pointed a handgun at officers. On Oct. 30, at approximately 4:15 p.m., Seattle Police Department (SPD) officers were dispatched to reports of a man holding an axe...

The long strange saga of the boat that was abandoned in the Don Armeni Boat Launch parking lot has come to a close. On Wednesday Nov. 5 Bankers Towing out of Renton came to lift the boat up with slings, and put it on a flatbed trailer to be taken away by Republic Services.

KOMO News - 11/02/2025 05:00:00 PM. A series of violent crimes in downtown Seattle, including a shooting at Ohm Nightclub and a carjacking, have sparked significant concern among the city's residents. These incidents, which follow a triple murder at the same nightclub earlier this year, have led to calls for a...

As Seattle considers sanctioned homeless camps again, we stand at a familiar crossroads. I've spent five years with We Heart Seattle doing boots-on-the-ground outreach and cleanup, alongside lived experience advisors who have worked in and managed prior sanctioned camps, including Share/Wheel, Nickelsville, Camp...

Police are continuing to investigate after a car discovered abandoned at the Central District’s Thurgood Marshall Elementary School Wednesday morning was linked to an overnight shooting when a victim who had been shot in the head and dumped at Harborview. Police say a driver dropped the victim before fleeing...

Seattle police arrested a man in possession of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) this week following a multi-agency operation.

SEATTLE - As we enter the 35th day of the government shutdown, federal workers—including those TSA and air traffic control employees at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport–are feeling the pinch. To help those workers, there are food drives happening at the Seattle airport every weekday at the SEA Conference...

Penny Sapp gets through few meetings these days without someone bringing up the cost of medical care at the Kitsap County Jail. Prices have more tripled in the less than a decade and become a major contributor to the county’s multi-million budget deficit next year. Sapp, Kitsap County’s chief of corrections, says the...