Seattle WA

SEATTLE — In 2025, Seattle Public Utilities reported clearing nearly 2 million pounds of trash and debris from homeless encampments and through RV cleanup efforts. One volunteer group in West Seattle contributes a small portion of that work for what it considers to be a big impact. Erik Bell...

A Kirkland woman who is quadriplegic has set a Washington skydiving record after jumping from nearly 18,000 feet. She says skydiving gives her a sense of freedom beyond her disability.

A 25-year-old Mexican national was sentenced in Seattle on Friday after he was caught driving a stolen car with a gun inside.

9:52 PM: After 911 got a call from a driver who reported another driver shooting at her in a “road-rage incident,” police have found “casings all over” the 35th SW and SW Morgan vicinity. No report of injuries; the victim said the shooter was in a ‘white BMW SUV.” Police closed Morgan between 34th and 35th while investigating and collecting evidence.

Grocery store giants have been fined millions of dollars this year for overcharging customers due to scanning errors, leading to a lack of funding for statewide random unannounced inspections of price-scanner systems at retailers by the Washington State Department of Agriculture. Since the price to fill your grocery cart has...

A 22-year-old man was arrested Saturday afternoon for allegedly attempting to kidnap an 8-year-old girl in West Seattle. At approximately 2 p.m. Saturday, officers with the Seattle Police Department (SPD) were called to respond to reports of a young man trying to take a young girl while she was playing in the front yard of a home with her friends...

Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown has filed a lawsuit against the corporate owner of Albertsons, Safeway, and Haggen. He’s accusing the grocery chains of overcharging and being deceptive on their ‘buy one get one free’ (BOGO) deals. The owner, Albertsons Companies, operates 225 retail grocery stores across the state.

(SEATTLE) Wegovy, Ozempic and Mounjaro are weight loss and diabetes drugs that have made quite a splash in health news . They target regulatory pathways involved in both obesity and diabetes and are widely considered breakthroughs for weight loss and blood sugar control. But do these drugs point toward a root cause of metabolic disease? What inspired their development in the first place? It turns...

A Seattle-area high school student is among five finalists in the national Doodle for Google Contest. Her artwork will be displayed on Google’s homepage on April 28. Kameirah Johnson, a senior at Lakeside High School in North Seattle, created a digital painting of three Black girls lying in a field surrounded by golden bursts of fireflies. Their hair — puffy and braided — spells “Google...

KENT, Wash. — A suspected impaired driver died after a collision with a utility pole following a police pursuit in Kent on Saturday night, according to authorities. At around 9:21 p.m., a Kent police officer spotted a driver believed to be under the influence in the city’s downtown area and attempted to pull the vehicle over. The driver did not stop and instead accelerated...