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Divers speak after discovering piles of electrocuted fish under I-90 bridge

Sound Transit is working to fix an electrical issue along the Crosslake Connection over Lake Washington. The agency believes the issue was killing fish.
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Seattle’s sluggish economy and Mayor Wilson’s plan to goose it

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at addressing different challenges to the city's business climate that were pointed out in a recent report.
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MultiCare layoffs announced in south King County and beyond

It was announced Wednesday that there will be over 100 layoffs and closures at MultiCare hospitals and clinics across Washington state, including a few in south King County. The layoffs, which were referred to as separations in MultiCare’s official letter to the Washington Employment Security Department, will total 138
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Seattle man charged with attempted murder 4 months after alleged hammer attack

SEATTLE (TCN) -- A 23-year-old man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder following an investigation into an alleged hammer attack in May that left the victim with severe head and face injuries. According to court documents obtained by KOMO, Bey Mateen Muhammad allegedly approached George Miller outside a
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‘Boy in the tent’ enters school for the first time at age 10: ‘I...

A 10-year-old boy who lived in a tent in a park in North Seattle while his mother was trafficked on Aurora Avenue walked through school doors for the first time ever on Tuesday, capping a months-long rescue effort led by a local nonprofit and spurred by neighbors who refused to look away.
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About 2,000 Fish Die Under I-90 Light Rail, Chinook Among the Carcasses

About 2,000 fish have died in Lake Washington near Sound Transit's new I-90 light rail crossing, and among the carcasses divers found were federally protected Chinook salmon. Amateur divers first spotted a pile of dead fish offshore from Seattle in August 2025, and by summer 2026 they had located nine to 12 separate pi
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Seattle Mayor Wilson Signs Order To Stop Mid-Sized Firms From Fleeing City

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signed an executive order Tuesday directing the city's Office of Economic Development to propose a new Seattle Strategic Initiatives Fund, an attempt to stop mid-sized firms from leaving town once they outgrow local startup incubators. The order lands alongside a newly published business clim
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Harger: Two blue cities decided dealers don’t belong in recovery housing. Seattle hasn’t

Yes, I get frustrated writing about addiction and the streets in this region. But the frustration comes from somewhere simple: these are human beings who deserve to get better, and too often we prolong their suffering and call it kindness. So today, instead of just venting, I want to point at something that’s actually
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‘Ain’t no part of bridge-building happening with this leadership’: Gee questions mayor joining Embassy...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and King County Executive Girmay Zahilay joined striking Embassy Suites workers on the picket line in Pioneer Square on Labor Day. Wilson said she was there to support living wages. But KIRO host Gee Scott wasn’t buying it. “I’m the jerk that’s coming in and...
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Five Latino Men Were Arrested by Immigration Agents at a Labor Day Camping Trip...

Five men from Western Washington are being held at the ICE detention center in Tacoma after a Labor Day weekend camping trip in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest ended with their arrest by federal immigration agents, according to their families. The men had traveled with their wives, children and relatives to

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