Seattle WA

A man with more than $210,000 in active warrants for burglary and escape was arrested in Seattle this week for possession of a stolen Audi SUV, police said. The Seattle Police Department said an officer spotted the Audi SUV shortly after midnight on Monday, Dec. 29, and saw it had a license plate belonging to […]

When I set out to write Standing on the Crack: The Legacy of Five Jewish Families from Seattle’s Vibrant Gilded Age, I wanted to tell a story that had been largely overlooked in our city’s historical narrative. Seattle’s past is often framed around lumber, gold, and aviation, but the Jewish families who arrived here...

A City of Kent Corrections Facility inmate, who had a medical emergency and was transported by medics to a Renton hospital, died of natural causes, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. DaMenique Lajuan Beasley, 36, died of complications following seizure and cardiac arrest in the setting of...

BALLARD — For years, patrons at Ballard’s Waterwheel Lounge knew that the legendary 50-year-old dive bar was scheduled to close in early 2025 because the building was being knocked down for a new apartment complex — there’s been a countdown clock behind the bar ticking away the days. As of New Year’s Eve, that clock...

Police did not say who they thought committed the murders before dying by suicide.

There was no indication of who built it — or, as some joked at the time, what planet it might have come from.

Joe Nguyen is stepping down as director of Washington state’s Department of Commerce and will be the next leader of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber. Nguyen told Commerce employees on Dec. 22 that he is leaving but didn’t disclose his new job. He said he didn’t anticipate taking off “until sometime in January.”

Alexander Smith, 24, was walking along I-5 on Christmas Day when troopers tried to get him off the road in a peaceable way, including talking to him, offering to drive him to a light rail station and pay for his fare, and finally escorting the defendant so that he could walk to an interstate exit while they followed...

A person was pronounced dead late Wednesday night, Dec. 31 after being trapped underneath a vehicle in the 400 block of SW 155th Street (map below), according to the King County […] The post Person dies after being trapped under vehicle in Burien Wednesday night, Sheriff’s Office says appeared first on The B-Town...

SEATTLE — A vacant property owned by the city of Seattle has been a source of ongoing problems ever since a homeless camp moved in, according to neighbors. The encampment had been sprawled out across the site of the former Pecos Pit BBQ restaurant at 4400 35th Ave. SW. Neighbors said that little has been done to...