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After a 10-year hiatus, the city’s best art party is back! The Stranger‘s Genius Awards return on September 12 at the Moore Theatre and past-Genius Award winners Shabazz Palaces is playing!. What are the Genius Awards?. From 2003 until 2016, The Stranger awarded the city’s most innovative freaks...

The bustling Pacific Northwest city of Seattle has become the site of notable labor unrest in its hospitality sector. As the area gears up for a major global event workers at several prominent hotels have chosen to strike. The Seattle Hotel Strike highlights deep seated frustrations over wages and working conditions in

According to a Facebook post by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, a boater heading out of Kingston Marina on a fishing trip suffered a hit-and-run after another vessel slammed into his boat and didn’t stop.

Recent census figures reveal an unexpected shift in urban migration patterns across the Pacific Northwest. While Seattle once drew thousands of newcomers each year seeking technology jobs and scenic surroundings the pace has changed markedly. The Seattle Population Slowdown appears in fresh data showing just zero point

Every August, the coastal town of Long Beach, Washington — about 3 hours from Seattle — is home to one of North America’s largest kite festivals. Free to attend, the Washington State International Kite Festival (WSIKF) returns August 17 to 23, 2026, marking its 45th year. The...

Thanks to everyone who’s sent photos and/or reports of that huge cloud visible looking toward the Cascades. Even before researching, we guessed it had to do with the wildfires, and that’s what Kevin Freitas, who sent the photo above, says: “Pyrocumulus cloud from the Little Giant Fire.”

My friend dared me to order the spiciest pickle on the menu, and I really should have said no. I did not say no. Within seconds my eyes were watering, and the waitress just smiled like she had seen it a hundred times before. Turns out, she had. This tiny...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's press secretary is leaving City Hall after less than seven months, adding to significant staffing turnover in her office.

The Coast Guard cutter Healy, a polar icebreaker and the largest vessel in the service, was towed to its home port in Seattle on July 13 for repairs after what officials on Friday said was a "significant engineering casualty."

Free school lunches are back on the table just one day after the Seattle City Council voted 6-3 to delay them. Three council members are now proposing a new approach that would fund universal meals through the city’s general fund rather than the education property tax levy that Mayor Katie Wilson had originally earmark