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I really didn't want to get rabies shots, but five days after waking up with a ba t in my bedroom, I rolled up my sleeve and dropped my drawers. Why it matters: Rabies is almost 100% fatal once symptoms emerge, which can take weeks to months. It's been detected in at least 14 bats in Washington state this year, includi

A 70-year-old Lake Tapps man died after driving the wrong way on State Route 164 near Enumclaw on July 30, colliding head-on with a 33-year-old Enumclaw man who also died at the scene. The crash happened near milepost 11 in unincorporated King County, and it shut down the roadway for three hours and 35 minutes while in

A video of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson dancing alongside Seattle rapper Y2K is making the rounds on social media. The clip, posted on Instagram by DubSea, shows Wilson bobbing and swaying next to the rapper during what appears to be a local event. Co-hosts Jake Skorheim and Spike O’Neill of “The Jake and Spike Show” on

SEATTLE — A recall petition filed against Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is scheduled for a hearing Aug. 31 in King County Superior Court, after the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office completed its review of the petition. The hearing is set for 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 31, in Courtroom...

An initial round of layoffs is imminent at the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. Management reportedly informed the agency’s executive leadership team last week which staffers will lose their jobs in late August or early September. Agency CEO Kelly Kinnison told city and county leaders basic details about th

Now this is a great repurposing of a building — beloved family-owned drugstore to all-volunteer roller rink. Here’s how that happened. The popular Skate King roller rink went out of business in 2015. That meant, until this summer, there were no indoor roller skating options on the Eastside. But as of July 1, disco ball

A Washington woman had a blood alcohol concentration of .40 following a single-vehicle crash, which is five times the legal limit for drivers in the state. A Washington woman had to be cut out of her car after crashing into a ditch Sunday evening, and the number deputies say doctors later found in her blood helps expla

A woman walking her leashed dog near Lake Whatcom found herself being repeatedly charged and followed by a black bear on Saturday morning, in an encounter that has put Whatcom County wildlife officials on alert. The bear approached around 10:50 a.m. before the hiker was able to get away unharmed, according to wildlife

Seattle’s rich people fucked themselves over for decades, and now you have to pay for it: With city funding, a number of Seattle’s wealthier white communities buried their power lines under the sidewalk decades ago so they could look more like the suburbs. They did a bad job of it, and now the power cables break so oft

After years of activist complaints that King County is not doing enough to monitor immigration enforcement flights using its Seattle airport, the county has hired an employee who will ensure those flights follow safety regulations and count the number of handcuffed and shackled people coming on and off. The newly...