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The city of Seattle is working to clear a homeless camp in south Seattle that neighbors say has grown more than two city blocks in size.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives account for nearly 15% of King County’s homeless population, nearly three times the share initially reported in the county’s 2026 Point-in-Time Count, according to corrected data released by researchers. The revised findings follow collaboration between the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), Chief Seattle...

Puget Sound Physicians, the group that provides emergency medicine at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, will refund more than 1,300 Washington patients a total of $410,000 under a settlement Attorney General Nick Brown announced on September 29. The average refund is nearly $300, interest included, and the checks are due by mail within 120 days. The […] The post More than 1,300 Washington patients will get mailed refund checks averaging nearly $300 from a $410,000 Puget Sound Physicians charity-ca

BOTHELL — Add in extra time for your weekend travel plans if it involves southbound I-405 through Bothell and the on-going construction zone. All lanes of southbound I-405 from SR 527 in Canyon Park to SR 522 will close Friday Oct. 9 at 10 p.m. and will not re-open until 4 a.m. Monday October 12, according to the Washington State Dept. of Transportation.

Seattle Chinatown-International District — Neighborhood Street Scene. A pilgrimage linking Japanese American incarceration sites with present-day immigration detention began in Seattle’s International District this week. About 20 people are walking 48 miles over four days to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, where organizers plan a public rally Saturday. The neighborhood was once home to a thriving Japantown before the war, according to KUOW.

Mini-golf course, pub, and restaurant Flatstick Pub has opened its much-anticipated Woodinville location and will be celebrating its grand opening on Oct. 17. The new branch, located at the restored Old Woodinville School, is the chain's largest location to date, with the mini-golf course built into the second story of the building with longer, free-flowing holes.

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Police in Bellevue safely dismantled a homemade explosive device found inside a stolen vehicle on Sunday, following the arrest of a shoplifting suspect. Shoplifting arrest leads police to stolen car, explosive device. What we know:. According to the Bellevue Police Department, at around 6 p.m. on Sunday,...

A man was arrested Oct. 5 in Seattle after being placed on the Washington State Patrol Most Wanted List in August 2026. The man faces a vehicular homicide charge stemming from a Feb. 15 head-on crash on U.S. Route 101 that killed Skylor Richford and injured Mathilde Richford. An alert...

EUGENE, Ore. — A Eugene man has a larger than life hobby growing giant pumpkins. We visited Russ Pugh's property to see just how heavy the fruit of his labor was this year. "You know, I've been doing this competitively for 25 years," Pugh says, "and when, I think I was eight years old, I grew up in Kansas and I went to the Kansas State Fair and I saw what I thought was the world's biggest pumpkin. Now looking back at it, it probably weighed maybe 300 pounds. But ever since then, I've wanted to g

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is facing criticism over remarks she made during a recent forum on fascism, Israel and Gaza. Wilson appeared Sept. 24 at Town Hall Seattle with authors Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor to discuss their book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World.