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He told his colleagues only after the money was gone. Nevin Shetty, the former chief financial officer of a Seattle-based tech startup, was sentenced Thursday to two years in federal prison after secretly transferring $35 million in company funds into a cryptocurrency platform he ran on the side — then watching...

The caffeine routine for a big chunk of the University of Washington community is about to change. Starbucks is closing its University District store at 4147 University Way NE on April 5, 2026, pulling the plug on a longtime stop along The Ave that has also doubled as a high-profile union battleground. After months...

The city's utility says connecting multi-unit housing to overhead power lines poses safety risks. | 4kclips / Shutterstock. Seattle wants developers to build more housing, and has changed its zoning regulations to make that easier. But builders are running up against another obstacle, explains Greg Kim in The Seattle...

The Alexander Valley Cabernet from Kirkland is a bottle that we're always pulling for with high hopes on what it can deliver for $10. Historically, it's landed in the middle of the road for us, with some vintages showing better than others. Other vintages apparently skipped too, so it's always a bit of a mystery.

Surveillance video just released by investigators is pulling back the curtain on the moments before and after a deadly shooting outside a south Seattle hookah lounge, showing a brief fight at the entrance and the gunfire that followed. The victim was rushed to Harborview Medical Center and later pronounced dead, and...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Seattle, Washington – Heavy snow and gusty winds could make travel difficult across the Washington Cascades through Tuesday morning. According to the National Weather Service in Seattle, a Winter Weather...

Timothée Chalamet said people don't care about ballet or opera. Here's how the Seattle Opera responded to his remarks. The Seattle Opera had the perfect response to Timothée Chalamet’s recent remarks about ballet and opera. In a recent conversation with Matthew McConaughey, Chalamet said that “no one cares” about the...

SFD and SPD were called to that RV on 9th SW between SW Barton and SW Henderson a short time ago; a 911 caller asked for medical help for a woman. As soon as SFD got there, they radioed that she was an “obvious DOA.” They subsequently called for police and the Medical Examiner’s Office, which will investigate the...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Seattle, Washington – A surge of unusually warm spring weather could spread across the Pacific Northwest during St. Patrick’s Day week as a strong ridge of high pressure builds along the West Coast....

When Fred Meyer announced it was closing five underperforming" Seattle-area stores last year, it was the public-relations equivalent of kicking a bees' nest. Tempers ran especially hot in places like Seattle's Lake City and Tacoma's South End, where grocery options were already limited and many lower-income and older...