A NOAA ship crashed in Seattle’s Lake Washington Ship Canal Monday. Here’s...
Passing through the Montlake Cut, the research boat collided into the seafloor and concrete Monday morning, according to a NOAA spokesman. The estimated cost of damage remains unknown.
View ArticleFeds try again to cancel DACA protection for young man arrested in Des Moines...
Daniel Ramirez Medina was picked up in a Des Moines apartment last year and placed in deportation proceedings despite his participation in DACA. He was one of the first people in the program arrested...
View ArticleEthicist foresees choosing your baby from dozens of embryos
NEW YORK (AP) — So you want to have a baby. Would you like a dark-haired girl with a high risk of someday getting colon cancer, but a good chance of above-average music ability? Or would you prefer a...
View ArticleGoing deep to study exercise’s molecular nitty-gritty
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — About 120 scientists from around the U.S. are in Louisiana as part of a six-year, $170 million National Institutes of Health program to study the molecular nitty-gritty of...
View ArticleSPD: Man plows car toward Planned Parenthood, assaults Safeway workers
A 35-year-old man rammed a parked car, narrowly missed plowing into a Seattle Planned Parenthood clinic and "indiscriminately" assaulted employees at the Safeway next door while wearing a straw hat,...
View ArticleSeattle University President "Very, Very Embarrassed and Ashamed" of...
"Anybody who would see that who has a sense of propriety would find that offensive."by Chase BurnsHIDE YOUR KIDS! IT'S A CROTCH! Photo by Samira Shobeiri, courtesy of The Spectator Seattle University...
View ArticleU.S. to chip in for Boeing’s cleanup costs at former Seattle bomber plant
Boeing had sought to have the government pay for a share of the company's cleanup costs, which it says have reached $220 million and counting.
View ArticleMan claims to be soldier about to be deployed, steals $100K diamond from...
Fingerprints left on the glass door at Diamonds Inc. in Bellevue led police to a 26-year-old Vancouver, Wash. man who had posed as a newly-engaged soldier about to be deployed. The 5.54-carat,...
View ArticleInstead of flying first class, EPA's Pruitt should take a walk -- Murray,...
Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., join 168 colleagues in Congress calling for the resignation of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.
View ArticleMetals-forging firm near Boeing Field closing after 8 decades so real estate...
A spokesman for Jorgensen Forge said the owners see “much more opportunity in redeveloping this land.” Some of the 110 union employees at Jorgensen Forge have worked there for decades and aren’t sure...
View ArticleMayor Durkan Urges Business-Friendly Tweaks to Proposed Employers Tax
by Steven Hsieh Nate Gowdy Mayor Jenny Durkan has finally weighed in on the debate over a proposed employee hours tax to fund housing and homelessness services. In short, Durkan wants the Seattle City...
View ArticleSheriff: Shot fired over teen's backpack while walking home from school
A 13-year-old boy was nearly shot during a backpack robbery after school in Burien Wednesday afternoon, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
View ArticleWashington State's Democrats Demand Scott Pruitt's Resignation
They speak for the trees.by Rich SmithSenators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray want to boot Pruitt.DAVID RYDER / GETTY Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray today signed onto a resolution calling...
View ArticleDoreen St. Felix and Others Consider the Significance of Kendrick Lamar's...
by Sean Nelson"Who the fuck prayin' for me?" OLLIE MILLINGTON/GETTY IMAGES Most of the discussion I've seen online about Kendrick Lamar's DAMN. winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music has been...
View ArticleHighway 99 tunnel tolls could range from $1 to $2.25, depending on time of day
The state wants to keep tolls as low as possible to keep drivers from peeling off and entering snarled Seattle streets, while still raising enough money to repay $200 million in debt and fund operating...
View ArticleMarysville man dies after neighbors rescue him from mobile home fire
Two of the neighbors who rescued him, a man and woman in their 70s, were treated at the scene for smoke inhalation. No one else was injured.
View ArticleSouthern-resident killer whales’ inbreeding may devastate the population
Just two males fathered more than half the calves born since 1990 to Puget Sound’s killer-whale population, and few females are giving birth in the three pods.
View ArticleProposal could ban Mariners, opponents from chewing tobacco at Safeco Field
The King County Board of Health is set to vote Thursday on a proposal to ban smokeless tobacco at pro-sports venues countywide — Safeco Field, CenturyLink Field and KeyArena — in an answer to those who...
View ArticleWait, Did Robbie Turner Actually Have a Brush with Death in an Uber?
We're left with a bunch of unanswered questions.by Chase Burns Or is something more nefarious going on? Photo by Matt Baume It's a drag queen mystery. But here's what we know so far.Last Sunday...
View ArticleResearchers still on lookout for gray whale tangled in fishing gear in Puget...
Researchers are still looking for a gray whale tangled in fishing gear in Puget Sound waters last weekend, but if they don't find it, that might be a very good sign.
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