Traffic alert: More I-5 lane closures in Seattle as resurfacing work continues
Travel will be reduced to two lanes on northbound Interstate 5 beginning Friday at 8 p.m. and extending until Monday at 5 a.m. between the West Seattle Bridge exit and Olive Way.
View ArticleTwo Woodinville wineries moving into former Redhook brewery
DeLille Cellars and Sparkman Cellars will join Teatro ZinZanni at the site, with plans for a new restaurant there slated to be announced in the coming months.
View ArticleCan anyone make explicit art? Tacoma educator’s raps test the limits
In a time of heightened anxiety about school shootings, rap lyrics by an assistant principal in Tacoma have alarmed some parents and forced the school district into an awkward position to safeguard on...
View ArticleMicrosoft pledges $300K to study high-speed train linking Seattle-Vancouver,...
Microsoft is committing an additional $300,000 to continue studying whether a high-speed train between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., is possible. The funds are in addition to Washington state's $750,000...
View ArticleSlog AM: Starbucks Opens Up Bathroom Policy, Durkan Proposes Smaller Head...
Tacoma is getting a taste of Seattle restaurants and Seattle gentrification, Oregon man shot the deputy, Golden State Killer charged with four more murdersby Nathalie GrahamAnyone can pee in here!...
View ArticleAG Bob Ferguson rejects activists’ call for felony prosecution of Amazon over...
Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has slapped down a union-backed activist group’s call for a felony prosecution of Amazon over the company’s threat to dial back job expansion in Seattle...
View ArticleBob Ferguson Says Amazon's Construction Halt ≠ "Intimidating a Public...
by Steven Hsieh Charles Mudede Earlier this week, the labor group Working Washington sent a letter to attorney general Bob Ferguson requesting that his office criminally charge Amazon for its decision...
View ArticleFailure to supervise parolee led to Renton woman’s slaying, her father alleges
Zachary Craven is on trial in connection with the deaths of two women in 2015. The father of one of the victims has filed a tort claim against the state Department of Corrections, claiming it took no...
View ArticleTacoma Educator Faces Complaints About His Music from Parents
by Katie Herzog Logic Amen "Cancel Christmas," a song by Tacoma rapper Logic Amen, imagines the holidays from a young man's perspective. His family lives in poverty, his mom dreams of leaving his dad...
View ArticleMountain Holler Brings Alt Folk Melodies to Columbia City Tomorrow Night
by Leilani PolkMark Etherington, aka Mountain Holler Sarah Modene Mark Etherington, aka Mountain Holler, is a kind, gentle soul who looks like a viking with his wild mass of red curly hair and...
View ArticleA population that pollutes itself into extinction (and it’s not us)
“Organisms engage in actions that provide short-term benefits that ultimately can be damaging to the societies of which they are part,” says an ecologist. A statement true to microbes and humans.
View ArticleListening to elephants with earthquake-monitoring tools
Different elephant activities — walking, running, snorting, grunting — create distinct “seismic signatures” in the ground, giving the animals a variety of powerful methods for long-distance communication.
View ArticleRobert N. Hall, 96, whose inventions are everywhere, is dead
His contributions can be found in your kitchen, in the shape of your microwave oven and at almost every checkout counter — that little red blinking laser scanner that reads bar codes dangling from...
View ArticleSeattle’s Uber unionization law on hold after 9th Circuit rules against city
The years-long legal battle over Seattle's law allowing Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize will continue -- and the law will remain on hold -- after a federal appeals court ruled against the city.
View ArticleJason Rittereiser Embraces Single-Payer, Beginning A Healthcare Debate In WA-08
A health care debate begins in the WA-08.by Rich SmithHe didn't use to subscribe to the policy, but now he's all about it. Courtesy of Jason Rittereiser's Campaign Yayyyy, the Democratic candidates...
View ArticleThe Only Place You Can Buy and Watch the Great Feature Film The Young Karl...
by Charles MudedeThe Young Karl Marx Two hundred years ago, Karl Marx was born. In 1848, he co-authored the Communist Manifesto, a piece of youthful writing that bubbled with the inspiration and force...
View ArticleIllinois man suspected in 1986 slaying of Tacoma girl to be returned to...
Robert Washburn, 60, was arrested at his home in Eureka, Illinois, on Thursday, a week after police received results of a DNA test they say link him to the death of 13-year-old Jennifer Bastian.
View ArticleWashington state steps in after EPA declines to test air near Canadian smelter
State modeling showed that Teck Resources’s smelter could be sending high airborne levels of arsenic and lead over the border.
View ArticleSeattle politicians have run themselves into a corner on homelessness, but...
A private-sector developer says the answer may be: Go bigger.
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