Semi filled with 40,000 pounds of chicken feathers overturns on I-5 in...
Traffic engineers did the math on the 40,000 pounds of feathers hauled by the semi: about 18 million feathers — that's almost 2,300 chickens' feathers.
View ArticleMississippi: Up to 7,000 bodies from asylum may be in field
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Some of the boxes stacked inside anthropologist Molly Zuckerman’s laboratory contain full bones — a skull, a jaw, or a leg. Others contain only plastic bags of bone fragments...
View ArticleSlog AM: A Proposed 65,000 Acre Conservation Effort In King County, I-5...
Sinkholes are following Donald Trump, Vancouver's transit system gets better, Seattle biotech journalist summits Everestby Nathalie GrahamDow Constantine wants to keep the Emerald City...
View ArticleWhat We Know About the Suspected Arson at the Youth Jail Construction Site
Broken bottles and fire.by Steven HsiehThe youth jail construction site SH Police are investigating a suspected arson at the construction site of a juvenile detention facility in Central...
View ArticleAmazon, Starbucks, Vulcan: Meet the Businesses Backing the Head Tax Referendum
$350,000.by Steven HsiehAmazon gave $25,000 to the anti-head tax campaign. DAVID RYDER/GETTY Locals who want to place a head tax referendum on an upcoming ballot have the support of some of Seattle's...
View Article#Resistence Hero Unintentionally Turns Tomi Lahren into a Martyr
A woman at a Minneapolis eatery doused the Fox News pundit with a full glass of water over the weekend.by Katie HerzogTomi Lahren Joshua Blanchard/GettyImagine the scene. You're at brunch on a fine...
View ArticleThe Loser: Dino Rossi Is Back and It’s Time to Review His Long Record of...
by Rich Smith Dino Rossi is famous for one thing: losing statewide elections. Let's count 'em. After a remarkably conservative but otherwise unremarkable tenure in the state legislature, Rossi ran for...
View ArticleIs the Stacey Abrams Strategy the Model for Democratic Victory?
Blabbermouth Podcast Episode 150: Stacey Abrams, Amy McGrath, and Philip Roth—plus listener advice on talking to Trump supporters.by The StrangerEpisode 150 talks about the historic Stacey Abrams...
View ArticleThe Weird Shit That Has Spilled On Seattle Highways
Nothing disrupts a morning commute like an overturned semi truck.by Nathalie Grahamwho did this Jorge Villalba / Getty Images Usually, traffic in Seattle is pretty bad. Congestion is expected at...
View ArticleConnelly: Seattle parks get high marks, but a gap downtown
Seattle is in 11th place in the annual ParkScore index ranking park systems in America's 100 largest cities, the Trust for Public Lands disclosed Wednesday.
View ArticleForecasters predict Central Pacific could see 6 hurricanes
HONOLULU (AP) — The Central Pacific could see anywhere from three to six hurricanes over the next six months, forecasters predicted Wednesday. That would be an increase over the two named storms last...
View Article14 vehicles destroyed in central Washington brush fire
The fire threatened multiple homes and burned up to the U.S. Army's Yakima Training Center but no structures were lost.
View ArticleIt’s not just the climate; all that extra CO2 also might change our food
Carbon dioxide helps plants grow. But a new study — co-authored by a UW professor — shows that rice grown in higher levels of carbon dioxide has lower amounts of several important nutrients.
View ArticleLook up to catch stellar views of the International Space Station this week
Decent weather and the position of the sun mean that folks across Washington should be able to see the massive spacecraft.
View ArticleOfficials identify worker who fell to his death at Sound Transit’s Bellevue...
Walter R. Burrow, 63, was a longtime employee at Kiewit, the company building the elevated light rail on the Eastside.
View ArticleUW Medical Center patient diagnosed with Legionnaires disease while receiving...
Last year, at least two patients — including a woman who died — contracted the severe type of pneumonia that spreads through contaminated water at the hospital.
View ArticleMauled in Montana woods, grizzly-bear researcher walks 2 miles with fractured...
Less than two weeks ago, Amber Kornak posted about her new job on Facebook. It was her dream: She would be a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seasonal field assistant working with the small but...
View Article‘Eerie’ blue flames burn in cracks caused by Hawaii volcano
"It's very dramatic. It's very eerie," said Jim Kauahikaua, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist, of the blue flames. He said it was just the second time he's seen blue flames during an eruption.
View ArticleHawaii volcano produces methane and ‘eerie’ blue flames
HONOLULU (AP) — Scientists in Hawaii have captured rare images of blue flames burning from cracks in the pavement as Kilauea volcano gushes fountains of lava in the background, offering a look at a new...
View ArticleSpace station accepts special delivery from Virginia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station accepted delivery Thursday of more than 7,000 pounds of supplies from Virginia. A commercial cargo ship arrived at the orbiting lab three...
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