How mailboxes will help remember neighborhood life before the deadly Oso...
The Oso landslide on March 22, 2014 — the deadliest in American history — wiped out a community's landmark mailboxes, along with many of the people they belonged to.
View Article‘It’s not just a scar in the environment’: Committee seeking sculptor to...
“Take a left at the mailboxes,” Katie Pszonka Ruthven would say to friends coming over to her house on Steelhead Drive in Snohomish County. Their road didn’t have a street sign, but the cluster of...
View ArticleMan, 22, fatally stabbed near Alki Beach identified
Police have said the victim was likely targeted. There have been no updates on the homicide investigation.
View ArticleSPU grads celebrate with a traditional Ivy Cutting
More than 600 graduating seniors at Seattle Pacific University filled Tiffany Loop on campus for the annual event.
View ArticleBicyclists, pedestrians to be rerouted as stretch of Elliott Bay Trail in...
Bicyclists and pedestrians will be detoured from the closed section of the trail for about a year between West Galer Street and Centennial Park.
View ArticleHalf-mile of Elliott Bay Trail in Seattle closing for improvements
Bicyclists and pedestrians will be detoured from the closed section of the trail for about a year between West Galer Street and Centennial Park.
View ArticleScientists to resume testing for fecal bacteria off Kenai
KENAI, Alaska (AP) — Scientists will resume testing the waters off Kenai beaches to see if efforts aimed at reducing fecal bacteria have been working. The Peninsula Clarion reports fecal coliform and...
View ArticleThe Summer 2018 Edition of The Stranger's Art + Performance Quarterly Is Out...
by The StrangerThe cover features 8 Bit Flowers by Jennifer Zwick, on display at Winston Wachter June 26-August 22 Your quarterly guide to everything of cultural import in Seattle, the summer edition...
View Article‘Heartbreaking’: Pramila Jayapal meets the 174 asylum-seeking women, many...
Washington state officials Saturday continued their condemnation of the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents at the southwest border. Attorney General Bob Ferguson left...
View ArticleRep. Jayapal meets 174 asylum-seeking women, many separated from children, at...
Washington state officials Saturday continued their condemnation of the Trump administration policy of separating children from their parents at the southwest border. Attorney General Bob Ferguson left...
View ArticleRep. Jayapal Met With Asylum Seekers Held at SeaTac Prison
What's heartbreaking is they were not given any chance to say goodbye to their children to explain what was happening.by Steven HsiehRep. Pramila Jaypal outside the SeaTac prison where the Trump...
View ArticleSpokane picked by HUD for initiative aimed at helping the poor off federal aid
The announcement follows Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s proposal to raise rents for millions of Americans who live in public housing as a path to self-sufficiency by pushing more...
View ArticleHolocaust survivor Gena Turgel, who consoled Anne Frank, dies
After World War II, she married one of Bergen-Belsen’s British liberators, Norman Turgel, earning the nickname “The Bride of Belsen.”
View ArticleBlood test could predict pregnancy due date, potential for preterm birth
The test estimated due dates within two weeks in nearly half the cases, making it as accurate as the current, more expensive method, ultrasound, and more accurate than guesses based on a woman’s last...
View ArticleIn Trump White House, science is unwelcome and so is advice
The lack of traditional scientific advisory leadership in the White House is one example of a significant change in the Trump administration: the marginalization of science in shaping U.S. policy.
View Article‘Devastating loss’ as Aberdeen fire destroys historic Armory
A fire Saturday tore through the historic Armory building in Aberdeen, housing the city’s museum and several social-services facilities.
View ArticleCanada acquires key pipeline link to Washington refineries
This is a piece of the much larger acquisition of the Trans Mountain Pipeline, announced last month. An option to more than double the capacity of the small Washington spur line would create the...
View Article‘Character is not static’: a soon-to-be lawyer turns rough past into bright...
“All I needed was someone to give me a seed of hope,” says Tarra Simmons, who has overcome a history of crime and substance abuse. Since serving prison time, she has excelled in law school, passed the...
View ArticleThey survived a school shooting as freshmen. Four years later, a diploma...
Marysville-Pilchuck seniors graduate this week, the final student witnesses to a shooting in their school’s cafeteria. They went through high school as members of a tragic and ever-growing American...
View ArticleWith push for referendum, debate over Seattle head tax hits the streets
Earlier this year, the big-business tax of $275 per employee, per year took shape inside City Hall, as City Council members sought money for low-income housing and homeless services. This summer,...
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