#Ancient? Crisscrossed lines called world’s oldest drawing
NEW YORK (AP) — It looks a bit like a hashtag, but it’s 73,000 years old. And scientists say this tiny sketch found in a South African cave is the oldest known drawing. It’s not the earliest deliberate...
View ArticleNOAA lays plan to capture ailing orca J50, announces public meetings
The plan has been coming together for months as the agency announced public meetings, with just a few days' notice. It's been decades since the capture era here, when members from the same orca family...
View ArticleLEAD program, aimed at helping instead of punishing addicts, to expand to Burien
The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD) program began in Belltown in 2011 and has since expanded to other parts of Seattle. Burien is now set to become the second city in King County to offer...
View ArticleFatal Cougar Attack in Mt. Hood National Forest May Be Oregon's First
by Alex Zielinski David Gn Photography / Getty ImagesThe Clackamas County Sheriff's Office believes a hiker died in the Mt. Hood National Forest after being attacked by a cougar. If verified by a DNA...
View ArticleTo stay or go? Millions in hurricane’s path must decide
Millions of people in the path of Hurricane Florence are frantically preparing for a monster storm that’s anticipated to make landfall sometime early Saturday morning. Residents in states from Virginia...
View ArticleWe Still Have Many Climate Change Hammerings to Go Before the Bulk of White...
by Charles Mudede Karl Spencer/gettyimages.com Last night, Rachel Maddow dropped what should be a bomb on mainstream media: Trump diverted almost $10 million from FEMA, an organization whose importance...
View ArticleInbox Jukebox Track of the Day: The David Axelrod-esque "One Day It All Ends"...
The Seattle-San Antonio duo hERON conjure the melancholy majesty of orchestral-funk deity David Axelrod on "One Day It All Ends."by Dave SegalYou should listen to hERON from here on out. Furnace...
View ArticleBob Montgomery, 96, dies; Seattle area’s last typewriter repairman had the...
Bob Montgomery was 7 or 8 when he began learning to repair the machines in his father’s Seattle shop. He spent some 85 years working on IBM Selectrics and Smith-Coronas, mostly from his Bremerton shop.
View ArticleFlorence and the coastal dilemma: How long will it hover?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oddly, the closer Hurricane Florence gets to land the murkier its future gets. Usually when a storm approaches the coast, forecasters can tell with ever increasing accuracy where it...
View ArticleCORRECTS: More than 10M people under storm watches and warnings in 3 states...
MIAMI (AP) — CORRECTS: More than 10M people under storm watches and warnings in 3 states (Corrects to include tropical storm watches) (Corrects APNewsAlert to include tropical storm watches)
View ArticleMore than 10M people under hurricane warnings, watches in Carolinas,...
MIAMI (AP) — More than 10M people under hurricane warnings, watches in Carolinas, Virginia, National Weather Service says.
View ArticleTelevangelist Warlock Pat Robertson Casts Spell on Hurricane Florence
by Wm. Steven HumphreyPat Robertson: "Bubble, bubble! Toil and trouble!" Courtesy YouTube As you know, the Southeastern United States is bracing itself for Hurricane Florence, a category 4 storm that...
View ArticleWashington state to kill more wolves in Ferry County
The state plans to start killing wolves again in the same area where the animals were killed in 2016 and earlier this year.
View ArticleSubtropical Storm Joyce forms in the north Atlantic; expected to strengthen...
MIAMI (AP) — Subtropical Storm Joyce forms in the north Atlantic; expected to strengthen but not currently a threat to land.
View ArticleTacoma school district may sue teachers union after weeklong contract stalemate
Pleas from Gov. Jay Inslee failed to end the strike that's lasted almost a week. Taking legal action against the teachers union is "certainly an option that’s under consideration," said Dan Voelpel, a...
View ArticleWashington state’s health-care exchange premiums could increase nearly 14...
The increase for the 207,000 customers in the Washington Health Benefit Exchange is about 10 percent less than what the exchange approved for 2018.
View ArticleEverett Police seek public help identifying person of interest in shooting...
Everett Police have released video of a person they believe shot and killed a man in July.
View ArticleOur Arts Critics' Picks for the Capitol Hill Art Walk
A Light Maze, A Tribute to Wrestling, and More Events on September 13by Stranger Things To Do StaffEvery second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers...
View ArticleThe Top 9 Things To See at the September 2018 Capitol Hill Art Walk
by Stranger Things To Do StaffNate Gowdy's photographs capture protestors and politicians. Nate Gowdy Every second Thursday, rain or shine, the streets of Capitol Hill are filled with tipsy art lovers...
View ArticleBloodworks Northwest donates to states in path of Hurricane Florence
Bloodworks Northwest has been asked to send 34 units of blood to states preparing for Hurricane Florence, at a time when the blood bank is already strapped.
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