Gov. Inslee signs supplemental budget boosting K-12 spending
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A supplemental state budget that pays for the final piece of a long-running court case on basic education funding was signed into law Tuesday by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. The...
View ArticleApple unveils new iPad to catch Google in the classroom
Apple, Google and Microsoft are each aiming to accustom schoolchildren to their operating systems to win the next generation as lifelong customers.
View ArticleInslee signs controversial union bill
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has sided with public-sector unions in a showdown with Republicans and anti-labor groups by approving a controversial bill that will alter the...
View ArticleConnelly: AG Ferguson to Trump -- See you in court over U.S. Census
Attorney General Bob Ferguson goes back to federal court, joining other states suing the Trump administration over its decision to include a question about citizenship status in America's 2020 U.S....
View ArticleInslee signs bill restricting sale of some firefighting foam
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a bill that makes Washington state the first to restrict the sale of firefighting foam containing certain chemicals of concern. The legislation...
View ArticleConnelly: Senate Majority Leader Sharon Nelson won't seek re-election
State Senate Majority Leader Sharon Nelson, D-Vashon Island, will retire from Legislature, assume new full time duties as wife, mother, grandmother and daughter.
View ArticleMariners game ticket gets you a free light-rail ride to and from Safeco Field
The free light-rail rides aim to reduce traffic congestion and boost game attendance.
View ArticleColorado’s genetically pure bison herd gains lab-born calf
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A bison calf has been born at Colorado State University using a process that manually combines an egg and sperm in a laboratory. The Coloradoan reported Monday that the...
View ArticlePhoto captures Bellevue in blue
The Bellevue skyline, photographed from the Columbia Tower in Seattle earlier this month, is nestled between the Cascade mountains in the background and Lake Washington in the foreground.
View ArticleSeattle’s Highway 99 tunnel could open to traffic in October
The road decks are finished, so final utility work and safety tests remain until the Highway 99 tunnel opens this fall.
View ArticleThe Well-Done & Rare Edition of The Stranger's Food and Drink Guide 2018...
by Leilani Polk Seattle's food scene is incredible. According to a recent Seattle Times report, in the first quarter of 2017, our city had 2,696 actively operating establishments, from restaurants to...
View ArticleFamily famed for protest photo die when SUV goes off cliff
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A family that gained attention for an emotional photograph of an African-American boy hugging a white police officer at a 2014 protest was killed when their SUV plunged off a...
View ArticlePolice: 5-year-old boy rescued after Amber Alert
The Washington State Patrol has issued an Amber Alert for a 5-year-old boy who was taken by his father earlier Wednesday in Lake Forest Park.
View ArticleBig Republican super PAC moves in to fight for Washington’s 8th Congressional...
The Congressional Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, announced Wednesday it was opening a field office in Washington's 8th District, as well as in Maine, North...
View ArticleYou Need to Make $148,000 to Be Rich in Seattle, and Soon Even That May Not...
by Charles Mudede Art Wager/gettyimages.com The Pew Research Center sees three class forms in the US: upper-income, middle-income, and lower-income. The first group it calls "rich," and the last...
View ArticleStudy: Swingers Have Better Sex
by Katie Herzog Getty Images Social deviant and non-monogamy cheerleader Dan Savage is popping champagne and throwing glitter around the office after the release of a new study that shows he's been...
View ArticleActivists Urge City Not to Settle Police Officers' Defamation Claim Against...
by Steven HsiehNikkita Oliver (front) spoke in support of Kshama Sawant (second from left) SH The two Seattle police officers who fatally shot Che Taylor and later sued City Council Member Kshama...
View ArticleSavage Love Letter of the Day: Should I Move to the Suburbs with a Nerd?
by Dan Savage30-year-old, bisexual female here. I recently moved in with my boyfriend of a year+, let's call him "James." James is sweet as can be, thoughtful, funny, and easy to be with. We were...
View ArticleBlabbermouth Podcast: Gasping at Our Facebook Data and Digging the Roseanne...
by The StrangerEpisode 142 considers flat-out repealing the Second Amendment, picks through Rich and Eli's Facebook data, and talks about Roseanne and Wild, Wild Country Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty...
View ArticleJudge rejects Seattle’s first-come, first-served rental law
Choosing a tenant “is a fundamental attribute of property ownership,” King County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Parisien said in a written ruling.
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