After recovering from record-setting flooding, many in King County are wondering why December’s flooding has been more ...

Rates for Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers went up Jan. 1, with about a 12% hike for electric customers and 7% increase for natural gas customers. The state Utilities and Transportation Commission ...

Those are just a few of the changes to state law taking effect in Washington on New Year’s Day. Some bills passed in 2025 became law earlier in the year, while others will take years to go into effect ...

“I think the computers have complicated lives very greatly. The whole, you know, age of computer, has made it where nobody knows exactly what’s going on.” —Donald Trump, Dec. 29, 2016 The night of ...

In the days following September 11, Asad Haider’s identity was of great concern. A first-generation Pakistani-American, he recalls being harassed and detained at the airport due to his ethnicity.

Last November, photographer Glen Rudolph finally sold the Tangletown bungalow he had purchased in 1977 for $38,000. It seemed to Rudolph that the neighborhood, named after the “tangle” of angled ...

A son-in-law to Chief Seattle, William DeShaw is one of the most mysterious characters in Puget Sound history. Two years after WWII, at the Kitsap County Fair, there was a wooden pillar on display ...

Roughly six days a week, recently arrested defendants in the King County jail in downtown Seattle stand before judges to be arraigned and, potentially, held in jail on money bail — often with little ...

Dale Alberda points out the window of NBBJ, the architecture firm where he serves as design principal. One story down in the bright-gray South Lake Union alleyway, there they are. They’re nice, leafy ...

James Encinas felt that he was hired as a minority “token” when he joined Harborview Medical Center as a peer support specialist for their Housing And Recovery Through Peer Services program, which ...

Civic scandals used to mean something in Seattle. Gunslinger Wyatt Earp paid off City Hall to operate his 1890s gambling joint here. In the 1950s, bar owners were leaving lunch bags of money on their ...