May 16, 2024, 6:56pm Northwest
A suburban Seattle police officer ignored his training and unnecessarily resorted to deadly force when he shot and killed a man outside a convenience store in 2019, prosecutors said as the officer’s murder trial opened Thursday. Read story
May 16, 2024, 5:52pm Northwest
More than 16,000 people were reported to be experiencing homelessness on a given day in King County in the 2024 Point-in-Time Count. Read story
May 16, 2024, 4:33pm Latest News
A typo in the triple murder indictment of an Idaho man accused of killing his wife and his girlfriend’s two children doesn’t mean that he should be acquitted of one of the deaths, a judge said Thursday. Read story
May 16, 2024, 4:27pm Northwest
An Oregon man who met two children on Snapchat, sexually abused them while traveling through three states and finally abandoned them at a park has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars, prosecutors said Thursday. Read story
May 16, 2024, 9:38am Business Free
Backers of an initiative to halt the state’s push to end natural gas use in homes and other buildings began gathering signatures Wednesday after a Thurston County judge settled a dispute on how the measure would be described on ballots. Read story
May 16, 2024, 7:43am Health
About two dozen health care workers crowded around tables on a recent Thursday to troubleshoot the many ways things could go south in their new workplace. Read story
May 16, 2024, 7:40am Northwest
Several University of Washington buildings were tagged with pro-Palestinian messages overnight into Wednesday, which an administrator referred to as a “major escalation” in an internal email obtained by The Daily newspaper. Nearly all major buildings were spray painted, some with “antisemitic slogans,” the email said. Read story
May 16, 2024, 6:02am Latest News Free
Olympic marmots can spend up to eight months a year hibernating, emerging when the weather warms to forage for food, fatten up, and otherwise go about their business. Read story
May 15, 2024, 7:11pm Latest News
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, has filed a package of nine bills to reverse parts of a new agreement that he sees as the de facto breaching of the lower Snake River dams and to remind the White House who has authority over the dams. Read story
May 15, 2024, 7:08pm Northwest
University of Washington President Ana Mari Cauce called for a cease-fire in the war in Gaza in a public statement Wednesday while also criticizing the encampment protest at the school, saying the language used by some has been “vile and antisemitic.” Read story
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