Washington

Seattle will test a program that has already helped more than 2,700 young people across the state who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

The Pacific Northwest will need a massive buildout of new energy infrastructure over the next six years to meet rising electricity demand, according to a draft regional power plan released Thursday.

On Wednesday, Olympic National Park released a statement on social media that park officials were hoping to locate a woman who was seen with a bat in her hair near Staircase Bridge on Aug. 9. The bat later tested positive for rabies. On Thursday, public affairs specialist Molly Pittman emailed The News Tribune more information about what happened that day and all that park officials know about ...

Homes in Steilacoom were dark Thursday, and many people were at the beach as the Pierce County town entered its first day of a two-day power outage. From 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, no one in town will have access to electrical power unless they’ve acquired a generator. It’s part of a planned outage, so workers can do proactive maintenance on the local substation, which supplies 100% ...

The University of Washington canceled a planned speech by Hasan Piker, saying the popular and controversial far-left streamer was disinvited from a speaker series after questions about the internal process for selecting speakers. It was determined that the process for organizing this event did not meet the necessary level of rigor for University-hosted events in the Speaker Series," the ...

Mayor Katie Wilson and City Council members are pushing to make preschool and childcare available to all Seattleites, and an upcoming study could map out how they can make that vision a reality. The Department of Education and Early Learning will launch a study in 2027 to assess how the city can develop universal preschool and childcare programs to support families facing financial pressures ...

Charges were dismissed Thursday against a Seattle man accused of killing two homeless people with an ax after he was found not mentally competent to stand trial. In a brief hearing Thursday, King County Superior Court Judge Nelson Lee found the accused man Liam Kryger, now 27, not competent enough to stand trial for the two separate killings in February 2024, based on a medical evaluation. ...

Answers about the lengthy delay in informing the public during the police response to the Bite of Seattle shooting scene were elusive Tuesday, with promises of a full review into the communication breakdown come fall.

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on Tuesday launched a campaign ad against her Republican challenger, John Braun, accusing the state senator of seeking to limit abortion access nationwide.