State and federal programs aim to ensure minority-owned businesses can compete for government contracts after generations of institutional discrimination. A Lynnwood man long identified as white is using DNA ethnicity estimates to claim minority status.
Newly released texts involving Mayor Jenny Durkan and City Councilmember M. Lorena González underscore how polling results helped spike the city’s head tax and offer an unvarnished look at the motivations and strategies behind the abrupt about-face.
The wolf is the 16th shot by the state in the Kettle River Range, according to a conservation organization. Wolves in the area have repeatedly attempted to prey on cattle there.
Adrienne Quinn, who has overseen King County's response to the region's homelessness crisis for the last half-decade, will step down later this fall, adding to a list of this year. King County Executive Dow Constantine, . Her final day with the county will be November 1. Quinn's resignation leaves a large hole in Constantine's administration....
Project Homeless is a new Seattle Times initiative that explores and explains the region’s complex, troubling problem of homelessness. With strong watchdog reporting and vivid storytelling, Project Homeless seeks to spotlight what is working, and what is not working, in responding to homelessness. We will also feature solutions-oriented reporting from elsewhere in the country.
New contract includes five days of paid parental leave, money for professional development and extra pay for special-education teachers.
The law, which took effect July 1, requires health care providers to disclose information about patients who had one of several "complications" listed in the law.
A 38-year-old man died at Harborview after a shooting Friday near 24th Avenue and East Yesler Way, according to Seattle Police and the King County Medical Examiner.
The wolf is the 16th shot by the state in the Kettle River Range, according to a conservation organization. Wolves in the area have repeatedly attempted to prey on cattle there.
BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) — Canadians are known as friendly folks, but these crabby brutes migrating from Canadian waters are better suited for the hockey rink. Green crabs from Nova Scotia are the same species as their cousins that already inhabit Maine waters, but are ornerier and angrier, threatening to accelerate harm to the coastal ecosystem...
