The campaign mailers recently sent out in at least two Washington's state legislative districts look like a pitch to Democratic voters to elect a progressive candidate. But they come from a conservative political action committee, and ask voters to write-in alternative candidates in close races that will help determine the margins of power in Olympia.
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.
Traffic signals are now working again at Denny Way and Stewart Street, the Seattle Department of Transportation reported on Twitter. The issue caused delays for traffic heading both eastbound and westbound during the afternoon commute. Crews are working on repairing the signals, said SDOT spokesperson Mafara Hobson. The cause of the broken lights has not...
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — The Idaho State Board of Education has approved a plan to fund the state's public colleges and universities based on the number of graduates they produce. The board on Thursday approved the plan, which board spokesman Mike Keckler said will be phased in over three years, with $16 million in new...
Police are investigating assaults that happened near the University of Washington and in a Snohomish County park.
After surviving a forest fire these untouched spots of green are the seeds to a new life and ecosystem’s regeneration.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana professor is in heady company, honored by having one of three newly identified species of snakes from the Galapagos Islands named after him. "They named one after Charles Darwin — that's a no-brainer — and one after the Greek god of fire, and one after me, of all people,"...
