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.
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.
The State Patrol spent last week emphasizing HOV rules, with a team of troopers dispatched to enforce them across King, northern Pierce and southern Snohomish counties.
The pigtail macaque got tangled in a chain dangling from a device attached to its cage at the recently opened underground facility.
Suspects remain at large in several apparently unrelated shootings throughout the region, including the fatal shooting of a woman in Skyway Wednesday night.
TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese spacecraft has released two small exploration robots on an asteroid in a research effort that may provide clues to the origin of the solar system. The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the two Minerva-II-1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft arrived near...
