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Emergency team members pause for a moment as they search for people in a destroyed building in Adana, Turkey, on Monday. A powerful quake knocked down multiple buildings in southeast Turkey and Syria. (Khalil Hamra / AP)
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Local News

Seattle-area organizations seek to aid Syria, Turkey after earthquake

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake affected southeast Turkey and northern Syria, killing over 3,400 people and destroying homes and other vital infrastructure.

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The east side of the Washington State Capitol Building on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
Times Watchdog

WA schools still restrain, isolate students often despite state laws, report says

Ally Jackson at home in her backyard, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023 is planning to list her Lynnwood house for sale and try to buy a new one in Bothell soon.
Real Estate

Are bidding wars back in Seattle’s housing market?

Families of students at seven Bellevue elementary schools protest outside the Bellevue School District entrance, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023 after proposed plans to consolidate three of the seven schools. The families say the district hasn’t been transparent in its decision making.
Eastside

Bellevue families rally against proposed plan to consolidate schools

King County Executive Dow Constantine is photographed during a media tour of the Salmonberry Lofts, a new Health through Housing building in Pioneer Square that King County purchased to create homeless housing, on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 in Seattle. , King County Director of Human Service Leo Flor and executive director of Chief Seattle Club Derrick Belgrade were present.
Local News

Seattle, King County will no longer require COVID vaccinations for employees

Times Watchdog

FILE — Raz Simone addresses the mayor and police chief during the first meeting intended to forge a path forward for the police and the community. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best made good on their promise to meet with community and protest leaders to forge a path forward. Wednesday marked the fifth day of protest in Seattle. Photographed Wednesday, June 3, 2020 214148

Raz Simone to stand trial with some claims dismissed, judge rules

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Politics

The east side of the Washington State Capitol Building on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

WA schools still restrain, isolate students often despite state laws, report says

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Project Homeless

Tara Kankesh, right, serves a freshly baked ginger molasses cookie onto a plate her mentor, Lindsey Greenlee, holds out on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. The two have been matched through Big Sister, Little Sister since December 2019.

Inspired to help, Seattle Times readers donate millions to Fund for Those in Need

About Project Homeless

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.

Transportation

Lanes reopen in South Lake Union after car fire

Mercer Street and Fairview Avenue North in Seattle has reopened after a car fire blocked several lanes, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation.

Photography

Seattle area priests of the area’s many Ethiopian Orthodox Churches, as well as other church officials are joined with demonstrators at Westlake Park to protest the Ethiopian government, accusing it of constant attacks and trying to split the church by not recognizing only Patriarch Abuna Mathias as its head of leadership, or synod, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, in downtown Seattle. Rain didn’t stop large numbers of congregants of the area’s many Ethiopian Orthodox Churches from showing up to listen to speakers, and to pray, chant and sing before marching to the Space Needle.
Local News

Seattle congregants protest treatment of Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Ethiopia WATCH

Ronan Mooney, right, and other Seattle Sounders FC fans react in the second half of the game while watching their team play Al Ahly of Eygpt in the FIFA World Cup held in Tangier, Morocco from a large screen at the Seattle Center Armory on Saturday, February 4, 2023. The Sounders lost 1 – 0 in their first appearance at the World Cup. “We did well to get here in the first place,” says Mooney.
Local News

Sounders fans bring their Club World Cup hopes to Seattle Center

Washington’s Elle Ladine pulls down the offensive board in the first quarter. 222944
Husky Basketball

Photos: UW women’s basketball vs. Cal  VIEW

Washington center Braxton Meah (34) dunks against UCLA guard Jaime Jaquez Jr., left, and guard Amari Bailey during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Los Angeles, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Husky Basketball

Photos: UW men’s basketball vs. UCLA VIEW

Education

The east side of the Washington State Capitol Building on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

WA schools still restrain, isolate students often despite state laws, report says

Education Lab

Seattle may need to close schools, lay off staff

Technology issues cause late start, confusion at Edmonds schools

About Education Lab

Education Lab is a Seattle Times project that spotlights promising approaches to some of the most persistent challenges in public education.

Health

St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale on November 15, 2022. St. Michael’s services Kitsap and Olympic Peninsula communities.

Your health care may be limited by Catholic directives. Now WA lawmakers are stepping in VIEW

Times Watchdog

A still from a video shows former Tukwila police officer Nick Hogan used an unsanctioned takedown against Alvin Walker in 2011, breaking Walker’s elbow. Hogan was fired after multiple investigations found he violated department policy, and later pleaded guilty to violating a suspect’s civil rights, but he retained his state certification.

Fired, but still a cop: How Washington state’s decertification process leaves troubled officers with their guns

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A photograph of stepfather Sean Rowe and mother Carmen Rowe is taken in downtown Seattle Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Their son Andrew Westling, 19, died while in the Nisqually Jail earlier this year. They described Westling as friendly and that he loved music, horses and fishing.
Times Watchdog

Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail

Monday, October 31, 2016. Hundreds of untested Rape Kits fill a freezer isle in the Seattle Police Departments evidence room (kits kept at 5 degrees).
Crime

Rape-kit backlog grows at state crime lab — despite new money WATCH

Tom Wales, assistant U.S. Attorney and president of the gun-control group Washington CeaseFire, was the apparent victim of an execution-style slaying Thursday night in his Queen Anne home. The gunman shot Wales through a basement window, hitting the prosecutor in the neck and side. Thomas Wales
Crime

Unsolved slaying of Seattle prosecutor 16 years ago today has ‘hallmarks of a hit’

Special Report

‘My God, that’s Kimberly!’: Scientist solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

Data

Seniors get behind WA bill to keep the state from taxing their meals

The state Department of Revenue and several of Washington's independent living homes for seniors are engaged in an ongoing battle over the taxing of meals.

Law & Justice

A portrait of Andrea Churna and her child Michael: Churna who was a Redmond mother of a 7-year-old at the time was shot and killed by law enforcement officers after calling dispatchers for help in Sept. 2020. 219048

Redmond City Council approves $7.5M settlement to family of woman killed by police in 2020

Shielded by the Law

Nearly impossible to charge police for wrongful killings in Washington

Seattle Sketcher

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing

Check out eye-popping exotics every week at Redmond Town Center car show

Seattle’s Uptown got a new name, but a historic landmark shines on

The return of ‘Alki Fridays’ coed volleyball brings energy back to the beach

Eastside

Families of students at seven Bellevue elementary schools protest outside the Bellevue School District entrance, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023 after proposed plans to consolidate three of the seven schools. The families say the district hasn’t been transparent in its decision making.

Bellevue families rally against proposed plan to consolidate schools

Environment

Lake Palcacocha in Huaraz, Peru, in May 2022. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Angela Ponce.

As glaciers melt, sudden flood risks threaten 15 million people, study finds

Weather

See the latest weather news and forecasts

Science

People react as they sit on the wreckage of collapsed buildings, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by powerful earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) HAS126 HAS126

Race to find survivors as quake aid pours into Turkey, Syria VIEW

Earthquakes

Get ready to rumble: A guide to quake preparedness

Northwest Wanderings

The astronaut replica suit Ted Huetter of the Museum of Flight gets into is a special-commission for around $10,000 but is not suitable for use in space. It’s lightweight but warm. from the Museum of Flight, Make-A-Wish people, virtual reality headsets at the Infinite experience. Saturday July 23, 2022 221069

A spacesuit, a dream and virtual reality meet at ‘The Infinite’ in Tacoma VIEW

Paul Lundy cleans the surface of each key on Muriel Erickson’s 1968 Hermes in for its annual tuneup. Paul Lundy at his Bremerton Office Machine Co. typewriter repair. Thursday January 13, 2022

The owner of Bremerton Office Machine Company finds focus and fulfillment among timeworn typewriters — and their fans VIEW

Eleventh-grader Naazneen Vemmerath Kulangara (CQ) asks NASA astronaut Megan McArthur a question from the Museum of Flight. McArthur is aboard the International Space Station during a video hookup Saturday. Ref to more photos online Northwest Wanderings Saturday October 16, 2021 218537

Seattle students virtually Zoom into space for a chat with astronaut Megan McArthur

Professional drummer Chris Anderson is into the beat he’s providing at First Avenue and Pike Street across from the Pike Place Market, busking for five hours. Northwest Wanderings Friday July 16, 2021 217681

Busker brings A-list drumming pedigree to Pike Place Market WATCH