Times Watchdog is a series of investigative reports promoting good government, bringing questionable practices to light and holding authorities and the powerful accountable to the public.
A complex patchwork of policing jurisdictions on Washington's Yakama reservation leaves officers and residents at odds over who is responsible for investigating crimes. A federal...
Voters passed I-940 to hold police more accountable. The probe into Manuel Ellis' death at the hands of Tacoma police shows the law's weaknesses.
Washington state officials have trained workers who are now finally ready to make phone calls for contact tracing for coronavirus — but those who are...
A divide in Snohomish, a city of 10,000 near the Cascade foothills, had come to light early last week as citizens armed with semi-automatic weapons...
After ordering $37 million of Chinese-made masks to protect against the coronavirus, state officials cancelled more than half the orders and stopped placing new ones...
Rumors that antifa activists were on their way to cause mayhem drew hundreds of self-declared protectors, many of them armed and some associated with far-right...
The monumental pilfering of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Washington unemployment benefits was abetted by a once-a-generation flood of jobless claims, but the...
State officials ordered $227.5 million in coronavirus supplies from a Chinese manufacturer, but some shipments are weeks behind schedule and others are sitting in a...
The story of how Dominic Gates and a team of other Seattle Times reporters led the world with their coverage of the 737 MAX crashes,...
Some resident construction projects defied Gov. Jay Inslee's statewide lockdown order, exposing construction workers to COVID-19. The state acknowledges it did not issue any enforcement...
