City Council votes to approve new Seattle Police contract

Should employers follow the lead of a company in Japan and give rewards to employees for not smoking? Dori has an even more radical idea - take vacation days away from smokers to make up for all the time spent on cigarette breaks.

Tuesday afternoon, the King County Council approved the 2019-2020 budget and approved funds to restore the King County Sheriff's Office Gang Unit.

It may be short lived, but the haze you're seeing over Western Washington is smoke from the wildfires in California.

A vacation can be a different animal for a single parent traveling with their kids. But the tourism industry has finally taken notice. Slowly but surely, there are a handful of companies providing experiences tailored to single parent families.

Amazon is escaping the screams of Kshama Sawant with its new HQ2, but running headlong into the congressional district of Sawant's East Coast equivalent, Democratic-Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Amazon gets a lot of criticism for the effect it has on local communities. Much of that is deserved, but it is not the whole story. In the end, Amazon is worth it for the good of the economy. This is why.

The Seattle Fire Department announced that the 4-alarm fire at a lumber yard in north Queen Anne on Saturday was intentionally set. 

Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks announced it is laying off 350 corporate employees, mostly at its headquarters. The cuts come shortly after other leadership positions were let go among other changes.

Seattle's homeless crisis has business owners and employees in SoDo wondering what exactly the city is doing to help. At Seattle City Hall, problems only seem to get solved when its personal.

The Archdiocese of Seattle has paid nearly $7 million to settle six more claims of priests sexually abusing children. The Archdiocese of Seattle has identified 78 church workers who are credibly accused of child sexual abuse.

What should America's priorities be right now -- protecting the border from some caravan far, far over the horizon. Or battling the flames ripping California apart?

The demographic division that counts most in presidential elections has nothing to do with race, gender or income: it involves state boundaries that determine votes in the Electoral College.

In an effort to stem the “historically large numbers” of cops leaving the Seattle, Mayor Durkan tried to convince officers to stay with the department, making a mall cop joke in the process.

In Seattle, one of the most irreligious cities in the country, people seem to look to government in place of God. That mentality goes completely against our Founding Fathers' values, and it will also come back to hurt these people who put all of their faith in politicians.

The Washington State Department of Transportation made a small change in the entrance to the northbound I-5 express lanes last week, but it is going to have a big impact on how that stretch of freeway operates.