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Potholes on East Marginal Way lead to flat tires and vehicle damage

Car after car struck a pair of potholes in Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood this weekend, popping tires and damaging wheel rims.

11 years ago

Video: Seattle police officer buys shoes for homeless woman in crisis

A Seattle police officer bought a barefoot woman in crisis a pair of shoes while responding to a call in Lake City.

11 years ago

Number of homeless in Seattle, King County jumps 19 percent

More than 1,000 volunteers combed King County to count the number of homeless men, women, and children on the streets. They hope this information will help leaders in Seattle and beyond tackle a growing problem.

11 years ago

Number of homeless in Seattle, King County jumps 19 percent

More than 1,000 volunteers combed King County to count the number of homeless men, women, and children on the streets. They hope this information will help leaders in Seattle and beyond tackle a growing problem.

11 years ago

Number of homeless in Seattle, King County jumps 19 percent

More than 1,000 volunteers combed King County to count the number of homeless men, women, and children on the streets. They hope this information will help leaders in Seattle and beyond tackle a growing problem.

11 years ago

Report: Defective parts on thousands of Boeing planes need repairs

The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to announce mandatory inspections and the potential mandatory replacement of defective parts on nearly 1,400 Boeing 737s on Monday.

11 years ago

Seattle City Council rejects 12-week paid parental leave

Seattle city employees will have to settle for four weeks of parental leave rather than a proposed 12 weeks.

11 years ago

The last straw: Orcas Island residents bypass Internet providers

Residents of Orcas Island were growing increasingly frustrated with slow Internet connection speeds and outages that would sometimes last a for days.

11 years ago

Controversy over McKinley/Denali is similar to Mount Rainier’s own story

The name of Alaska's Mount McKinley is returning to its original title, Denali. The battle for the name is strikingly similar to that of Mount Rainier.

11 years ago

Check out ‘the biggest snake ever known to exist’

Seattle's Burke Museum puts the largest snake ever to have slithered the earth on display.

11 years ago

Missing Orting woman’s body found in woods

The body of a missing Orting woman last seen June 6 in Spanaway has been found in the woods near Kapowsin.

11 years ago

Amidst skyrocketing rents, some Seattle landlords are keeping it real

As rents rise in Seattle, there are still real estate unicorns refusing to gouge their tenants, and keeping their rents affordable despite their neighbors.

12 years ago

University District needle, meth pipe distributor defends drugs as legitimate choice

Everyone has an image of the kind of people who use needle exchange programs: People who are sick. Who've hit bottom. Who are perhaps ashamed of how desperate they've become.

12 years ago

Seattle’s chief of police demotes 4 top cops

Seattle's chief of police has demoted all four of her assistant chiefs to make way for new leadership in the department.

12 years ago

State senator proposes oil pipeline across Washington

It you don't like the idea of running oil through our state on trains, what would you think about building a pipeline instead?

12 years ago

Downtown Seattle Westin Hotel evacuated for fire

At least two floors of Seattle's Westin Hotel on Fifth Avenue were evacuated Wednesday afternoon for a fire on the 11th floor.

12 years ago

Woman’s body discovered in vacant Bellevue apartment building

Police say maintenance workers discovered a woman's body in an empty apartment of a vacant building, Saturday in Bellevue.

12 years ago

Seattle getting its first marijuana vending machine

The first marijuana vending machine is coming to Seattle. The ZaZZZ, as it's called, isn't your average chips and candy dispenser.

12 years ago

Seattle Kitchen’s guide to Super Bowl Feast Mode

For the first Seahawks Super Bowl win, it might have been acceptable to throw together some chips and dip and call it a meal, but now the team is taking it to the next level and the 12s are going to have to step up and get into Feast Mode.

12 years ago

SDOT, Seattle police employing new tactics to avoid port backups

City of Seattle and Port of Seattle officials say they'll try new tactics to reduce the traffic backups that have caused two days of slowdowns and safety hazards as cargo trucks try to reach a port terminal.