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Seattle police locate missing woman without her wheelchair

Seattle police are searching for a 68-year-old woman after her powered wheelchair was found abandoned in an alley.

11 years ago

Six things to do for a uniquely Seattle St. Patrick’s Day

Six Irish things to do in Seattle to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

11 years ago

Ride the Ducks admits to safety violations, pays fine to state

Seattle's Ride the Ducks tour company has admitted to hundreds of safety violations, months after a fatal accident on the Aurora Bridge.

11 years ago

Seattle’s parks dept. grappling with encroachment ‘spread all over’

Seattle city officials have discussed how difficult it is to give an exact number of private properties encroaching on city park property.

11 years ago

Is Obama’s Supreme Court nominee the lesser of three evils?

Former Attorney General Rob McKenna joined Seattle's Morning News to discuss the recent nomination and how Garland would stack up against a Clinton or Trump nominee.

11 years ago

Gubernatorial challenger says he doesn’t have a presidential candidate

Western Washington's roadways are bogged down because the state's department of transportation doesn't have its priorities straight, Gov. Jay Inslee's challenger says.

11 years ago

After tunnel project sinkhole, state worried about a repeat

State officials are concerned another sinkhole will develop behind Bertha, a letter reveals.

11 years ago

Staggering number of reduced-priced ORCA cards being swiped

With King County residents increasingly taking advantage of ORCA LIFT, the nation's largest reduced-fare rider program, officials are still calculating the costs.

11 years ago

This is what it sounds like when John Curley takes his son rat hunting

For the past week, John Curley and his son have been dressing in camouflage and hunting a rat with guns.

11 years ago

Shelter-in-place lifted at Seattle schools after shooting

Seattle police are investigating a shooting at a Rainier Beach parking lot on Wednesday.

11 years ago

Seattle seeing spike in car break-ins

Thieves are breaking into cars at an alarming rate in Seattle.

11 years ago

The fight over I-405 tolls may be just beginning

Drivers are rejoicing the state's decision to turn off the I-405 tolling system during scheduled times, however, the fight may not be over.

11 years ago

Randy Dorn: Reaching 90 percent graduation rate won’t be cheap

Washington's superintendent of public instruction says the state has better data on education than ever before, which has helped distinguish the true story of graduation rates.

11 years ago

Burgess accuses Seattle City Council of having ‘optimism bias,’ but is not ‘shady’

One of two people who voted against rescuing Seattle's bike-share program is calling out his peers for falling for biased testimony.

11 years ago

Timothy Pauley victim on parole decision: ‘We’re still in shock’

Victims of Timothy Pauley were bracing for the worst, but instead received surprising news from the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board.

11 years ago

Bureau worried about ‘storm chasers’ after Puget Sound windstorm

It's like clockwork: in the week after storms hit, shady businesses target homeowners looking to make repairs, but it's the scammers that find themselves cleaning up.