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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ordered Bertha to halt boring underneath Seattle on Jan. 13 after a sink...
Richard D. Oxley

Gov. Inslee: Seattle tunnel contractor downplaying Bertha’s sinkhole

WSDOT is not accepting a report from Seattle Tunnel Partners, saying it does not adequately address how crews will avoid sinkholes in the future.
11 years ago
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ordered Bertha to halt boring underneath Seattle on Jan. 13 after a sink...
Richard D. Oxley

Gov. Inslee: Seattle tunnel contractor downplaying Bertha’s sinkhole

WSDOT is not accepting a report from Seattle Tunnel Partners, saying it does not adequately address how crews will avoid sinkholes in the future.
11 years ago
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ordered Bertha to halt boring underneath Seattle on Jan. 13 after a sink...
Richard D. Oxley

Gov. Inslee: Seattle tunnel contractor downplaying Bertha’s sinkhole

WSDOT is not accepting a report from Seattle Tunnel Partners, saying it does not adequately address how crews will avoid sinkholes in the future.
11 years ago
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee ordered Bertha to halt boring underneath Seattle on Jan. 13 after a sink...
Richard D. Oxley

Gov. Inslee: Seattle tunnel contractor downplaying Bertha’s sinkhole

WSDOT is not accepting a report from Seattle Tunnel Partners, saying it does not adequately address how crews will avoid sinkholes in the future.
11 years ago
homeless Seattle shanty...
Feliks Banel

A look at Seattle’s homeless ‘Shacktown’ history

Seattle historian Feliks Banel takes a look at the city's original homeless encampment at the turn of the 20th Century.
11 years ago
Boeing and U.S. Air Force crews complete the KC-46A Pegasus tanker’s first refueling flight f...
Kipp Robertson

Boeing, Air Force complete ‘important milestone’ in the skies

Boeing and the U.S. Air Force successfully completed a new tankers first refueling flight above Washington on Sunday.
11 years ago
The estimated magnitude-9.0 Cascadia earthquake of Jan. 26, 1700 was located about 150 miles off th...
Kipp Robertson

Video: Massive West Coast earthquake generates tsunami over 300 years ago

More than 300 years ago the biggest earthquake on record hit the West Coast.
11 years ago
Also known as “slow earthquakes,” the tremors are a phenomenon that occur along the Cas...
Kipp Robertson

‘Slow-moving’ earthquake continues march south through Western Washington

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports hundreds of tremors were reported in the Puget Sound region as recently as Sunday.
11 years ago
A woman in her 40s walked into the Lynnwood Library Sunday with a shotgun. The library reopens Mond...
MyNorthwest.com

‘It was terrifying’: Woman brings shotgun into Lynnwood Library

The Lynnwood Library will open again Monday, after being closed Sunday when a woman walked through it carrying a shotgun.
11 years ago
Michele Anderson will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing six family members on Christ...
KIRO 7 News

Woman accused of killing family members in Carnation goes on trial

Nearly eight years after a massacre in Carnation that left six people dead, a woman goes on trial in Seattle Monday morning, KIRO 7 reports.
11 years ago
Northgate...
KIRO 7 News

Ballard home littered with needles ‘seems like it’s getting worse’

Even the developer who owns the home said he wants to tear down the troubled house, but the city won't let him.
11 years ago
Scanner boxes such as this one are what car thieves are using to gain entry to cars. Thieves will p...
Richard D. Oxley

Car theft goes high tech: How prowlers are embracing technology

Car thieves are going high tech and can enter vehicles within seconds of walking up to them.
11 years ago
Steven of Everett wants people to know that not all RV dwellers are drug addicts and thieves. Some,...
Colleen O

‘We’re not all criminals,’ says Everett man living in RV

The fight between RV-dwellers and Seattle homeowners has reached the suburbs where a man living out of his RV in Everett says police are now harassing him because of unfair media coverage.
11 years ago
Superintendent of Public Instruction Randy Dorn says the state needs to take some extreme steps to ...
Kipp Robertson

State superintendent: Lawmakers are playing kick the can

It's very unlikely state lawmakers will find a way to fully fund basic education without increasing taxes.
11 years ago
A woman was shot Thursday night at a movie theater at The Landing in Renton and the suspect is in c...
KIRO 7 News

Woman critically injured in Renton movie theater shooting; suspect in custody

A woman was shot Thursday night at a movie theater at The Landing in Renton and the suspect is in custody, police said.
11 years ago
Redmond police have provided this sketch to the public of the suspect that left the KKK attire. (Re...
Richard D. Oxley

KKK scare in Redmond, police searching for suspect

The Redmond Police Department is searching for a man who left KKK attire at a African American owned business.
11 years ago
homeless rv...
Richard D. Oxley

How Wallingford got rid of its roadside RV problem

RVs used to line Northlake Way until local businesses and residents pressured the city for about a year to do something.
11 years ago
Seattle Tunnel Partners plan to shut off wells that have kept Bertha operations dry, while the bori...
Richard D. Oxley

Dewatering wells shut off as Bertha sits idle at Seattle waterfront

Seattle Tunnel Partners plan to shut off wells that have kept Bertha operations dry, while the boring machine sits dormant.
11 years ago
Snoqualmie Pass closed Thursday due to high avalanche danger. (WSDOT)...
Kipp Robertson

Snow once again proves to be a nemesis of I-90 drivers

The Washington State Department of Transportation closed I-90 from North Bend to Ellensburg Thursday morning. This closure, however, is a doozy.
11 years ago
Snoqualmie Pass closed Thursday due to high avalanche danger. (WSDOT)...
Kipp Robertson

Snow once again proves to be a nemesis of I-90 drivers

The Washington State Department of Transportation closed I-90 from North Bend to Ellensburg Thursday morning. This closure, however, is a doozy.
11 years ago
Brady Olson posted a photo of himself Wednesday holding a campaign sign that reads: “Brady Ol...
Kipp Robertson

‘Hero’ teacher who stopped North Thurston shooter expected to run for office

The North Thurston High School teacher who was hailed a hero after taking down a 16-year-old shooter will run for a seat in the state Legislature.
11 years ago
“I don’t think anybody wants casualties involved in what appears to be an issue with ho...
Sara Lerner

Oregon standoff pits birders against militia

It's been more than two weeks and militants are still occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in rural Oregon.
11 years ago
“We do already know that the contractor – for reasons that are just astounding to us &#...
Kipp Robertson

Gov. Inslee astounded by Seattle tunnel contractor’s decisions to stop quality control

Gov. Jay Inslee told Seattle's Morning News that after the sinkhole opened up behind Bertha Jan. 19, it became apparent that Seattle Tunnel Partners was not doing what it needed to guarantee safety.
11 years ago
A report states that the Juan de Fuca Plate in the Pacific Ocean slipped beneath the North American...
Kipp Robertson

Report of looming West Coast earthquake a ‘hoax’, scientists say

West Coast scientists are calling out a report from the East Coast.
11 years ago