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Shortly after WSDOT spotted the shower in the road, it was struck by car. (AP Photo/File)...
Alyssa Kleven

Photo: Shower abandoned on I-405 following morning commute

Following the morning commute on Friday, the Washington State Department of Transportation spotted something out of place in Kirkland.
13 years ago
Tim Haeck

Train hits man on tracks in Edmonds, suspends ferry service

Commuter train and ferry service has resumed in Edmonds after a freight train struck and killed a man standing on the tracks Friday morning.
13 years ago
A 7-foot-deep sinkhole opened near the Seattle waterfront Thursday as a tunnel-boring machine pushe...
KIRO Radio Staff

Bertha’s tunneling under Seattle opens sinkhole

A 7-foot-deep sinkhole opened near the Seattle waterfront Thursday as a tunnel-boring machine pushed forward.
13 years ago
Boeing wasted little time in making good on its threat to open the 777X bidding to other willing su...
Chris Sullivan

Boeing already checking out Washington’s competition to build 777X

Boeing wasted little time in making good on its threat to open the 777X bidding to other willing suitors. The company has people on the ground in states around the country exploring its options on where to build the plane.
13 years ago
An early season snow blanketed Stevens Pass with over a foot of snow in late September. (AP photo)...
Josh Kerns

Heavy snow expected for Cascades over weekend

A storm packing plenty of winter weather is bearing down on the Northwest, with up to a foot of snow forecast for the Cascade passes by the weekend.
13 years ago
Greg T. Walton, 38, was charged with second-degree assault and failing to register as a sex offende...
Brandi Kruse

Rapist charged with strangling woman inside hospital bathroom

A violent sex offender, whose criminal history includes raping a woman at knifepoint, has been charged with attacking a woman inside a bathroom at Harborview Medical Center.
13 years ago
Socialist Kshama Sawant leads in the Seattle City Council race by 1,148 votes over Richard Conlin. ...
Stephanie Klein

Sawant lead grows in Seattle City Council race

In the latest election results released Thursday, socialist Kshama Sawant leads in the Seattle City Council race by 1,148 votes over Richard Conlin.
13 years ago
Feliks Banel grew up believing that oldest and most meaningful American history had happened far aw...
Feliks Banel, Local Historian

If it wasn’t for the Racoon, we might all be British

As we observe Veterans' Day this week, the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg later this month, and the centenary of World War One next year, an important and largely forgotten bicentennial is already underway right here at home.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Poulsbo woman arrested for bringing explosive device to Bremerton hospital

A 43-year-old Poulsbo woman is in custody after sparking a bomb scare at a Bremerton hospital with an improvised explosive device.
13 years ago
Dori Monson asks if we could be seeing the beginning of the end of Boeing in the Puget Sound region...

This could be the beginning of the end of Boeing in the Puget Sound region

I used to be in a union. Union life is not for me. What I mean by that is I've always been too fiercely independent to ever go along with groupthink.
13 years ago
Washington’s insurance commissioner says the state will not extend the deadline for Obamacare...
Josh Kerns

Washington insurance commissioner says you can’t keep old plan

Commissioner Mike Kreidler tells KIRO Radio he won't be allowing insurance companies to extend their old policies that didn't meet the requirements of federal health care reform.
13 years ago
A Republican state senator is calling for Washington to become a “right-to-work” state ...
Josh Kerns

Boeing Machinists contract rejection sparks renewed ‘right-to-work’ effort

With Boeing machinists resoundingly rejecting a proposed contract extension to guarantee the 777X would be built in Washington, a Republican state senator is renewing his call for Washington to become a "right-to-work" state.
13 years ago
Jamie Skorheim

Parking vigilante painting lines, leaving notes for Seattle neighbors

A vigilante parking enforcer has been painting lines and leaving crazy notes for neighbors apparently not meeting parking standards.
13 years ago
The state’s highest court rules that the prosecutor can ask for the death penalty in the murd...
Tim Haeck

High court restores death penalty in Monfort case

The state's highest court rules that the prosecutor can ask for the death penalty in the murder case against Christopher Monfort, charged with ambushing a Seattle police officer in 2009.
13 years ago
Boeing Co. workers wave as they deliver the last C-17 Globemaster III cargo jet for the U.S. Air Fo...
Chris Sullivan

Handicapping the competition: Long Beach a likely contender for Boeing 777X

Washington is still in the mix to build Boeing's 777X, so where should it look for its fiercest competition?
13 years ago
Some Seattle-area groups have banded together to fill a 48-foot tractor trailer with bottled water ...
Josh Kerns

Seattle-area groups band together to get drinking water to typhoon-ravaged Philippines

A tractor-trailer full of bottled water could soon be on the way from the Seattle-area to the typhoon-ravaged Philippines thanks to the efforts of a number of generous northwest volunteers and companies.
13 years ago
Josh Kerns

Seatac minimum wage now leads by just 19 votes

The measure to raise the minimum wage in SeaTac to $15 an hour now leads by just 19 votes after the latest count Wednesday afternoon.
13 years ago
Gov. Jay Inslee speaks to reporters in Olympia, Wash. after Boeing machinists rejected an eight-yea...
MyNorthwest.com

Boeing Machinists overwhelmingly reject 777X contract proposal

Thousands of Boeing machinists in the Northwest cast their ballots Wednesday on a contentious contract proposal that would have workers exchange concessions for decades of secure jobs.
13 years ago
A Board of Inquiry has determined the Captain and Second Mate were at fault when the Ferry Hyak col...
Josh Kerns

Human error blamed for Washington State Ferry collision

Human error is being blamed for the crash of the Ferry Hyak and a motor yacht in September, the Washington Department of Transportation has determined.
13 years ago
Boeing machinists march to cast their vote at the International Association of Machinists union hal...
Tim Haeck

Pension the key issue in Boeing Machinists vote

It's rare, the person who spends their entire working life with one company. And mostly gone, too, are the company pension plans. The pension is the Boeing benefit at the center of the controversial machinists vote.
13 years ago
A photo shows some of the small airplane parts that fell out of the sky and hit several houses in W...
Josh Kerns

Plane parts fall from sky into West Seattle homes

Some West Seattle residents are hoping investigators can figure out why some airplane parts fell out of the sky and smashed into their homes Tuesday.
13 years ago
The Washington Health Benefit Exchange is apologizing for telling thousands of people they qualifie...
Tim Haeck

Washington health insurance exchange apologizes for bad information

About 8,000 people who applied for individual insurance through the state's health plan marketplace got bad information about tax credits.
13 years ago
KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson models a mock up of the new Seahawks license plate now available in ...
Josh Kerns

Bidding for Seahawks 12th Man license plate tops $42K

When it comes to the 12th Man, it's pretty clear fans are more than willing to put their money where their mouths are. Bidding for the first official Seattle Seahawks license plate with the number 12 has now reached $42,000 and counting as of Wednesday afternoon.
13 years ago
An arbitrator concluded on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, that Starbucks must pay $2.76 billion to settle ...
Tim Haeck

Starbucks must pay billions for ending business deal

An arbitrator ordered Starbucks to pay $2.76 billion for for prematurely ending a coffee distribution agreement.
13 years ago