Seattle

Downed power lines caused a fire south of Seattle on Monday. Drone video shows the destruction of at least eight homes.

Seattle’s police chief says she will retire

Seattle police have retreated to a precinct as a declared riot winded down in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood near where weeks earlier people had set up an “occupied protest zone” that stretched for several blocks

The NHL’s newest team finally has a name: the Seattle Kraken

Prosecutors have filed three felony charges against the man who hit two protesters with his car while driving on a Seattle freeway that was closed for Black Lives Matter demonstrations

A judge set bail at $1.2 million on Monday for the man accused of driving a Jaguar on to a closed Seattle freeway and hitting two protesters, killing one

Authorities say a car drove onto a closed freeway and into a crowd of protesters, killing one person and critically injuring another. Twenty-four-year-old Summer Taylor of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center.

Police on Wednesday forcibly cleared out Seattle’s “occupied” protest zone after about two weeks in a situation that had attracted the complaints of local business owners and the ire of President Donald Trump during a number of Twitter posts

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

A 16-year-old boy was killed and and a younger teen was wounded before dawn in what is being called Seattle’s occupied protest zone

Seattle’s mayor says the city will move to wind down the “occupied” protest zone following two recent shootings, including one that left a man dead.

At least one person was wounded, police said, in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

Bags full of human remains were discovered along the shoreline in Seattle, police said Friday night.

Protesters returned to the streets around the country on Saturday, in some cases defying official curfews, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

Organizers of the annual Seattle Out and Proud parade have made the decision to hold the event online this year in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Almost half a million people attended the event last year.

Starbucks says it’s moving to a to-go model for all its stores in the U.S. and Canada for at least two weeks over concern about the new coronavirus.

Hundreds of dogs and cats on “doggy death row” that entered shelters because of Fourth of July fireworks and recent wildfires were flown to new homes across the nation Saturday.

Stand on any block around lunchtime near Amazon.com’s downtown Seattle headquarters and there are two common sights: people walking their dogs and people buying lunch at food trucks. The scene offers a window into Seattle’s infatuations with dogs (and cats), which outnumber children here, and the maturing roaming food truck market. Now, one truck is combining both by catering to...

The woman diagnosed with coronavirus in Chicago, the second confirmed case of the new and potentially deadly virus in the United States, did not have much contact outside her home following her return from Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the latest outbreak, according to health officials.