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In a fourth press conference this week, Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes confirmed that one of the victims of Sunday's Bite of Seattle shooting was involved in the shooting.

Uno Reverse: After a struggle over whether to fund universal free school meals or targeted food assistance for the neediest students in the district, the Seattle City Council voted to pay for both. The first year, funding will come from the City budget, which is facing a $175 million deficit. Money from the $1.3 billion […]

Well, Police Chief Shon Barnes is out for real now. Mayor Katie Wilson asked him to resign last night, and he accepted Thursday afternoon.

The August primary is upon us. Tomorrow at 8 pm is the deadline to cast your vote and have a say in myriad state legislative races, state Supreme

It's Election Day: Have you voted? You have until 8 pm tonight to get your ballot into a ballot box . Don't forget to come back to the blog this

Genius alert: The Seattle Times' s Danny Westneat marveled at last night's election results.

Good morning! A heat advisory is still in effect today, until 10 pm Friday, and smoke from the fires in Spokane will likely linger into the weekend. A little good news on that end is that temperatures in Spokane have gone down a bit, allowing crews to contain three of the fires. A little bad […]

Want more? Here’s everything we recommend this month: Music, Visual Art, Literature, Performance, Film, Food, and This & That. Sérgio Mendes Band – Celebrating 60 Years of Brasil ’66Aug 6–9Sérgio Mendes (1941–2024) played a major role in popularizing Brazilian music in the US in the 1960s, fusing bossa nova with Anglo-American pop, rock, jazz, and […]

Guilty: Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges and admitted to killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a Midtown hotel in 2024: “I shot Mr.

Today, the US Supreme Court issued a ruling that could, in the short term, allow the implementation of President Donald Trump’s master plan to upend mail-in voting and delegitimize legitimate voting systems just in time for a midterm election where his approval rating is lower than it has ever been. In March, Trump issued an […]