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Breaking point? King County jails corrections officers worked more than...
Staffing King County's adult and juvenile jails is a 24-hour-a-day job. The officers who do it say they're being required to work so much overtime that safety's at risk. They want more hiring. County...
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Washington corrections officials scrambling after new sentencing errors...
State Department of Corrections officials are reviewing thousands of cases to determine how many inmates may have been released too early — or held too long. They know of at least a dozen instances.
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Study: High-risk patients may have worse outcomes when surgeons are...
In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers examined outcomes for patients when surgeons were running multiple operating rooms at the same time. The study found...
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Flawed analysis, failed oversight: How Boeing, FAA certified the suspect 737...
Federal Aviation Administration managers pushed its engineers to delegate wide responsibility for assessing the safety of the 737 MAX to Boeing itself. But safety engineers familiar with the documents...
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Under the radar, Trump’s travel ban keeps families waiting years to reunite...
A young generation of highly educated residents in the Seattle area, some working at high-profile tech companies, continue to be separated from their loved ones by President Trump's travel ban....
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Debt collectors that ‘sue, sue, sue’ can squeeze Washington state consumers...
Washington state has among the most punishing laws in the country for people in debt, allowing collection companies to take advantage of high interest rates and of courts that have made it easy to sue...
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Washington State Patrol is expanding Gov. Jay Inslee’s security unit amid...
Anticipating a frenetic out-of-state travel schedule as Inslee campaigns for president, the Patrol plans to assign six additional troopers, a sergeant and a lieutenant to the Executive Protection Unit....
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FAA had initial version of Boeing’s proposed 737 MAX software fix seven weeks...
The acting FAA chief will tell a Senate hearing Wednesday that "Boeing submitted … to the FAA for certification" its proposed flight-control software enhancement for the 737 MAX on Jan. 21, seven weeks...
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Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX system baffles some involved in...
As Boeing designed an automated safety system for the 737 MAX, the company built it to potentially activate based on the reading of a single sensor. That decision has baffled even those who worked on...
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Washington corrections officials reverse ban, will allow prisoners to get...
After an outcry by a Seattle nonprofit and questions from state lawmakers and Gov. Jay Inslee, corrections officials Wednesday released a memo reversing their recent ban against organizations mailing...
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Washington Senate passes bills aimed at helping consumers break out of debt
The Washington Senate on Monday passed a batch of bills easing post-judgment interest rates on consumers and barring so-called "pocket service."
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Deadly sting, wrong target: How the death of a cop’s son led King County...
Records show how King County sheriff's deputies, hunting for the killers of a Seattle police officer's son, lured the wrong target, leading to the death of a Des Moines teenager who had nothing to do...
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Engineers say Boeing pushed to limit safety testing in race to certify...
Some current and former Boeing engineers who worked on behalf of the FAA say company managers pressured them to limit safety analysis and testing and analysis on planes, including the 737 MAX, in order...
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Cambodians who fled to Seattle ‘shocked’ as details emerge of state senator’s...
Ericksen has defended the contract as a legitimate second job for a part-time state legislator. He said he won't engage in lobbying and will focus on improving trade between the U.S. and Cambodia.
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Boeing altered key switches in 737 MAX cockpit, limiting ability to shut off...
On Boeing’s 737 MAX, the company altered cutout switches to remove an option that would potentially allow pilots to shut off automated controls while keeping the functionality of the manual electric...
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What caused Seattle crane to collapse? Experts say a common practice is...
The investigation into the April crane collapse that killed four people in South Lake Union is ongoing. The possibility that tower bolts or pins were removed early, while the crane was being dismantled...
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Seattle drafted a plan to tax Uber and Lyft traffic months ago. Now what?
Transportation-network company drivers made about 24.3 million TNC trips that started in Seattle in 2018, up from about 20.9 million in 2017, according to the city.
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‘It was hush money’: College students got settlements that required silence
“It was hush money. It was literal hush money,” said a former Central Washington University student who received a confidential settlement after troubles at her campus. The Times obtained settlement...
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UW finds star athlete’s sexual assault allegation credible, but athletic...
Less than a year after a UW investigation found that senior associate athletic director Roy Shick's behavior amounted to sexual misconduct, he became vice president of another university.
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The inside story of MCAS: How Boeing’s 737 MAX system gained power and lost...
This is the story, including previously unreported details, of how Boeing developed the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, which played a critical role in two airliners nose-diving out of...
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