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UW running back remained on team while under investigation for alleged rapes
The UW running back posted bail Wednesday for rape charges, but remains under investigation for an alleged assault on a bicyclist.
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Why Bellevue Arts Museum is emergency fundraising. Again.
The museum raised $349,000 in another emergency fundraiser 一 but to stop living paycheck to paycheck, a lot more needs to happen.
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University of Washington rejects protesters’ calls to cut Boeing ties
Boeing has donated more than $100 million to the school since 1917, complicating pro-Palestinian protesters' demands to cut ties.
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5 takeaways on what’s next for mental health care from ‘Lost Patients’ event
KUOW Soundside host Libby Denkmann and "Lost Patients" podcast host Will James moderated a conversation about Washington’s mental health care system in a live event on May 9.
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A law to protect WA health care workers keeps patients in crisis
If someone is in psychiatric crisis, a state law could take them away from mental health help — and land them in jail, a Seattle Times and Marshall Project investigation found.
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King County ignored civil rights complaints for 20 months
Dozens, if not hundreds, of discrimination complaints went unacknowledged by King County's Office of Equity, Racial and Social Justice, an investigation found.
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After MAX crashes, Congress told FAA to change. Here’s how it’s doing
A law aimed at ending the FAA's reliance on Boeing employees to conduct inspections for the regulator, among other sweeping changes, is still being implemented.
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UW primate research lab director dismissed amid a halt in monkey deliveries
The dismissal of Dr. Michele Basso last month from the Washington National Primate Research Center — one of seven federally-funded primate labs nationwide — comes after a routine inspection report...
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WA nears a plan to remove key culverts for salmon — after spending $4B
A gush of public spending is opening streams to salmon. Four years after lawmakers ordered a strategy, agencies have an algorithm to pick the best projects.
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Neglect at boarding school left WA student with vision loss, lawsuit alleges
A ProPublica investigation published in May documented numerous allegations of abuse and neglect of students at Shrub Oak in its short time in operation.
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Inslee vetoed a study of data center power use. Here’s what other states are...
Like Washington, other states have struggled to meet the ravenous power demands of data centers, but in some cases have taken stronger steps to prepare.
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Data centers guzzle power, threatening WA’s clean energy push
Some Washington utility officials might face a daunting choice: violate a state green energy law limiting fossil fuel use or risk rolling blackouts.
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Data centers got a huge tax break to create WA jobs. Is it paying off?
Tax breaks to Microsoft and other Washington data centers were tied to Big Tech job promises, but lawmakers let the results stay hidden from the public.
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Why WA is demolishing a 60-year-old family auto shop for salmon
The state is daylighting a Lake Forest Park stream for spawning fish to comply with a federal court order. This auto shop was in the way.
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WA state’s sex offender registry: What to know
More than 20,000 people are required to register as sex offenders in Washington. Here's how to use the sex offender registry for your area.
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The island where WA has confined hundreds for sexual violence: What to know
McNeil Island has been used to detain people for longer than Washington has been a state. But today, just the 131 residents of DSHS’ Special Commitment Center remain.
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WA confined hundreds for sexual violence. Then it quietly began releasing them.
DSHS’ civil commitment center on McNeil Island is one of the state’s most expensive forms of institutionalization. But the agency does not track when the people released commit new crimes.
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Family of man who died in Seattle jail sues county for $25 million
Michael Rowland was one of five people to die at the King County Jail in downtown Seattle in the spring and winter of 2022.
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How a $32M solar grant to the Yakama Nation got tied up in bureaucracy
Supporters say the Yakama case shows that if the White House can’t keep bureaucracy from undermining its own goals, then it’s making promises it can’t keep.
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Another mystery fireworks display rumbles across Puget Sound, this time off...
Almost exactly a year ago, a big private display startled Puget Sound, with the show heard 50 miles away. The same company was behind Saturday night’s fireworks.
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