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With just 79 police officers, Tukwila pays out $1.5M to settle civil-rights...
Federal court records show the city of Tukwila has paid out more than $1.5 million to settle six civil-rights lawsuits against police officers since 2014, mostly involving allegations of excessive use...
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Rushing to stop a fire that never came, Forest Service logged miles of big...
Trees that stood for centuries and more than 100 acres of critical habitat for endangered spotted owls were logged by the U.S. Forest Service for an emergency fire line — but the Wolverine Fire never...
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Sex offenders’ sentences skewed by error on form
Times Watchdog: For years, an incorrect court sentencing form reduced the length of community custody given to certain sex offenders in Washington state. As a result, more than 70 sex offenders had...
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Patients in ‘immediate danger,’ but state didn’t stop pain doctor for years
TIMES WATCHDOG: Washington state health officials had been warned about possible overdose deaths tied to Dr. Frank Li and Seattle Pain Centers. Why did it take years to stop him?
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Seattle transportation department hired Director Kubly’s former boss
Seattle Department of Transportation Director Scott Kubly, who recently admitted to two ethics violations, just disclosed the department has done business with his former boss.
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Billionaire developer Martin Selig racks up $2M in unpaid Seattle City Light...
Seattle developer and billionaire Martin Selig has racked up nearly $2 million in delinquent electric bills with Seattle City Light, records show.
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Developer pays $1.4M on overdue City Light bill
Billionaire developer Martin Selig on Monday delivered a $1.4 million check to Seattle City Light to pay down overdue electric bills on his properties.
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Seattle’s top-paid employee was under workplace investigation when mayor...
Seattle paid a recruiting firm nearly $50,000 to vet candidates for the Seattle City Light CEO job, but city officials never learned of the workplace investigation at Austin Energy in Texas. The probe...
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Deadly streetcar tracks? Horror stories haunt Seattle bicyclists
Bicyclists say streetcar tracks can catch tires and are slippery when wet, posing a danger of falls and serious, even fatal injuries. But solid data about streetcar-track crashes doesn’t exist, so the...
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Chaos, trash and tears: Inside Seattle’s flawed homeless sweeps
Cleaning up encampments remains a key aspect of Seattle’s strategy to address its homeless crisis. But in more than a dozen encampment sweeps over the past five months, The Times witnessed flawed,...
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Ouch! What cyclists told us about their streetcar-track crashes
Cyclists reported 82 rail-related crashes to The Seattle Times. Find out which intersection proved most challenging.
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New Bellevue football booster club to hold fundraiser amid sanctions
Sanctions upheld this month against the football program prohibit it from accepting booster money for at least two seasons. “We’ve got to make sure we’re abiding by the sanctions, simple as that,’’...
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Sound Transit’s cost overruns for first phase hit about 86 percent
TIMES WATCHDOG | Sound Transit’s cost for its first corridor, SeaTac to the U District, will wind up 86 percent higher than the 1996 initial estimates, according to a new Seattle Times analysis. Should...
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Seattle elephant Bamboo attacked, bitten at new home in Oklahoma
Bamboo, the 49-year-old female elephant moved from Seattle to Oklahoma City last year, has attacked — and been attacked by — her new herd mates. But officials say it’s normal behavior for the animals.
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Sound Transit improperly sent 173,000 ORCA card users’ info to political...
Sound Transit acknowledged the potentially illegal email release after The Seattle Times raised questions. An ORCA cardholder had contacted the newspaper about an ST3 campaign email he received through...
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FBI’s massive porn sting puts internet privacy in crossfire
The FBI snared scores of people after taking over a child-pornography bulletin board and conducting a sting and computer-hacking operation. But there is a growing social and legal controversy over the...
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Might Seattle’s troubled Pronto bike-share system go all-electric?
The leading bidder to operate an expanded Seattle bike-share system has proposed an all-electric fleet. The existing system is still struggling.
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How LinkedIn’s search engine may reflect a gender bias
A search for a female contact may yield website responses asking if the searcher meant to search for a similar-looking man’s name. This comes as some researchers warn that software algorithms aren’t...
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Fact-checking Trump’s speech in Everett
Fact check: Donald Trump correctly described Seattle’s heroin problem and the percentage of Washington Latino children in low-income homes during his rally Tuesday in Everett. But he also told a couple...
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How to find out if a school in Washington state is safe from earthquakes,...
Washington doesn’t have statewide data on the seismic safety of schools. Here are a few tips to find the available information.
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