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Did Seattle’s downtown drug crackdown push crimes elsewhere?
Calls about narcotics and other types of crime dropped dramatically in Seattle’s downtown core under the 9 ½ Block Strategy but increased in surrounding areas.
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Highline district struggles with fallout after limiting student suspensions
Three years ago, Highline sat at the leading edge of a national effort to rethink school discipline and move away from outright punishment. Since then, many teachers have resigned, pointing toward a...
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State doesn’t keep track of old gas lines like the one in Greenwood
State regulators don’t keep records of abandoned gas lines like the Puget Sound Energy one that caused a Greenwood explosion in March. It’s not clear if PSE does either. Another company, Cascade...
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At least five sex offenders let off supervision early due to errors
A review of a Washington sex-offender program earlier this year found at least five sex offenders were released early from community supervision — including three who were supposed to be supervised for...
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Ads for Sound Transit 3 pack in light-rail riders pretty tight
Truth Needle: Can a light-rail system carry 16,000 hourly riders through its busiest places? Perhaps, if people are extremely crammed.
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State pouring billions into schools, but are they ‘fully funded’? Districts...
Trying to comply with the McCleary ruling, Washington state has poured billions of dollars into fully funding basic K-12 education. But school districts are still spending millions of dollars in local...
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Special-ed student confined 617 times in 6 months despite state laws
The effectiveness of a law limiting how often school officials physically restrain or isolate students is impossible to judge because nearly half the state’s school districts missed the reporting...
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An earthquake worse than the ‘Big One’? Shattered New Zealand city shows...
The 2011 earthquake that crumpled Christchurch, New Zealand, gives a vision of the danger lurking under Seattle — and insights on how to lessen some of the damage and bounce back.
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Lessons from Christchurch: 4 key ways Seattle can prepare for earthquake...
What Christchurch, New Zealand, learned from its destructive earthquakes, and how Washington state compares.
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Earthquake-insurance prices soar in Washington, and companies hold all the power
SEISMIC NEGLECT | In negotiations over earthquake-insurance rates, companies can threaten to walk away. Washington’s insurance commissioner's strategy? Give the companies what they want.
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‘Hott mess’: Seattle’s civil-rights monitors slam brakes on some...
Times Watchdog | Dozens of handwritten notes from the city’s Office of Civil Rights illustrate the troubled and sometimes dangerous sweeps of homeless camps across the city.
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King County Sheriff Urquhart told investigators to ignore woman’s claim he...
After a former deputy recently alleged King County Sheriff John Urquhart raped her 14 years ago, Urquhart directed his investigators not to document her complaint, according to sworn testimony....
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How long you in for? Courts leave sentences unclear for hundreds of state...
Times Watchdog: Offenders entering Washington’s prisons sometimes come with confusing or even incorrect sentences given out by the courts system, state corrections officials say. When the agency...
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Would U District upzone kill cheap housing? Depends whom you ask
Proponents and opponents of a University District upzone are telling very different stories about potential displacement. One is comforting, while the other is frightening. Both deserve asterisks.
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Oversight agency says its hands are tied on King County police-misconduct...
A former deputy’s allegation that King County Sheriff John Urquhart raped her 14 years ago won’t be investigated by the county’s civilian law-enforcement watchdog because that agency has yet to...
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Fatal confines? A teen’s troubling death in Nisqually tribal jail
Under an unusual contract, Yelm police sent 19-year-old Andrew Westling to the Nisqually tribal jail for two alleged misdemeanors. About 24 hours later, he was found dead after jail officers didn’t...
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Washington’s 30-year earthquake drill for the ‘Big One’: Order studies....
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has ordered a new report on seismic danger, adding to a paper trail of recommendations that have largely been ignored for decades.
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Mobile-home park’s residents left in dark as homes are sold out from under them
Neighbors in a low-income, mostly Latino mobile-home park are fighting Kittitas County’s surprise plan to evict them. Now the state is investigating.
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From the editor: Investigative journalism takes support from readers like you
The investigative project we’re publishing this week exemplifies the kind of public service we at The Seattle Times are so proud of and take so seriously. But fearless journalism is not free.
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The O.R. factory: High volume, big dollars, rising tension at Swedish’s...
QUANTITY OF CARE | At Swedish's premier neurosurgery hub, internal records and interviews with staff reveal an array of warnings about patient safety amid concerns about retribution from a star surgeon...
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