The city of Seattle has a $250 million problem. That’s the difference between how much the city is projected to collect next year and what it’s projected to spend. This week, Mayor Bruce Harrell delivered his proposal to deal with that hard reality. Now it’s up to the city council to finalize the plan before …
A 29-year-old man was fatally shot inside a West Seattle shared kitchen business on Wednesday afternoon. Seattle police said shortly after 4 p.m., they received calls reporting that shots were fired at Distinguished Foods Kitchen Rental in the 4600 block of 36th Ave SW. When officers arrived, they found a victim who’d been shot multiple …
Firefighters are battling a vacant commercial building blaze in Rainier Beach Wednesday morning. The fire began burning on the 9200 block of Renton Avenue South in Seattle around 5:30 a.m. “Crews on scene report flames through the roof of the vacant building,” the Seattle Fire Department wrote on X at 5:40 a.m. “They are in …
An investigation is underway after suspected arson early Monday morning in Seattle’s Licton Springs neighborhood. The fire, which spread from one apartment building to another on the 8800 block of Nesbit Avenue North — about a block east of Aurora Avenue North — prompted the Seattle Fire Department to upgrade its response to two alarms …
The Washington State Patrol provided an update Tuesday afternoon after six people were injured in seven separate shootings along Interstate 5 in King and Pierce counties within 3 hours. The WSP said a suspect was arrested in Pierce County and booked into the King County jail for first-degree assault. WSP Communications Director Chris Loftis said …
A 58-year-old man was shot and killed inside a Capitol Hill apartment building along 17th Avenue Thursday morning. The Seattle Police Department said the incident occurred around 8:20 a.m. at theOlive Ridge apartments, which is a Seattle Housing Authority property at 1700 17th Avenue. The victim, a 58-year-old man, was found in the seventh-floor hallway …
A fire at a building under construction in Seattle’s Mount Baker neighborhood created a large plume of smoke early Friday morning above Lake Washington. The Seattle Fire Department first posted that crews were responding to a building in the area of the 4000 block of 43rd Avenue South. The fire eventually was upgraded to a …
Two people are dead after a motorcycle crashed into a Seattle Fire Department truck in Queen Anne Monday morning. The fatal crash occurred at 3:16 a.m., and the Seattle Police Department said traffic on the 1000 block of Queen Anne Avenue North was closed going all directions for a few hours. According to police, the …
Residents and businesses in Capitol Hill were asked to close their windows and doors to prevent smoke from entering Friday morning amid a vacant-building fire. The Seattle Fire Department first posted about the fire — located on the 1700 block of Belmont Avenue — at 4:32 a.m. The SFD said 20 minutes later that the …
A woman in her 20s suffered a gunshot-wound graze to the head and a man in his 20s was shot in the finger in Capitol Hill early Monday morning. The shooting occurred around 2:30 a.m. near the intersection of East Pike Street and Broadway, according to Seattle police. Police said they provided medical treatment to …