Batteries are in a whole bunch of stuff: Laptops, remotes, phones, portable chargers, tablets, vapes, garage clickers (you get it), and in Seattle, they can’t go in the garbage anymore. This includes double and AAA batteries. Seattle Public Utilities and the city government want residents to keep batteries out of the garbage because they’re a …

Bellevue police are asking for the public’s help locating a woman they say stole a Seattle firefighter’s wallet, racking up $8,500 worth of purchases at the Bellevue Square mall. Neil Junkin is a firefighter with the Seattle Fire Department and he runs a business on the side where he puts up Christmas lights for the …

WSDOT said it will enforce an “emergency closure” of a long-standing encampment on Dearborn between 10th and 12th after a series of fires and after getting pressed by KOMO News. Late Sunday, another fire erupted at the state-owned land near I-5 on the ramp. Two Seattle engines were dispatched to put out the flames. It …

A Seattle Fire Department crew was inside the Ballard Fred Meyer when a security guard rushed to warn them about people rummaging through their fire truck in the parking lot. The firefighters noted the guard was “shaking” as he told them he had just been chased by a group of men after yelling at them …

0:00 An altercation outside of a Capitol Hill bar led to the stabbing of four people and the arrest of a 36-year-old man early Friday morning. Police said a man and woman were sent to Harborview Medical Center, where the man is in “serious condition.” Two more people had non-life-threatening injuries and were not sent …