Smartphones gripping people’s attention isn’t anything new. But following the pandemic, Kris Hagel recalls seeing a troubling rise in public school students distracted by their phones during class.
King County officials are asking community members concerned about a missing zebra who is likely somewhere along the Snoqualmie Valley Regional Trail to stay away.
Fifty years ago, the World’s Fair attracted tens of thousands of people to Spokane, including President Richard Nixon, and changed the landscape of downtown.
Landscape fabric, once considered the magic bullet for keeping weeds out of garden beds, is proving to be as much of a problem as the weeds it supposedly was to stop.
Every Wednesday morning, the basement of Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Northwest Spokane hums with activity as members of the church’s quilting group descend.
The inaugural concert of the Washington State Pavilion (aka Spokane Opera House, aka the First Interstate Center for the Arts) was the social event of the decade, according to The Spokesman-Review’s society columnist.
The U.S. government is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less harmful drug, a federal spokesperson confirmed this week. If finalized, this change in classification by the U.S. Department of Justice would federally recognize the medical use of cannabis. It would not federally legalize the drug for recreational use, however.
Washington is on track to hit some of its housing goals, but homeownership remains expensive, homelessness is growing, and the supply of affordable homes is still running short.
For almost 120 years Mary’s Place has stood at its South Hill location, eventually in the shadows of the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center campus. But Wednesday morning, the house was flattened in about an hour.
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is hiring an outside investigator to look into claims of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in the Seattle Police Department, he said in a letter to members of the Seattle City Council on Tuesday night.
May 1—A law providing low-income Washington families with a monthly subsidy to buy diapers has been in effect for six months, but the need for diaper banks and other resources remains high. That's especially true in Yakima County, which had a diaper bank until July, when grant funding ended. Members of the Junior League of Yakima are having a Mother's Day diaper drive for Triumph's Parent ...
May 1—Hundreds of asylum-seekers are back living outside after running out of private donations to cover their stay in hotels and short-term rentals across King County. They are now sleeping in a large-scale homeless encampment in a Seattle park even after King County awarded $2 million this month to local nonprofits to support asylum-seekers in need of shelter as they wait to receive their ...
May 1—The last time Washingtonians elected a state schools leader was in 2020, when most school buildings were empty because of the pandemic. Running an all-online campaign, incumbent Chris Reykdal handily won reelection to a second term in the state's highest education office. The pandemic was an important factor in that race, but much less was known about how, and when, kids would return to ...
May 1—Four women and an 11-year-old girl are accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in organized thefts from Lululemon stores from Bellingham to Los Angeles, according to charging documents. The group was connected to 45 thefts from the Canadian athletic apparel retailer amounting to at least $338,336 between Aug. 7 and April 3, according to documents filed ...