Category: Local News

In an attempt to help the state retain and attract more health care workers during the current hospital crisis, a new Washington State Senate bill would require insurance companies to reimburse advanced registered nurse practitioners at the same rate of…

The Puget Sound region may finally be turning a corner in the omicron surge. During the Washington State Department of Health’s weekly briefing on Wednesday, Dr. Tao Kwan-Gett, the state’s chief science officer, said that “there do seem to be…

Airlines voiced concerns this week over new 5G frequencies have been activated by cell phone companies, which they fear could interfere with landing airplanes. On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration cleared most large passenger aircraft to land at Seattle-Tacoma Airport,…

Housing, growth management, and a push for upzoning are among the challenges faced by the state Legislature in 2022. How those problems intersect with perhaps the largest ongoing infrastructure project in the Puget Sound region — which includes light rail…

Republic Services and Teamsters 542, whose sanitation and trash collection workers from the San Diego area have been on strike since mid-December, have ratified a new contract, settling a dispute over allegations of unfair labor practices. The strike extended north…

As of Tuesday morning, there is only one intensive care bed available in all of Snohomish County. New mass COVID vaccination site opens in Snohomish County Snohomish County Health Officer Dr. Chris Spitters says that while COVID-19 cases are beginning…

After soaring to record numbers in January, COVID-19 cases in King County appear to finally be trending downward. King County COVID cases soar by nearly 200% over holiday weekend The latest update from Seattle-King County Public Health indicates that cases…

Rumors spread like wildfire around the internet in early January, claiming that the state Board of Health was meeting to set up forced quarantine facilities for the unvaccinated. Protesters later flocked to the state Department of Health offices in Tumwater,…

In July of 2006, a 12-year-old girl who had run away from home in search of her mother made her way to Seattle. It was a beautiful sunny day. It was the day of the Torchlight Parade. The girl, who…

The eruption of the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcano had the entire West Coast of the United States under a tsunami warning for most of Saturday. But the volcano’s effect on the Seattle area manifested in a different, more peculiar…