1+ week, 4+ day ago   (830+ words) For the past year, Seattle has been operating a recovery center for opioid overdoses. Staff say the center is diverting people away from hospital emergency rooms — and allowing them quicker access to new types of medications for opioid use disorder....

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (506+ words) Regulators have stopped a Seattle cement plant's push to burn more tires for fuel. The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency told Ash Grove Cement in August that the increased tire burning the agency had approved in December would put too…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (683+ words) For generations of kids coming of age in the Pacific Northwest, Wild Waves was an indelible experience, a keystone Seattle summer ritual. Now, after 50 seasons, the era of Wild Waves is coming to an end. “And it's sad to think…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1148+ words) By the time long-distance hiker Derek Hu reached Washington’s Stevens Pass on the Pacific Crest Trail, the engineer from Taiwan had crossed 2,467 miles of mountains, snowfields, forests, and deserts, starting at the border with Mexico. Smoke from the rapidly growing…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (291+ words) Seattle city leaders have launched a two-prong effort to meet a goal of eliminating traffic fatalities and serious injuries on city roadways by 2030, as those deaths and injuries continue to rise. Wilson's executive order came a day after Transportation Committee…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (495+ words) If the pit across the street from Seattle City Hall were a person, it would be old enough to drink. The building that last stood there, the public safety building, was demolished in 2005. Since then, the giant hole in the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (908+ words) One morning in March, Lockspot Café co-owner Ryan Faniel arrived at work to learn the stand-up refrigerators weren’t working. A quick inspection revealed some of the copper wire from their condensers had been ripped out overnight. Faniel called in the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (450+ words) The start of the school year for most Seattle Public Schools students is just nine days away, but the district and its teachers union have yet to finalize a new contract. Online updates from the Seattle Education Association say educator…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (505+ words) The only person who has been arrested in connection to the July 26 Seattle Center mass shooting was denied release and electronic home monitoring Tuesday. A King County juvenile court judge said the teen, who is charged with first-degree assault, is…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (680+ words) Traffic deaths on stretches of Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Seattle have doubled in the last five-year period, despite the city’s goal to reach zero traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030. A KUOW analysis of recent city data shows…...