A judge on Friday threw out tough new job standards for county sheriffs approved by Washington lawmakers this year.

From the first question of a debate Wednesday night, John Duresky and Amanda McKinney sparred over big issues in Washington's 4th Congressional District.

Gov. Bob Ferguson on Monday asked President Donald Trump for federal aid to help recover from wildfires this summer.

The Trump administration had sought to limit anti-terrorism funding for local governments that didn’t check the citizenship status of voters.

During a listening session in South Seattle, one resident said they want a police chief who is constantly "on the battlefield that we are on."

Legendary drummer Dale Crover now sits on the drum throne for seminal metal band Sleep. Here's how the partnership came to be.

A local official says a federal immigration agent has shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas. City Councilmember Mike Siegel says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer rammed the man’s car then got out of his federal vehicle and opened fire at least five times.

Over the coming weeks, a new series will examine what’s working in this state, where we’re still falling behind and how our education system can rise to meet the occasion.

Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.

Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.

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A tentative deal — struck the night before the first day of school — followed 30 bargaining sessions. Teachers officially voted to ratify it Tuesday.

UW Medicine performed 443 organ transplants in 2025. Survivors from around the Pacific Northwest gathered to celebrate each other at a UW auditorium Sunday.

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

Democratic officials in Olympia cheered the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to spike a Trump administration plan to reshape mail voting ahead of the midterms.

The commercial core of downtown saw the largest drop in crime over the past eight years of any neighborhood in the city, a Seattle Times analysis finds.

With seven weeks until Election Day, officials are preparing for seized ballots, troops at the polls and a postal system that could reject ballots by the batch.

Unionized workers at Embassy Suites by Hilton Seattle Downtown Pioneer Square reached an agreement with their employer.

After midnight, two people were killed in separate shootings within two hours in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood.

Kory Kranz knew two brothers killed in the Longview mill disaster in May. Since then, he hasn’t stopped working on memorials for the dead.

A North Seattle resident is demanding accountability for bounty hunters who fired less-lethal ammo while apprehending a wanted man next to a playground.

The economy is unpredictable, the cost of living is soaring, the political landscape jolts wildly on a daily basis. This is not news to anyone who reads The Seattle Times. And yet, the members of The ...

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez faces possible Democratic discipline after joining Republicans on a procedural vote this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Politicos of different stripes agree: Opposition to the caucus was better organized, and funded, than it was in 2024, when the group won control of the House.

Secretary of State Tobias Read is asking for more money to help ensure voters can skip mailing their ballot this year.

Thousands of state employees are protesting what they say are inadequate pay proposals from Gov. Bob Ferguson in ongoing labor negotiations.

Responding to a senator’s questions, Gen. Dan Caine said the Pentagon did not plan to send military personnel to voting sites or to seize ballots or voting machines.

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said Washington state is poised to sue again over Trump's executive order to restrict mail-in ballots.

Gun violence at the annual Bite of Seattle festival illustrates how difficult it is for lawmakers to stop mass shootings in a nation awash in firearms.

Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction.

The hunger strike marks the 20th time this year that detainees have used the tool to advocate for better food and medical care, advocates say.

General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...