I am leaving The Stranger. Before the keyboard warriors get too excited, there’s no palace intrigue here. I’m not ragequitting, fleeing, or resigning in protest. I even sat on the hiring committee for...

The US Census is home to vast troves of sensitive data on nearly every person living in the country, which is used for apportioning and drawing congressional districts as well as allocating federal fu...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out a plan to tackle gun violence by better integrating city departments and maintaining services for youth. The announcement comes after weeks of relentless crit...

Twenty-three years ago, I found myself next to a hospital bed. My mother was on it and on life support. The doctor entered the room and painted a bleak picture; and I said to him: I know, I know, it’s serious. After hours of sitting by the bed, watching my mother and the machine that […]

On the (bejeweled six-inch platform) heels of my recent roundup of live Rocky Horror screenings in honor of Tim Curry, the Vicarious Theatre Company, a Rocky Horror shadowcast that performs at the downtown Regal Meridian 16 on the first Saturday of every month, got back to me with an update that was too good to […]

It was a sunny, August afternoon when I called up private investigator Naia Okami. She was hot on the trail of a criminal. I was in need of a scoop.  “The case, as I understand it,” Okami says, “is th...

The Argentine national has been transferred to three detention centers across the country as he awaits his fate.

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A raccoon was spotted in the rafters during the Mariners “Jimothy”-themed game against the Detroit Tigers. The internet has dubbed him Jimothy's cousin, "Dumpster Danothy."

Not a whole lot changed after Wednesday’s relatively small ballot drop, which is typical of the first drop after election day, says King County Elections. (At the county level, only 63,000 ballots wer...

Gathered around a music stand serving as a podium on 10th and Pike, security staff at Neumos, Barboza, and The Runaway announced at a Wednesday afternoon rally that they have unionized as the Neumos S...

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Well, Police Chief Shon Barnes is out for real now. Mayor Katie Wilson asked him to resign last night, and he accepted Thursday afternoon. And no, he was not in Chicago. Wilson appointed Deputy Chief ...

On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…

Barnes, under fire after we reported on his absence from the city during Sunday’s mass shooting, had planned a half-dozen…

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle Police Department Chief Shon Barnes said during a Monday morning press conference that yesterday’s deadly shooting at Seattle Center was the result of two people...

Since TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University last September, his widow Erika Kirk has taken over as the right-wing, youth-focused organization’s CEO and spiritual voi...

Since TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was shot and killed at Utah Valley University last September, his widow Erika Kirk has taken over as the right-wing, youth-focused organization’s CEO and spiritual voi...

So it turns out students may get universal free school meals this fall after all! This afternoon, Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth and Councilmembers Dionne Foster and Dan Strauss anno...

So it turns out students may get universal free school meals this fall after all! This afternoon, Seattle City Council President Joy Hollingsworth and Councilmembers Dionne Foster and Dan Strauss anno...