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American voters overwhelmingly supported efforts to promote police oversight

Voters in communities across the country approved measures on Election Day toughening civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies, including some that took years to reach the ballot but grew in urgency after global protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

They are as Seattle as the Space Needle. But Lake Washington sockeye, once the largest run of sockeye in the Lower 48, are failing.

The King County Council approved million in supplemental funding Tuesday to continue its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The $60 million legislation will fund relief for small businesses, support groups working to reduce youth homelessness, expanded fund for the Community Development Block Grant, increase capacity for more isolation and quarantine facilities, help support the tourism and creative sector that was…

The community-controlled Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or 'Chop' has drawn nationwide attention, but the city's radical history goes back as far as 1919

Public Health confirms four new COVID-19 cases, bringing overall total to 14  King CountyView Full Coverage on Google News

Microsoft this week pledged another $25o million to go toward building and preserving affordable housing in the region. The additional $250 million comes after the company last year announced it would put $500 million into an affordable housing initiative to work to address the huge need for middle- and low-income housing.

New multimillion dollar detention facility set to open in county that has committed both ideologically and financially to eliminating youth incarcerationWhen...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Voters in communities across the country approved measures on Election Day toughening civilian oversight of law enforcement agencies, including some that took years to reach the ballot but grew in urgency after global protests over racial injustice and police brutality. The measures take aim at a chronic

Washington State's most populous county will consider shifting $4.6 million in marijuana tax revenue away from the sheriff's department under a new budget proposal unveiled this week. King County Executive Dow Constantine (D) officially released the plan Tuesday as part of his proposed budget for the next two years. He said the funds would be […]

Reaction in Washington state to the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday at age 87.

A homeless person being tested for the coronavirus wandered out of a new isolation housing facility south of Seattle, prompting alarm from neighbors who wish their town hadn't been chosen.