Seattle

Authorities say a car drove onto a closed freeway and into a crowd of protesters, killing one person and critically injuring another. Twenty-four-year-old Summer Taylor of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center.

Police on Wednesday forcibly cleared out Seattle’s “occupied” protest zone after about two weeks in a situation that had attracted the complaints of local business owners and the ire of President Donald Trump during a number of Twitter posts

Seattle city crews used heavy equipment to remove makeshift barriers around the city’s “occupied” protest zone following two fatal shootings in the area.

A 16-year-old boy was killed and and a younger teen was wounded before dawn in what is being called Seattle’s occupied protest zone

Seattle’s mayor says the city will move to wind down the “occupied” protest zone following two recent shootings, including one that left a man dead.

At least one person was wounded, police said, in what was the second shooting in Seattle’s protest zone in less than 48 hours.

A shooting in Seattle’s protest zone has left one person dead and another critically injured

Bags full of human remains were discovered along the shoreline in Seattle, police said Friday night.

Protesters returned to the streets around the country on Saturday, in some cases defying official curfews, following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

Organizers of the annual Seattle Out and Proud parade have made the decision to hold the event online this year in light of the coronavirus pandemic. Almost half a million people attended the event last year.

Starbucks says it’s moving to a to-go model for all its stores in the U.S. and Canada for at least two weeks over concern about the new coronavirus.

The Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners are looking for a venue for their season-opening series after Washington’s governor announced a ban Wednesday on all large gatherings in the counties hit hard by the new coronavirus.

Hundreds of dogs and cats on “doggy death row” that entered shelters because of Fourth of July fireworks and recent wildfires were flown to new homes across the nation Saturday.

Stand on any block around lunchtime near Amazon.com’s downtown Seattle headquarters and there are two common sights: people walking their dogs and people buying lunch at food trucks. The scene offers a window into Seattle’s infatuations with dogs (and cats), which outnumber children here, and the maturing roaming food truck market. Now, one truck is combining both by catering to...

A person has been diagnosed with coronavirus in Chicago, marking the second confirmed case in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A gunman opened fire in downtown Seattle on Wednesday night, killing one person and wounding seven others, authorities said. Seattle Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said authorities began receiving calls at about 5 p.m. Wednesday of multiple gunshot victims. One person was found dead in a heavily trafficked area of downtown and five others were taken to a Seattle hospital, he…

Police responded to calls of a shooting near Pike Place Market Wednesday afternoon, near a press briefing about a separate officer-involved shooting.

The U.S. has its first case of a new virus that was found only last month in China. A U.S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus. The man returned to the Seattle area in the middle of last week after traveling to the Wuhan area, where the outbreak...

A Seattle area movie theater was evacuated on Friday after mistakenly receiving a leaking package that contained bodily fluids, NBC News reports. The North Bend Theatre in North Bend, Washington — about 30 miles east of Seattle — received a box marked “highly contagious human substance” on Friday night, according to a Twitter thread from Eastside Fire & Rescue. Authorities...

Right-hander Adrian Sampson has been placed on unconditional release waivers by the Texas Rangers, a move that allows the right-hander to pitch in South Korea.