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YWCA to break ground on $56.5 million Belltown apartment building

The development will replace a century-old housing complex at Second Avenue and Battery Street.

Bellevue human trafficking charges: Teens forced into OnlyFans content mill

Prosecutors charged a man, 22, with leading an organized crime ring and four counts of human trafficking, alleging he violently forced women to make porn.

Mariners challenge their way to win over Orioles, 6-3

The good thing about the punishing grind of an MLB season is it doesn’t allow a lot of time for wallowing. Just one day after the Mariners blew a winnable game in Detroit to drop a series against the lowly Tigers, they escaped with a win in Baltimore today in the series opener against the […]

Artisanal or exploitative? Unraveling the story of Mexico’s World Cup jerseys

Last month, Adidas and Someone Somewhere unveiled versions of the Mexican national team jersey embroidered by hand by 150 Nahua women high in the mountains of central Mexico, in a tiny town called Naupan.

TUESDAY PREVIEW: Take a RainWise walking tour in West Seattle

(WSB file photo – RainWise cisterns at Peace Lutheran Church) Perhaps you’re listening to tonight’s rain coursing through a downspout and wondering if there’s something better to do with all that water than let it run into a side sewer or the street (eventually polluting local waterways). There might be, especially if you’re eligible for […]

Why are birthrates down? You might be looking at the answer.

Experts have long wondered if phones played a role in the birthrate decline — which began in 2007, the same year that Apple introduced the iPhone — but until now there had not been hard evidence to prove it.

35-32: Chart

Mariners 6, Orioles 3 Happy Andrés Muñoz: Josh Naylor, .33 WPA Sad Andrés Muñoz: Patrick Wisdom, -.10 WPA Game thread comment of the day: I can hear this comment Side quest: What kind of music does each Mariner reliever make? For some reason I feel like Cooper Criswell makes Noah Kahan-style folk music.

Josh Naylor’s go-ahead grand slam propels Seattle Mariners past Orioles

Josh Naylor launched a go-ahead grand slam in the fifth inning to lift the Mariners to a 6-3 victory over the Orioles in the opener of their four-game series Monday at Camden Yards.

Making World Cup safe in Seattle will take hundreds of officers

Local and federal police officials have thought of every horrifying scenario possible. "If you can think of it, we probably have a contingency for how to respond to it."

WEST SEATTLE SCENE: Protesting in memory of Marjorie

(Photo courtesy Randy Winn) Thanks for the photo. Local activists gathered at 35th/Edmunds this afternoon for a protest that also served as a memorial. They’re carrying the torch lit by Marjorie Prince, who demonstrated at that corner for months – daily, while others joined her weekly for “Mondays with Marjorie” – until her recent death. […]

Photos: Mariners open four game series at Camden Yards

The other Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s US Senate race says candidacy was ‘my choice,’ not a sham

Alaska U_S_ Senate candidate Dan Sullivan acknowledges that sharing a name and party affiliation with the incumbent Republican gives him “an instant megaphone.”.