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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson asked the city’s police chief to resign days after a shooting that killed and wounded innocent bystanders near the city’s iconic Space Needle.

Democrat Mary Peltola and incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan will advance in Alaska’s Senate primary, setting the state up to be one of the most fiercely contested races in November that could determine control of the US Senate.

The massive tank that spilled 900,000 gallons of caustic liquid into a paper mill courtyard “showed significant thinning” in an inspection nearly a year before its collapse killed 11 people, according to a report from the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

The region is showing what happens when challenges to tech and wealth converge, a contrast to booming San Francisco.

Few places exemplified Seattle's tech boom over the past two decades more than the suburbs east of the city, with their lakeside mansions and twisting

By A worker puts ballots in a counting machine at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on June 3, 2026, in City of Industry, California. (Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Kayla Bartkowski

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours before a key deadline for mail-in voting in the U.S. midterm electio Your free access has ended.

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours before a key deadline for mail-in voting in the U.S. midterm elections, states are bracing for late-breaking

WASHINGTON — Ahead of a key deadline for mail-in voting in the U.S. midterm elections, states braced for late developments in a legal battle over federal control of the process,

After years of benefiting from Big Tech employment, the Puget Sound area is becoming a test case for what happens when both are being challenged at once.