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Drivers who lose time in West Seattle Bridge detours will face more frustration in January when two southbound lanes of the First Avenue South bridge close for urgent repairs. The job will worsen traffic bottlenecks along the main alternative to the cracked West Seattle highrise, which was closed March 23 because of runaway shear cracks. […]
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After we put out a call for Seattle Times readers to tell us about personal projects they’ve been working on during the pandemic, we received a flood of submissions — many more than we could include in the initial article. So we decided to continue featuring some of the projects, one at a time. We […]
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WEST LINN, Ore. (AP) — West Linn police say they’re investigating criminal allegations against former West Linn Dr. David Farley, whose Oregon medical license was revoked this month amid patient complaints of sexual abuse. Four people this month filed a civil lawsuit against Farley, alleging he groped and fondled them during medical exams. The Oregonian/OregonLive […]
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — More than 35,000 chickens are to be culled at a Dutch farm after a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu was discovered there, the agriculture ministry announced Thursday. The outbreak came despite the government last week ordering all birds on poultry farms to be kept indoors after tests confirmed a […]
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Search teams have looked in western Alaska for more than a week without success for seven boaters who went missing while seal hunting. Quinhagak Tribal Police Chief John Peter said a 22-foot (6.7-meter) aluminum boat with three men left the village Oct. 17 and headed to the community of Bethel, where […]
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Gatherings are a big reason behind the rise in cases in Washington, the state’s health officer said yesterday. The number of people infected and hospitalized rose between mid-September and mid-October, according to the state’s latest situation report. In particular, South King County is seeing high rates of positive tests compared to the rest of the county. […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a scolding assessment of COVID-19 relief talks on Thursday, blaming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin for failing to produce answers to her demands for Democratic priorities as part of an almost $2 trillion aid package. Pelosi lobbed her latest public relations volley with a letter to Mnuchin that […]
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Every weekday through Nov. 3, we’ll be posting live updates on candidates, voting and other political news in Washington and across the U.S. What to know in Washington: What to know across the U.S.: Live Updates: 9:39 am Options dwindling for U.S. voters diagnosed with COVID-19 as Election Day nears Linda Harrison of Austin tested […]
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A lab experiment aimed at fixing defective DNA in human embryos shows what can go wrong with this type of gene editing and why leading scientists say it’s too unsafe to try. In more than half of the cases, the editing caused unintended changes, such as loss of an entire chromosome or big chunks of […]
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco is reopening more businesses this week, thanks to low coronavirus case numbers that have allowed the city to move into California’s most permissive tier. It means more people can go back to offices, dine indoors and visit museums. But businesses and those residents who haven’t joined an exodus out […]
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