Content advisory: This story includes descriptions of sexual assault. Resources for survivors are available here. The schools investigated about a fifth of these reports through internal systems.

A confused 38-year-old father in Kentucky rarely crawled out of bed. A conservation volunteer in Iowa lost feeling in his hands and feet. A 5-year-old girl in South King County doubled over in pain ...

For years, the complaints languished with Washington state education officials. A therapist emailed about a teenage boy with severe autism, who had wailed for hours inside a locked room in her school, ...

Carrie Davidson, Lillian’s great-granddaughter, runs her hands over the faded photograph as she sits on a sofa in her Auburn home. She keeps it in a plain wooden box along with pine cones and a broken ...

In its ambitious rise to become one of the largest hospital systems in the country, Providence Health & Services struck a deal in 2011 to claim a Seattle-area rival, Swedish Health. Providence added ...

It started during the pandemic. Grand promises, made with increasing frequency, to safely house and shelter homeless people amid the threat of the coronavirus and inflow of federal money. Seattle City ...

Each year, Washington motorists flood state government with complaints about having to buy new license plates every seven years. The discarded plates still gleam like new. People suspect the forced ...

The youngsters knew their sport could be dangerous, even deadly. But for the junior team at the Vancouver (Wash.) Rifle and Pistol Club, the peril that emerged from their sport didn’t come from a ...

It’s urban, suburban and industrial. At just over 20 miles long, Sound Transit’s Link light rail connects more than a dozen diverse communities with 16 stations in King County. From the University of ...

NO RESTAURANT is essential. Dining out is a luxury, obviously. And new restaurants are opening in newly luxurious Seattle at an overwhelming pace — hundreds over the past year. With so much novelty, ...

ELWHA RIVER — The Elwha watershed is booming with new life, after the world’s largest dam removal. The first concrete went flying in September 2011, and Elwha Dam was out the following March. Glines ...

For Seattle music, 2019 will go down as The Year of Brandi Carlile. Yes, our Grammy-stormin’ folk rock ‘n’ roller’s leap into the industry’s top circles was one of the bigger stories of the year. But ...