Seattle public schools have sued the tech giants behind TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, accusing them of creating a "mental health crisis among America's Youth." The 91-page lawsuit filed in a US district court states that tech giants exploit the addictive nature of social media, leading to rising anxiety, depression and thoughts of self-harm.

Rem Pitlick didn't play during the Wild's inaugural game against the Kraken. He was sidelined after testing positive for COVID-19 a day before the Oct.28 puck drop, an absence that lasted until a week ago. "I had a small little window in my hotel room to get some fresh air," said Pitlick, who was asymptomatic. "For four days I couldn't go outside. [But] I had a nice view from the hotel."

"Are we going to keep getting body bags or are we going to get what we actually need?" a Seattle Indian Health Board official asked.

Serving Seattle since 1986, all manner of Fremont’s beloved veggie goods like that of the vegan thai peanut stir fry and vegan BBQ beyond burger are coming to a wistful goodbye as Silence Heart Nest announced its permanent closure last week.

Seattle's NHL team has finally announced its name -- the Kraken -- as well as a color scheme: icy blue and navy blue with sharp red accents.

The so-called Capitol Hill Organized Protest area was taken over by protesters after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It was the site of at least four shootings last month.

A federal judge in Seattle has ordered local police to stop using tear gas, pepper spray and other force against nonviolent protesters, finding that the Seattle Police Department used excessive force against demonstrators. The Seattle Times reports U.S. District Judge Richard Jones concluded that protesters' right to free speech had been violated by the police department, citing video and other evidence.

Seattle residents will have more space to exercise and bike on as the city plans to permanently close 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic, the mayor announced Thursday. The Stay Healthy Streets initiative started in April to temporarily provide more space for residents to get out of the house and exercise while maintaining social distancing during the pandemic. Seattle Mayor Jenny A. Durkan said Thursday that the closures will be permanent.

The first diagnosis of the coronavirus in the United States occurred in mid-January, in a Seattle suburb not far from the hospital where Dr. Francis Riedo, an infectious-disease specialist, works. When he heard the patient’s details—a thirty-five-year-old man had walked into an urgent-care clinic with a cough and a slight fever, and told doctors that he’d just returned from Wuhan, China—Riedo said to himself, “It’s begun.”

Amazon is opening its doors at a new Amazon Go location in Seattle on Tuesday. The new 10,000-square-foot store will be run in the same way as its sister locations – offering a cashierless shopping experience for its customers. The major difference here is that this will be the first full-line Amazon Go grocery store of its kind.

Four months in, ridership on the $3.2M Via service is reportedly exceeding expectations.

While other cities are jailing drug users, Seattle has found another way.

How tech giants have transformed Seattle:

Seattle is grappling with a crisis of what is sometimes called "visible homelessness" — people who live in the street and struggle with mental illness or drug addiction. It's a population that often commits small crimes, such as disorderly conduct or shoplifting to pay for drugs. And public frustration is growing.

The deadly collapse is expected to bring scrutiny about the safety of the cranes in the city, where tech companies are expanding

Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees to its new campus just across Lake Washington, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire. Moving a large and critical team away from Amazon’s Seattle headquarters is a significant relocation of employees on its own, but it’s also a weighty symbolic gesture — the clearest sign yet that the tech giant is cooling on its hometown while doubling down on a neighboring city.

Seattle police said they rescued 26 women after a three-and-a-half-year human trafficking investigation into massage parlors across the city. KIRO's Allison Grande reports.

The case again raises questions about Amazon's bathroom policies, and describes “unyielding” scheduling rules.

A northern Idaho teen says he made $35,000 in four days by charging as much as $750 an hour to plow during the early-February snowstorms in Seattle. Eighteen-year-old David Holston owns a landscaping and snow plowing company in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was visiting his mom in the Seattle area for her birthday, and he brought along his plowing equipment thanks to a friend's suggestion.

The Seattle area, home to both Microsoft and Amazon, is a potent symbol of the affordable housing crisis that has followed the explosive growth of tech hubs. Now Microsoft, arguing that the industry has an interest and responsibility to help people left behind in communities transformed by the boom, is putting up $500 million to help address the problem.