East Madison Street is closed between 32nd and 33rd Avenue as officers try to negotiate with the barricaded suspect.

We are tracking two shootings in Seattle Friday morning. In the Washington Park neighborhood, a suspect is barricaded in a ...

Seattle police are negotiating with a barricaded suspect after a woman was shot and officers were fired upon in the ...

Rico, a 9-year-old prehensile-tailed Brazilian porcupine who has been delighting visitors at the Cincinnati Zoo for years, loves to eat, especially corn on the cob. Border Patrol finds massive ...

(The Center Square) – The Seattle Police Department is seeing recruitment efforts improve as it hired 500% more officers in the first four months of 2025 than the same time span last year.

SEATTLE — Seattle police are investigating a hit-and-run crash involving a red motorcycle in south Seattle Friday evening. Police said that at around 8:20 p.m., officers responded to reports of ...

Callie Craighead, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's press secretary, noted that the Seattle Police Department had 175 total lateral applicants in 2024, with 84 of those candidates passing the basic ...

The Washington State Auditor is investigating a rather odd situation of missing police firearms in Seattle. These aren't just firearms missing out of the evidence room, which would be horrible in ...

Seattle's top cop has been dismissed and reassigned to a new role amid hiring challenges as well as mounting lawsuits against the police department alleging gender and racial discrimination.

An aptitude test used by the Seattle Police Department (SPD) to screen applicants is being questioned as a potential reason the city is struggling to recruit new and experienced officers.

SEATTLE — Seattle police officers would receive retroactive wage increases going back to 2021 under a tentative agreement between the city and Seattle Police Officers' Guild. The agreement ...

Hiring bonuses. Despite significant investments from the city to recruit and retain officers, the Seattle police force has reached the lowest staffing numbers in nearly 70 years. The Seattle ...