Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News

Seattle firefighters don't know yet what caused a blazing two-alarm fire that filled the SODO district with acrid smoke early Thursday.

OLYMPIA -- Attorney General Rob McKenna is asking the Legislature to require training for local governments to help them comply with the Open Public Meetings Act.

Interstate 5 closures in Centralia strand hundreds of travelers.

The rain that caused widespread flooding in Western Washington had largely tapered off by early Thursday. Some provisional precipitation totals in inches as measured by National Weather Service aut...

While the rains tapered off, many Western Washington rivers were still spewing over their banks at record levels Thursday, flooding homes and causing a traffic nightmare on major freeways.

A stretch of Rainier Avenue South was buried early Thursday after a landslide caused by the severe weather.

Amtrak has suspended train service between Portland and Seattle due to mudslides.

The Red Cross has opened emergency evacuation shelters in the following locations for Western Washington residents affected by rising floodwaters:

Thousands had to flee their homes Wednesday in the face of raging rivers.

Angry parents and students on Wednesday protested school closure recommendations for the next school year, but few realized that at least one more building closure is likely on the horizon.