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The popular statistic that claims 500 million plastic straws are used in America every day was created by a nine-year-old fourth-grader in 2011.

Voters in two tech-heavy Silicon Valley cities will have the chance to vote in November on drastically spiking business taxation by charging a new per-employee tax.

Starbucks took the Seattle City Council to task on Tuesday after Monday’s passage of a tax bill that will cost the coffee giant and other big businesses like Amazon millions. 

A recent proposal from the Seattle City Council to raise $75 million in taxes on the city’s largest employers has had some construction workers fed up at the prospect that they might lose out on a major construction project.

On the same day a puffy public relations piece about Amazon’s pampering of 6,000 dogs made the rounds through our compliant media, so did a report about warehouse employees being forced to urinate into bottles in order to keep up with their respective work quotas without sanction.

Three suspected thieves got an unpleasant surprise after they ran into police officers while on their way out of a Seattle, Washington, Costco on Wednesday.

Alaska Airlines announced Thursday it had grounded a Seattle-based pilot after his female co-pilot filed a lawsuit claiming that the male captain raped and drugged her on a June 2017 work trip.

Delvonn Heckard, one of the men who accused former Seattle Democrat Mayor Ed Murray of sexually abusing him when he was a teenager, was found dead in a Washington motel room on Friday. He was 47.

Authorities are reporting multiple fatalities after an Amtrak train carrying 78 passengers and five crew members derailed off a bridge onto Interstate 5 Monday morning.

Progressive activists are forcing public schools to teach and practice gender ideology in the name of civil rights, but more American students and their parents are saying “no” to the demands made on behalf of a minority who claim to be the opposite sex.

A new hotel which caters to members of “The Resistance” will open its doors in 2018 just blocks away from the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.

A gay coffee shop owner in Seattle kicked a Christian pro-life group out of his coffee shop because he felt offended by their presence, according to video footage of the incident.

City councils are being harassed to approve new apartment developments by residents who are angry about spiking rents and screaming “Yes in My Back Yard” YIMBY) to generate competition to rein in greedy landlords.

Seattle’s Democratic Mayor Ed Murray announced his resignation on Tuesday, hours after a fifth man accused him of child sex abuse.

Actress and abortion champion Martha Plimpton is making headlines over her comments to a cheering pro-abortion crowd when she said her “best abortion” was at a Seattle Planned Parenthood facility.

A growing number of people on social media are calling for Seattle’s statue of Communist A growing number of people on social media are calling for the removal of Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin’s statue in Seattle. Vladimir Lenin to be removed.

A mysterious gray aircraft has spent nearly two weeks flying in circles over Seattle, and we still don’t know exactly why.

An illegal alien protected and given temporary amnesty by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is now accused of raping a woman in a Seattle suburb with a sanctuary city policy.

In order to beef up their varsity rosters, some coaches seek out talented homeless high school athletes. By the nature of being homeless, the teenagers are allowed to matriculate at schools anywhere in the country.

A Seattle-sponsored analysis of the city’s $3 per hour minimum wage hike has found that it cost the average low-skilled worker $1,500 a year due to employers slashing hours.

A new study from the University of Washington says that Seattle’s hike in its minimum wage is hurting the very workers it was supposed to help.

New study shows that the attempt to help conditions of workers in Seattle largely backfired.

LinkedIn’s Workforce Report for June found that of the 20 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, Silicon Valley has plunged to 12th place in job attractiveness.

Grief-stricken Chris Cornell fans left flowers at memorials across Seattle for the musician whose forceful, somber songs helped cement the city’s place in rock history.

Tuesday on Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” co-host Skip Bayless reacted to Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll saying the team was interested in signing either Colin Kaepernick or Robert Griffin III to back up quarterback Russell Wilson after their current

A single-engine plane crashed over a busy street near Seattle Tuesday afternoon, causing damage to several vehicles and power lines but no serious injuries to the passengers, officials said.

Taxpayers in Seattle will soon be paying for illegal aliens to receive legal services against deportation charges in federal court.

A lawsuit alleges Seattle mayor Ed Murray, who has defended the city’s policy of refusing to turn over illegal alien criminals to federal authorities, raped drug-addicted, teenaged boys.

The sanctuary city of Seattle announced on Wednesday it is suing the federal government to block a federal funding loss over its refusal to cooperate with immigration authorities.

Once hailed as an answer to both traffic jams and global warming, Seattle’s troubled bike-sharing system, Pronto, is now slated for dismantling, city officials say.

A Seattle woman fought off a violent assault by a would-be attacker in a park’s ladies bathroom. The man, with an extensive criminal history, attacked her earlier this month while she was on a 10-mile jog.

Vandals scrawled graffiti claiming the Holocaust was “fake history” on an exterior wall of a Seattle synagogue, leading the rabbi to urge President Donald Trump to more forcefully denounce a wave of anti-Semitic incidents in recent months.

Two teachers are planning to open a preschool in Columbia City in Seattle, Washington, that will have a curriculum focused on the stories of people of color.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in court filings that a detained illegal immigrant covered by former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has previous gang relations.

An illegal immigrant covered by former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Child Arrivals (DACA) program was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents after they said the man is a “self-admitted gang member.”

“Health officials are recommending that 240 people at Renton’s Hazen High School get tested for tuberculosis (TB) after someone at the school was diagnosed with the infectious disease,” the Seattle Times reported on January 12.