Nala has a nose for electronics. But she’s not your run-of-the-mill tech geek with a passion for gear and gadgets. A specially trained electronic storage detection (ESD) K9, Nala is… Read More
The Redmond (Wash.) Police Department is deploying a new tool in its fight against illicit drugs. The agency announced Tuesday that it’s using a handheld narcotics analyzer called TruNarc that… Read More
On Tuesday the Seattle City Council will vote on a resolution asking the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to recall Kia and Hyundai models that lack engine immobilizing, anti-theft technology.… Read More
A 27-year-old engineer who joined Microsoft last year pleaded not guilty Thursday morning to a charge of attempted second-degree murder in the alleged unprovoked, random stabbing of another employee the… Read More
Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison on Monday filed a lawsuit against Kia and Hyundai, alleging that the automakers failed to install standard anti-theft technology in many of their vehicles, resulting… Read More
Early on the morning of Jan. 14, two thieves hit four separate retail outlets in Kent, Wash., by backing a stolen Audi SUV through their front doors. This included GameBound,… Read More
The Seattle City Council’s passage this week of a $7.4 billion city budget for 2023 will not include funds sought by Mayor Bruce Harrell for gunshot detection technology. It’s the… Read More
Quick-spreading claims on social media over the weekend about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area have been refuted by law enforcement officials and debunked by fact checkers. A… Read More
During a more than 30-year professional photojournalism career, John Moore has documented the struggles of people across 70 countries on six continents. He’s covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq;… Read More
By some statistical measures, Seattle’s downtown is back. Residents have returned in pre-pandemic numbers. Tourism, certainly at Pike Place Market, resembles its crowded former self. And traffic is nearly as… Read More
Citizen, the app that allows people to monitor and participate in public safety watching and reporting, is officially expanding to Seattle after testing in the city for a few months.… Read More
Editor’s note: The story has been updated to reflect comments from council members Andrew Lewis, Lisa Herbold and former council president and current mayoral candidate Bruce Harrell. In a sharply… Read More
As part of a continued effort to show that it’s serious about cracking down on counterfeit goods sold on its platform, Amazon said Monday that it blocked more than 10… Read More
The killing of eight people, including six Asian women, near Atlanta on Tuesday has sparked a wave of grief and outrage across the U.S. and calls for an end to… Read More
A surge in online shopping during the pandemic could be an extra gift to so-called “porch pirates” looking to nab packages during the peak holiday season. One report from north… Read More
When Dave Crosby, one of the co-founders of Seattle-based Wyze Labs, was the victim of a robbery this summer, he turned to his own company’s technology for help in solving… Read More
A Bothell, Wash., man whose wife was previously a finance manager at Amazon, has pleaded guilty to securities fraud for his role in an insider trading scheme involving the couple… Read More
Federal officials have seized six fraudulent websites that were part of an online scheme to deceive customers who were looking to set up new Amazon Echo devices. The U.S. Attorneys… Read More
Prosecutors are citing a series of profane and derogatory WhatsApp messages as evidence against four brothers charged with defrauding Amazon of at least $19 million by abusing the Seattle tech… Read More
A Florida teenager faces 30 felony charges related to a July 15 scam in which he hacked into the Twitter accounts of prominent users such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos,… Read More
Mukund Mohan, a Seattle-area tech executive who spent time at Amazon and Microsoft, has been charged by federal prosecutors with seeking over $5.5 million in loans through the U.S. government’s… Read More
The deadly shooting Wednesday night in downtown Seattle is prompting tech companies in the area to implement new precautions to protect employees, amid larger questions about the safety of the… Read More
Police in Bellevue, Wash., arrested a 17-year-old suspected of two armed robberies of victims targeted using the online marketplace OfferUp this past weekend. The victims say they responded to OfferUp… Read More
Gareth Small seems like any of the many thousands of people who have moved to Seattle in recent years to work in the tech industry. The software engineer puts in… Read More
A 27-year-old woman walking a dog as part of her work for the Seattle-based pet-sitting startup Rover was killed in Washington, D.C., this week in what police are calling a… Read More
Is Ring’s collaboration with police departments a public benefit or a privacy concern? That’s the issue raised by an announcement from the Amazon-owned smart doorbell maker, in which it touts… Read More
A Seattle man called the police on July 2 to report a crime. Three men in a LimePod vehicle attempted to run the caller over and threw rocks at him,… Read More
On July 13, 1967, Susan Galvin was found dead in a parking garage elevator at Seattle Center. The 20-year-old administrative employee at the Seattle Police Department, who moved to Seattle… Read More
A large police presence Thursday at Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution founded by the late Paul Allen, turned out to be because a person broke in and… Read More
Law enforcement agencies across the country have found few answers when it comes to dealing with the dangerous and sometimes deadly practice of “swatting,” when a fake emergency call is… Read More
