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The last full week of summer looks to be sunny and dry before fall officially sets in next week.

Here's how to best handle a fly problem at home.

Moratoriums will allow legislators more time to evaluate and mandate guardrails on AI technologies.

Cooler weather sends homeowners outside to rake leaves, clear brush and close gardens after a long summer.

"These are not the people I interviewed," President Donald Trump said in assailing the Supreme Court after it rejected his push to restrict mail-in voting.

Colorado welcomed 96.8 million visitors in 2025, a record number in a record-setting decade.

Mayor Katie Wilson's anticipated gun violence reduction plan includes more police bike patrols in hot spots for crime and integrating violence interrupters into the 911 call center.

As cooler weather arrives and baking season begins, many home bakers are taking a different approach in the kitchen.

AI’s full impact on white-collar jobs has yet to be seen.

The Senate is set to vote on whether to move forward with legislation to create a new regulatory framework for cryptocurrency.

From serving in the Asiatic-Pacific theater in World War II to stabilizing the Exxon Valdez supertanker, the Chief has a storied history on the Columbia River.

The star of "The Weight," which opens this week in Seattle-area theaters, reminiscences about living in the city, his role in FX's "The Lowdown" and more.

The “Reacher” spinoff, premiering Wednesday on Prime Video, blends the best parts of “Reacher” with a clever handful of fresh ideas, writes our reviewer.

Renters have begun moving into new affordable housing in downtown Seattle, but the public agency operating the housing has paused some applications.

RANT to advertisers who run the same irritating commercial twice in a single commercial break.

The Partnership for a Competitive Puget Sound is the third high-profile task force this year – and a sign, perhaps, that political consensus is growing for economic solutions.

These "brats in a blanket" are smothered in a creamy mushroom sauce infused with a splash of beer — perfect for the beginning of Oktoberfest on Saturday.

UW Medicine performed 443 organ transplants in 2025.

The Cardinals, picked to finish last in the NFC West, were surprising winners in Week 1, beating the Chargers.

It was a strange sight on the I-90 floating bridge between Mercer Island and Seattle.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has met with a U.S. envoy to push for the lifting of the remaining U.S. sanctions against his country.

Parents and adult children may need to discuss more than a dozen healthcare and financial issues.

The discovery of seven women's bodies around Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, has sparked fear and a high-level police investigation.

An Israeli documentary about the civilian death toll from the war in Gaza has sparked a fierce backlash in Israel after being awarded the special jury prize at the Venice International Film Festival.

The U.S. has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space.

China has introduced new border control rules that could ban citizens from leaving the country if they engage in illegal activities threatening national or industrial security.

Authorities in Eswatini says that soldiers in the African nation have accidentally shot two U.S. government personnel last week.

An English judge has issued a scathing report blaming dysfunctional management for failing to protect babies at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven infants.

Quentin Tarantino continues to expand his career as an author.

First lady Melania Trump is set to visit northwestern North Carolina to talk to elementary school students, teachers and staff about how they’re using technology in the classroom.

FBI Director Kash Patel is set to return to Capitol Hill for an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas.”.

There’s a lot more to retirement planning than a high portfolio value.

The Congressional Black Caucus Institute is launching a multimillion-dollar campaign to engage lower-propensity voters in key districts before the midterm elections.

A Houthi spokesperson says Saudi airstrikes have left three people dead in the Yemen's southwest.

Japan's air force has lost contact with one of its surveillance drones during a flight off the northwestern coast.

One of the three serial killers involved in Australia’s notorious Bodies-in-Barrels murders is set to be released.

A fuel shortage in Yemen is hampering the movement of people fleeing the country’s escalating fighting and seeking safety across the Red Sea in Djibouti.

NATO jets have shot down a drone in Lithuanian airspace overnight.

A major inquiry into New Zealand man Tom Phillips, who hid his children in a forest for years before dying in a police shootout, criticizes officials for not taking the risks to the children seriously.

A major outage has hit the Dutch railway system and the company maintaining the rail infrastructure is treating it as possible sabotage.

A predominantly Muslim region in the southern Philippines has held its first elections for a regional parliament following years of delays, moving it closer to self-rule after decades of insurgency and violence.

Paris has been grappling with intense heat and illustrator Marina Antonova captures this in her series “Chronicles of a Heating Planet.”.

Thailand and Cambodia started talks Tuesday to resolve a sea border dispute under a U.N. maritime law agreement.

African rainmakers have long served as spiritual leaders in their communities, performing rituals to implore the deities for rainfall.

Taylor Swift made a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards ceremony in L.A.

Brazil’s Supreme Court is in the throes of an unprecedented crisis.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Europe seeking deeper ties with the EU as Canada’s trade war with President Donald Trump intensifies.

Making his fifth big-league start and coming off his best outing to date, Kade Anderson allowed five earned runs and put the Mariners behind early in a 6-4 loss to the Angels.

As the new school year kicks in, the debate around student AI use is raging.