Another day, another set of parents investigated for letting their kids walk home from a nearby park. And this time, letting your 10-year-old walk home with his six-year-old sister has an official name: Free-range parenting. » 1/16/15 7:20pm 1/16/15 7:20pm

House of Cards returns in all its cynical, scheming, soapy glory on February 27. And yesterday, amid all the Golden Globes excitement, Netflix dropped this new trailer, which packs a lot into less than a minute. It's mostly grave stares into the middle distance, climaxing with this exchange: "We're murderers, Frank."… » 1/12/15 10:10am 1/12/15 10:10am

You won't believe what happens when these nanas start puffing, puffing and passing. (Okay, you totally will.) (Spoiler alert: No one gets a panic attack, but these grannies can't stop laughing. It's just that weed is so so fun!) » 11/19/14 6:10pm 11/19/14 6:10pm

A district court judge has issued a temporary injunction barring the disclosure of the personal information of employees of a Washington strip club after a man attempted to obtain the info so he could pray for them. Right. » 10/25/14 4:00pm 10/25/14 4:00pm

Yesterday, a freshman student at Marysville-Pilchuck High School, just north of Seattle opened fire in the school cafeteria, killing one girl and wounding four other students, two boys and two girls currently in critical condition, before taking his own life. » 10/25/14 12:17pm 10/25/14 12:17pm

18-year-old Tyler Smith has been charged with the rape of two women. He is scheduled to face trial in December, but in the meantime is continuing to play on the football team of Hoquiam High School in Washington state. One might expect this to be yet another story of a winning football team being more important than… » 10/15/14 3:30pm 10/15/14 3:30pm

Wooden dildo/cat armor online marketplace Etsy, has taken a firm stance on the sale of products that contain the name or logo of the Washington Redskins: NOPE. » 9/13/14 1:02pm 9/13/14 1:02pm

Authorities are investigating a prosecutor in Washington state for allegedly helping a criminal she was in a relationship with elude police. » 8/29/14 9:50am 8/29/14 9:50am

Washington pot retailers are finally getting to open up shop after legalizing marijuana in 2012, and already, they're worried about running out of product. While Colorado's retail stores opened up in January, racking up around $114 million within the first four months, Washington's been facing some hurdles in getting… » 7/06/14 4:20pm 7/06/14 4:20pm

A Washington man was arrested for exposing himself on the highway and then hiding in the bushes with his pants off outside a Burger King. Don't worry, though, he wasn't doing anything creepy. He just had his pants off because he was itchy from a very recent and very thorough waxing. » 5/24/14 1:27pm 5/24/14 1:27pm

Washington's thriving coffee porn industry is starting to piss off the neighbors. If an ordinary sense of shame doesn't prevent people from driving to a place where a half-naked woman serves you coffee, the police are about to try... » 1/28/14 6:29pm 1/28/14 6:29pm

Famously tangerine-faced House Speaker John Boehner doesn't live in Washington year-round; he rents. And his landlord is a lobbyist for a tanning bed company because God loves you very, very much and wants you to have a joyous holiday season of rueful ironic chortling. » 12/18/13 1:45pm 12/18/13 1:45pm

As of today, gay marriage has been legal in Washington state for exactly one year. Has Seattle morphed into an Orwellian dystopia where weeping heterosexual couples are broken up and reassigned to same-sex partners? Are weddings now an underground affair, conducted under the cover of darkness? Let's check in. » 12/06/13 11:00am 12/06/13 11:00am

Conservatives can't seem to be able to get their story straight on the government shutdown — some are claiming it's No Big Deal, while others are wringing their hands and wailing that it's the Obamapocalypse and that soon we'll all be personally bludgeoned to a pulp by bureaucrats wielding death panels. Both groups… » 10/02/13 4:30pm 10/02/13 4:30pm

A reproductive rights-related bill that wouldn't shut down every Planned Parenthood clinic in the state, make women wait approximately 10,000 years to get an abortion or otherwise effectively overturn Roe v. Wade miraculously passed the Washington State House and might very well pass the Senate. It's almost as if the… » 4/02/13 10:25am 4/02/13 10:25am

Now that same-sex couples can get married in Washington state, some famous Washingtonians are sealing the deal. One of the first up was Dan Savage. He and husband Terry Miller tied the knot, and don't they look dapper? And don't you wish you were there? I'm in love with love! » 12/10/12 10:00am 12/10/12 10:00am

The Republican Party might as well rename itself The Sausage Party. After a series of very important meetings, House of Representatives' majority party has chosen the legislators who will occupy the all-important roles of committee chairs during the next session. And, to the surprise of no one, every person they… » 11/28/12 11:50am 11/28/12 11:50am

John Koster, a Washington state GOP House Candidate, says, "the rape thing" does not excuse abortions. Once again, the RAPE THING DOES NOT EXCUSE ABORTIONS. » 10/31/12 9:13pm 10/31/12 9:13pm