Shon Barnes, who started his new job as chief of the Seattle Police Department on Friday, has big goals for 2025, including fully establishing his command staff within 100 days. In December, Barnes ...

Shon Barnes has begun his first day as the chief of the Seattle Police Department.

New Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes chose the look of a civilian executive as he was introduced to the city with media interviews and press releases this week. Barnes has promised to hit the ...

Newly elected Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank would have been fired from his previous job at the Seattle Police Department, a disciplinary report states.

The Seattle Police Department's new boss will be sworn into the role Friday. Shon Barnes is the former chief in Madison, Wisconsin, a much smaller city than Seattle with a police department half as ...

A new report accuses newly elected Sheriff Keith Swank of making "disrespectful" and "biased, inflammatory" social media posts when he was still working for SPD.

Auburn and its police department must consider the culture that predisposed police leadership to fail to critically assess ...

The 29-year-old woman had a first appearance hearing Friday, when a judge determined there was probable cause for her arrest and set her bail at $3 million.

The death of a 14-year-old son at a South Seattle home has prompted an investigation led by the Seattle Police Department.

SEATTLE — A 29-year-old woman was arrested in connection to the death of her teenage son Thursday. When Seattle Police Department officers responded to a domestic violence call at the victim's ...

All politics is local,” former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill is often quoted as saying, reprising the 1932 axiom credited to Associated Press Washington Bureau Chief Byron Price.

Richard Sitzlack confessed to fatally stabbing his roommate in 2023 but was never charged. Thirteen months later, he was ...