Seattle Police’s Beds for Kids program

As climate change brings longer periods of hot weather, the associated heat-related health risks also increase. While being in air conditioning is the simplest way to prevent heat illness and death, ...

Five shootings in Renton and Seattle left one man dead and eight people injured. The impact extends to witnesses, loved ones and the community as a whole.

If it were up to Jacques Wallace, no Chicagoan would find a loved one dead of heat stress, without air conditioning, ever again.

Council Bill 120389 will go to the full council for a vote on Aug. 16. The measure, which is sponsored by Councilmember Lisa Herbold, will potentially allow the Seattle Police Department to use ...

The council also recently deemed Seattle a “sanctuary” for those seeking abortion, prohibiting Seattle police from cooperating ... noting that about 50% of hospital beds are in religiously ...

Illinois offers residents help with heating and energy bills through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program. But applications aren’t taken from June through August, when most heat waves occur.

She is lying on the family bed when her owner ... of crazy cat ladies,” Ranquet says with a chuckle. She grew up in Seattle with her sister and her mother, surrounded by horses, dogs and ...

Horrors detailed in testimony to lawmakers and investigators include holding kids in solitary confinement ... priorities — building a separate 20-bed treatment facility for juveniles with ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Turning around South Carolina’s chronically dangerous juvenile prisons is now the job of a prosecutor who sent some of those children to jail. Department of Juvenile ...