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The Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace of the United States issues a report alleging that aerospace manufacturer Boeing, long associated with the Seattle, Washington area, has been relocating much of its engineering work to non-unionized sites both in the US and abroad.
2025-01-22

Five members of a family, including three teenagers, are killed in a mass shooting in Fall City, Washington, United States.
2024-10-21

Three people are killed in a shooting at a Circle K store in Yakima, Washington, United States. The gunman later commits suicide in another location.
2023-01-24

The Seattle City Council unanimously votes to give Uber, Lyft, and other contract drivers the power to join trade unions. The Washington city becomes the first in the United States to do so. Seattle Mayor Ed Murray opposes the bill which can still become law without his signature. Court challenges are expected.
2015-12-14

Xi Jinping begins his first visit to the United States as President of the People's Republic of China, meeting with technology company leaders and representatives in Seattle, Washington.
2015-09-22

Health authorities in the United States say that 53 people in nine states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak. California is the worst affected state with 31 cases with the other states with cases include Arizona, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
2015-05-21

Eighteen people are still missing after a landslide Saturday in Oso, Snohomish County, in America's Washington state that has claimed at least three lives.
2014-03-23

Five people are killed in a shooting incident at an apartment complex in Federal Way, Washington, south of Seattle, United States.
2013-04-21

All 3 dead in US small plane crash in southwest Washington state, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Morton.
2010-10-26

United States cartoonist Molly Norris of Seattle, Washington, who developed Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, goes into hiding following a death threat from an Islamist radical.
2010-09-15