Articles by HR Smith, The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper ...

RIP Sen. Bill Ramos: Washington State Sen. Bill Ramos (D-Issaquah) died suddenly over the weekend during a trail run. He was 69. Ramos leaves behind two children and his wife, King County ...

First and foremost, the PDA has worked diligently with Virginia Inn for nearly a year in hopes of finding a path forward—we ...

The hospital is declining to provide gender-affirming surgery for transgender patients under 19 again, according to a patient ...

It’s time to dig your ballot out of your pile of unpaid bills and Safeway coupons. We’ve got a special election coming, and ...

On Wednesday, the Washington State Senate passed HB 1971, a first of its kind bill from House Rep. Nicole Macri that compels ...

In 2015, city council chambers swelled with hundreds of Hookah Lounge supporters and detractors, there to shout down, up, and ...

Vivian McCall, Emily Nokes, Megan Seling, and Hannah Murphy Winter helped Drippy with their research.

Five beg buttons—three in the University District, one close to South Lake Union, and another in Wedgwood—were hacked to ...

Another Hate Crime: On Friday, a man was arrested in Fremont on suspicion of a hate crime. He allegedly threw large rocks at ...

Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied in more than 1,200 locations across the country in the largest ...

Your husband was a high-functioning, philandering drunk for the first fifteen years — careful to cheat only with unhappily ...