SEATTLE — Seattle’s fentanyl crisis is impossible to hide from public view, with open-air drug use, rising overdose deaths and struggling addicts highlighting the challenges facing city leaders and ...

Seattle prosecutors will seek to divert more public drug use and possession cases away from court under a new city policy, but officials say police will continue making drug-related arrests. The big ...

(The Center Square) – The Seattle Police Department has clarified that officers will continue to make arrests for drug-related charges when probable cause exists, with the City Attorney’s Office then ...

This means that city attorney Erika Evans will take charging decisions out of police officers’ hands and leave open-air prosecution decisions to the diversion program first. There can, and will, be ...

This year, Seattle officials are putting a stronger emphasis on services for people arrested for public drug use. That’s after drug possession arrests and charges climbed last year under the city’s ...

SEATTLE — Public access to a popular park on Seattle’s Beacon Hill has been cut off as city crews begin renovations and repair damage caused by repeated homeless encampments, ongoing drug activity and ...

Four parks on Beacon Hill have been swallowed by an open-air drug market. Hundreds of people are living and using within them right now. A neighborhood is being threatened, intimidated, and ignored.