Seattle Police say they are working with the FBI to investigate a hate crime attack after a transgender person was beaten unconscious on their way home from a fundraiser for victims of the Orlando shooting this week, the Associated Press reports.

Earlier this afternoon, a man in Seattle decided to climb up a tree, throw apples at the surrounding medics, and otherwise refuse any attempt at aid. Twelve hours later, he is showing no signs of letting up. In fact, it looks like our Man in Tree has even begun to build himself a home.

It’s been a long day (terror, politics, grief, my chicken sandwich had a piece of chicken bone in it) and this gentleman from Seattle agrees, which is why he’s gone berserk and up a tree, and man, he just won’t come down.

Police are responding to a shooting at a homeless encampment in south Seattle known as “The Jungle,” KIRO 7 reports. Five people have been shot. The gunman is still at large.

If it has long been your wish to stand and marvel with your own two eyes at a brick wall coated in thousands and thousands of wads of chewed gum, do it soon—Seattle’s famous Gum Wall at Pike Place Market will be steam-blasted clean later this month.

A “Ride the Ducks” land-water tour vehicle—usually known for careening around major cities in a zany manner while tour groups blow duck whistles at pedestrians—met with disaster when it collided with a charter tour bus around 11 a.m. Thursday on Seattle’s Aurora Bridge. There were 50 injuries—12 of them critical—and…

School was scheduled to start Wednesday for more than 50,000 Seattle students, but they’re all staying home or heading back to day camps because Seattle Public Schools has asked teachers to work longer hours, with less recess, for a minimal increase in pay. The teachers, who have gone six years without even a…

Seattle is dead and Amazon killed it.

Ah, the crushing jaws of commercial development. Even the most twee and “independent” of cities will be eaten alive by it yet, and Seattle—no matter how many steampunk vegan scones you’d bet in its favor—is no exception. Take the late Edith Macefield’s fixer-upper, a house that looks like the one from that movie Up.…

Authorities in Seattle are searching for the dumbass that crashed a two-pound drone above the city’s Pride parade on Sunday, knocking a 25-year-old woman out cold, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.

Embedded above is a seven-and-a-half-minute video of Seattle police trying to wrestle a writhing, shirtless, hammer-wielding man who got stuck upside down in a basketball hoop this past weekend.

A day of peaceful May Day demonstrations in Seattle was followed by violence on Friday, CNN reports, with black bloc protesters hurling bricks, wrenches and burning objects at police and officers responding with pepper spray and flash bang grenades.

When a suburban Seattle man's sister asked him to watch her boyfriend's two-year old, he naturally agreed. And at first, it was no big deal.

After less than 10 minutes in the air, an Alaska Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday when a napping baggage handler woke up in the plane's cargo hold and began banging and screaming.

The beaked and eight-tentacled monsters with which we enjoy a tenuously shared existence on this Earth are no longer content to sit placidly in their tanks and their oceans. Cephalopods the world over are rising up and out of the water, from Australia to the Pacific Northwest, and no land-dweller is safe.