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After pandemic slow-downs, Seattle's tourism and its economy are improving, according to recently released numbers from the Seattle Historic Waterfront Association. On Monday, KOMO spoke to Ivar's president and Waterfront Association volunteer Bob Donegan about the trends. "We've also seen a significant increase in the number of visitors to the waterfront over the last 6 months...

A California appeals court ruled against an effort by San Francisco to ban four suspected drug dealers from a 50-square-block area in a city neighborhood rife with drug dealing and drug use. The ruling issued Friday is part of a case that started in 2020 when San Francisco sued 28 alleged drug dealers who frequent the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods to try and clean up the area that h...

The resource-strapped Portland Police Bureau (PPB) reportedly took more than 20 minutes to respond when alleged antifa members assaulted a Saturday campaign event near police headquarters in downtown Portland. By the time officers had "sufficient resources" to establish a crime scene near Southwest 3rd and Main Street, the black-clad demonstrators had already dispersed after hurling smok...

A Dollar Tree manager is no longer with the company after posting a sign at a Bremen, Indiana, store warning that it wouldn't hire Generation Z workers. The sign complained that the store was forced to close after two young workers quit.  "My 2 new cashiers quit because I said their boyfriends couldn't stand here for their entire shift," according to a photo of the hand-written...

The father of a child who was hit with pepper spray during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Seattle has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging assault and negligence by police officers.  Their use of force sparked national outrage after video and photos showed medics and other protesters pouring water and milk on the screaming child’s face to relieve his suffering, the Seattle Times...

A part of Railroad Drive in Sacramento is effectively closed to the public. “I let them know, ‘Hey, the game is over. We’re taking back our street,” said Rich Eaton, who barricaded the road.  One of the property owners on the block put up barricades and paid a security guard to, for the most part, only allow in people who work on the street. “It was like walking through a working meth lab to get t...

A Denny Park building owned by the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department was vandalized last weekend, prompting angry condemnations from the city and others as a result. According to authorities, Seattle police responded around 10:30 p.m. last Saturday to the scene, which is located off of Dexter Avenue N., for reports of graffiti along with damage to the building's windows and city vehicle...

In Multnomah County, a major barricade between getting unhoused people off the street and into permanent housing is a lack of available property. While past ballot measures have created funds to build new housing for people leaving homelessness, the number of available apartments doesn't meet the current need across the metro region. To address this dearth of available public housing, Multnom...

Seattle City Attorney Ann Davidson sent a request to the Seattle Municipal Court asking that frequent offenders who meet the criteria for Davison's High Utilizer Initiative be excluded from Community Court.  Davison's High Utilizer Initiative identified 118 individuals who are responsible for 2,400 criminal cases over the past five years in Seattle, according to a release from her office...

When it comes to the great state of Florida, nothing surprises us anymore. Gators could fly, the Everglades could freeze, and Disney could be cut off from the political teet (OK, that last one actually happened), and we would hardly bat an eye. So great is its capacity for chaos. So long has it reveled in it. And yet we can’t help be shocked by this story out of Delray Beach, where 74-year-old Rob...

The UFC color commentator Joe Rogan has made an enormous name for himself with his infamous JRE podcast. This podcast not only changed Rogan’s life, but also paved the way for other podcasts. The game-changer podcast moved from YouTube to Spotify; It resulted when Spotify and Rogan made a humongous 200 million dollar deal for exclusive rights for the streaming of the podcast. This year, the podcas...

CNN+ will end its historic run today, Thursday, April 28, just four weeks after its disastrous premiere. If that’s not humiliating enough, CNN+ is shutting down two days earlier than scheduled. Originally, we were told the shutdown date would be April 30. Why would CNN+ be shut down two days early? It’s probably because no one is watching, and putting all the time and money into broadcasting is li...

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill Tuesday explicitly prohibiting the use of nonbinary gender markers on state birth certificates, a ban experts say is the first of its kind in the nation. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content l...

Intelligence officials had gathered to brief select members of Congress on future threats to U.S. elections when a key lawmaker in the room, No. 3 House Republican Elise Stefanik of New York, tried to move the discussion to a new topic: Hunter Biden’s laptop. Stefanik, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, asked the officials during the April 1 briefing whether they had any evidence of R...

Police in Seattle are searching for a homeless woman accused of a violent attack on a homeless man who was stabbed and shot during an assault that was captured on a surveillance camera. Prosecutors said Arias Beckett-Sumpay, 28, has been charged with felony assault but she remained at large as of Friday evening. The violent attack occurred just days before Mayor Bruce Harrell publicly identified t...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Cyber Division issued a statement last week warning of potential ransomware attacks against the agricultural industry as more than a dozen food processing plants across the United States suffered damage from mysterious fires. “Cyber actors may perceive [agricultural] cooperatives as lucrative targets with a willingness to pay due to the timesensitive rol...

A woman super-glued herself to the service counter at the Starbucks cafe for the company’s Seattle headquarters on Wednesday morning, as part of a PETA protest against surcharges for vegan alternatives to milk products. Customers left the building after protesters arrived, with Seattle police arriving around 11 a.m. Around that time, law enforcement began attempts to dissolve the glue, before a li...

Is former President Donald Trump poised to return to Twitter? The social media platform permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account last year, two days after the Jan. 6 attacks on the United States Capitol, citing inflammatory tweets that risked “further incitement of violence.” The account had been Trump’s direct line of unfiltered communication to the public, through which the president h...

Google has rolled out a new “inclusive language” function that is intended to steer its users away from what it deems to be politically incorrect words, like “landlord” and “mankind.” Google Docs introduced the “woke” feature this month that shows pop-up warnings to people typing in words or phrases considered to be non-inclusive, such as “policeman,” “fireman” or “housewife.” The online word proc...

Residents in the liberal Bay Area told Fox News they're ready to boot San Francisco's progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin, who's facing a recall election. "Let me see … bang, bang, bang, you break something and … out the next day," said Johnny, who works the docks at Fisherman’s Wharf. "Yeah, the DA has got to go." "That’s how a lot of people feel ab...

Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, an increase of 56% from the previous year, driven mainly by drug overdoses, authorities said. The findings released Friday in a report from the county’s Department of Public Health showed that despite initial fears, the virus itself was not the main culprit in deaths among California’s largest-in-the-nat...

While one company competing for the neighborhood’s grocery dollars is enjoying its Capitol Hill honeymoon on Broadway, a chain with a longer running connection here is experiencing a few bumps in the relationship. In its latest move alienating customers here, QFC is suddenly putting its most sought after merchandise behind lock and key. With new security systems on the Broadway Market store’s free...

At sunset on the last Monday of March, CNN stars gathered for a gala on the 101st floor of a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper to celebrate the launch of CNN+, the streaming service that was supposed to take the network into the digital future. Ethan Hawke, who directed a film for CNN+, mingled with Anderson Cooper and Carl Bernstein as guests nibbled on miniature lobster rolls and gawked at the dizzyi...

A man suffering from an alleged mental health crisis caused a shocking scene in Seattle, Washington, on Tuesday which has since gone viral across social media. In the video posted to Twitter by @jessablvck, the man can be seen posted up against a building with a self-inflicted knife wound to the neck while exposing his genitalia as he peed on the sidewalk. A car is doused in flames on the other si...

Seattleites remain pessimistic about overall quality of life, with a recent survey indicating that 67% have actively considered moving out of the city due to affordability, public safety and other issues.  The survey of 700 registered voters, commissioned by the Seattle Metro Chamber of Commerce and conducted by EMC Research from March 13-20, is the latest indication of the challenges facing Seatt...