Jason Sloss

1 week ago | kiro7.com | Jason Sloss

EDMONDS, Wash. — The Edmonds School District is facing an $8.5 million budget shortfall for the 2025-2026 school year. They are now forced to look at potential cuts, including staffing and programs. Tuesday, the school board is meeting to go over an initial proposed reduced education plan. Reductions could be made when the final budget is approved in July. Watch the story tonight on KIRO 7 at 6 pm. ©2025 Cox Media Group

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Jason Sloss

22-year-old Lorenzo Kai Smith is accused of attacking two bikini baristas along Evergreen Way in Everett last week. The first incident in the afternoon of Sunday, April 6th, at Lady Bug Espresso. The barista there said a man forced his way into the stand, got on top of her, and started assaulting her. She was able to kick him off, and the attacker ran away. In court, the barista made a statement. “It was a very scary situation and I’m kind of shocked right now.

1 week ago | kiro7.com | Jason Sloss

BELLINGHAM, Wash. — “I wanted to create a place where kids and families are taken care of.”For nearly 14 years, Kathy Westover has cherished her time running the James Place Child Development Center in downtown Bellingham. But now, she faces a big challenge after November’s bomb cyclone tore up the roof of the nearly 100-year-old building. “The whole thing had just blown over on itself – it was like it folded in half and the water had been pouring in,” said Westover.

2 weeks ago | kiro7.com | Jason Sloss

While President Trump is putting a 90-day pause on tariffs for most countries, China is now getting hit with a 125% tariff rate. It’s a move that threatens to raise costs on electronics and appliances. According to Dr. Jeff Gramlich, a Washington State University business professor, “Companies are going to increase their prices, just to make sure, just to be safe. They don’t know what’s going to happen.”The same goes for many shoppers, like Steve Moore, who’s in the market for a new dishwasher.

2 weeks ago | kiro7.com | Jason Sloss

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — Thurston County Sheriff’s investigators are looking for 82-year-old Marcia Norman, who they say disappeared under “suspicious circumstances” from her home near the city of Tenino. She was last heard from on the evening of Tuesday, April 1. Ron Culpepper lives next door and says his wife was supposed to get a ride from Norman to a nail appointment the next morning, but her friend never showed. “We called her cell phone and landline... never got anybody.