Dan Templeman News Today

Chief John DeRousse is a 25-year veteran of the Everett Police Department.

Wednesday night's Everett City Council meeting started off with some big news: Police Chief Dan Templeman announced his resignation, effective Oct.31.

Everett Mayor Cassie Franklin announced big plans for the city as she outlined her 2024 budget proposal Wednesday night before the city council. Part of that budget includes a plan to hire more uniformed officers with the police department, along with a wellness coordinator. 

A second suspect has been arrested in connection to the deadly gang-related shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Everett.

Rocha was shot to death on March 22, 2022, in the Starbucks parking lot while he was investigating a convicted felon moving guns between two cars.

A 15-year-old boy and the suspect accused of fatally shooting him at an Everett bus stop were in rival gangs, an officer wrote in an arrest report filed in district court. The suspect, a …

Record-level overdose deaths in Snohomish, Yakima and Spokane counties over the last several years have prompted state leaders to seek federal assistance in fighting the drug crisis.

The final chapter of the Waits Motel may be written on Tuesday night. An agenda item before the city council would condemn the Waits Motel. The move would clear the way for the property to be bought by the city with an ultimate goal to develop the property and turn it into residential housing.

A pandemic backlog and inexperienced cops begin to explain the trend, even as police raise the alarm about rising crime.

A man who killed an Everett police officer last year was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in what the judge called a "brutal execution of an excellent police officer."