Health directors from each of the six municipalities signed onto the complaint, highlighting how residents and businesses are dealing with rats in areas of piled-up trash, strong odors and overflowin...

If your trash is normally picked up by Republic Services in King and Snohomish counties, it might be piling up while workers are on strike demanding better wages, benefits and working conditions.

"Time is of the essence," the Peabody letter also states. "With summer heat intensifying and trash piling up, the consequences of inaction are not just political or financial—they are human and urgent...