Developers, government officials and community advocates said goodbye to the large asphalt lot above the Capitol Hill light rail station on Tuesday, and celebrated the start of Sound Transit’s largest transit-oriented development to date.
The Colonial Dames of Washington will host winning projects from middle and high school students from around the state for Washington State History Day at Pioneer Hall in Madison Park on Sunday, July 8.
The Seattle City Attorney’s Office is seeking an amendment to municipal code that would make it easier to charge and convict a person of committing a hate crime.
A new Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections director’s rule requiring development projects going through streamline, administrative or full design review to prepare a community outreach plan takes effect July 1.
Parkshore has had picturesque views of Lake Washington and Mt. Rainier for the past 55 years. But the senior living market has changed a lot since then, so now Transforming Age is executing a modern vision for the Madison Park community.
Natalie Anderson and Adam Peart started Driftwood Boutique a decade ago, growing a local clientele in the market for affordable high-end fashion. Julie Moberly has taken over the Madrona storefront, changing the name to Jules, and adding her own stamp on what she says was already a "winning formula."
The crossing flags seen up and down East Madison Street popped up a decade ago, a project of the now disbanded Historic Madison Park group. Residents Reg Newbeck and Ken Myrabo took up the flags in 2010, and last year was the first time resident support covered the full cost of maintaining the community service.
Amid chants from protesters inside city hall that “We are ready to fight, housing is a human right,” the Seattle City Council voted 7-2 to repeal the employee-hours tax, almost a month after its unanimous approval.
Back in 2011, playwright and immigration attorney Margaret O’Donnell wrote an educational play for Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church. With people in the church participating in it, “The Detention Lottery” presented real immigration courtroom cases to educate the community about the deportation legal system.
Seattle City Council president Bruce Harrell has called a special Tuesday meeting to vote on repealing the contentious employee-hours tax, almost a month after the council unanimously approved it.
The reopening of Meany Middle School last September resulted in cutting grades sixth through eighth at what is now just Madrona Elementary. Despite having room to grow its enrollment, Madrona is one of many central area schools that has struggled with increasing its student population over the years.
With city staff citing a lack of viable options for a brick-and-mortar supervised drug consumption site, Seattle is moving toward a fixed-mobile model.
Henrietta Price has been a crossing guard at Leschi Elementary for longer than she can remember. The working figure is more than 20 years. “As long as God lets me live, I’ll be down on that corner,” Price said after accepting the first Leschi Stars award of the night on June 6.
A 33-year-old Seattle man arrested for allegedly waving a gun around outside the Red Onion last month is facing a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm in the second degree.
Coldwell Banker Bain reports it has raised $1.92 million for nonprofits through its Community Partnership program, from its start in 1988 to the end of 2017.
The Ainslie and Martynovych Home was the first house on the map for the second annual Madison Park Home & Garden Tour, which was started last year as a fundraiser for McGilvra Elementary.
The Northwest School sixth-grader Asa Whitehead chose raising money for the Sierra Club as his action project. The Leschi resident raised $79 at his lemonade and cookie stand over two days.
