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Caring for an aging family member at home

Providing full time care for a parent or aging loved-one within your home is an option. If you are considering this undertaking or are currently providing elder care in your home, it’s not my intention to discourage you. I want you to be mindful.

Be:Seattle kicks off Tenant Rights Bootcamps across city

On Jan. 11, community organizing nonprofit Be:Seattle and the Legal Action Center held the first of six Tenant Rights Bootcamps to be held across the city through March.

Too Much Fun

Large, stately mansions were leased to several responsible types who threw parties requiring dress attire and propriety.

Guest Editorial: City People's, design review and the three-legged stool

The project that seeks to develop over the site of City People's has been delayed for a number of important reasons.

In first act, Reykdal pulls OSPI out of lawsuit against school districts

As one of his first acts as state schools superintendent, Chris Reykdal has undone one of the final acts of his predecessor, Randy Dorn.  

A Mid-Spring Night's Dream: Citywide Shakespeare festival announced for 2018

Mark your calendars and, while you're at it, tame your shrews, lose the labors of your love, and star-cross your lovers.

McGilvra ushers in 2017 with big-hearted commitments from community

As the McGilvra Elementary PTA bids farewell to 2016 and welcomes 2017, we’d like to share with you successes and learnings from the past year, and provide a preview of more happenings to come in the new year.

Local market cools after election

However you feel about the election of Donald Trump — and the aftermath that’s still playing out — it’s immediately affected the Seattle real estate market.

University Village applies for seven- to eight-story parking garage

The managers of the University Village shopping center are seeking permission from the city to build a 915-stall parking garage and three new interior buildings on their site in Ravenna.

Don't shrug off shoulder pain

Do you have a twinge of shoulder pain when you roll over at night or reach overhead to put on a shirt? If you do, you’re not alone.

REVIEW: Quiet but powerful, 'Claire in Motion' can't be missed

This psychological thriller starring Betsy Brandt of “Breaking Bad” fame is quiet when other movies would be loud, ambiguous when other movies would demand hard resolution, thoughtful when others would demand the sublimation of difficulty to move onto the next plot beat.

Hyperlocal real estate and higher interest rates in 2017

There’s nothing certain in life but death and taxes, as the saying goes. Add a new truism for 2017; more demand than supply of homes in Seattle in the new year.

Brr-ringing in the New Year

Some people think of the first day of the new year as just another day. Others like to ring it in with a shock to the system.

EDITORIAL: Our brutal year

By show of hands, who is just absolutely relieved it’s about to be 2017?

Diabetes Expo doles out awards, features inventor of 'artificial pancreas'

On Nov. 19, the American Diabetes Expo at Magnuson Park brought together the diabetic community for National Diabetes Awareness Month in Washington state and Seattle.  

City crowdsources solutions for weather response

Snow is a rarity in Seattle. When it hits, many people would rather cancel their plans than deal with the roads, uncertain transit schedules, uninitiated motorists and general mess that comes from the cold white stuff.

City delays opening date of "navigation center" for homeless services

A navigation center originally planned to open to Seattle’s homeless population by January has been delayed, the city expecting to know within the next few weeks where the facility will be sited.

Photos from the 2016 Argosy Christmas Ships

Argosy ends its 2016 Christmas cruise season with carols on the shore of Gas Works Park 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23.

Our political wishlist for 2017

It’s the season for gift giving, resolutions, and New Year's wishes. Here’s our political wish list for 2017 — presents we'd like to see under every Seattle resident’s tree.

School district administrators turn to public to work out potentially huge deficit

Most years, mid-December is when school district staff finish the budget for the next school year. But for school year 2017-2018, staff have delayed that process a month to organize three public hearings for a potential eight-figure deficit.