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Ask Ray About Real Estate: Top trends for 2018

Transformational changes are occurring all around us, including business, technology and culture.

Healthy and Active: Exercises for cross country and downhill skiing

Winter is coming! The days are short and snow is packing the slopes. If you’re the kind of snow bird that heads north for winter then this is your season. It’s time to ready your muscles and cardiovascular system for our Cascade winter wonderland.

Garden Hotline: Fauna in your flora

In the City of Seattle, our dog population outnumbers our population of children, a testament to the fact that many of us are living with dogs and undoubtedly other pets in the city. 

Johanknecht aims to unseat Urquhart as King County Sheriff

Five years ago, John Urquhart made history as the first person to defeat an incumbent to become King County Sheriff. Mitzi Johanknecht wants to be the second.

Seattle Soundings: The new City Council order

In the big scheme of things, last Friday’s Seattle City Council vote to appoint Kirsten Harris-Talley as an interim city councilperson, replacing Tim Burgess, won’t mean much. 

City on a Hill: Amazon's "shell" game

Around 1992-93, the media hype machine was all obsessive about which local music scene could have become “the next Seattle.”

One way or another, historic Seattle is coming down

For those in Seattle worried that gentrification is rapidly making the city unaffordable and resulting in the destruction of those brick monuments to the Emerald City’s past, there’s a new threat to an old problem that appears likely to quicken these losses.

Outside City Hall: Tips for feel-good city campaign cliches

Each election cycle, the successful campaigns for Mayor and City Council spend tens of thousands on campaign mailers.

Contentious City Attorney race centers on finances, policing

Accusations of financial carelessness, a strained relationship with police, and ineffectiveness in the courtroom have marked the contentious race for city attorney between two-term incumbent Pete Holmes and challenger Scott Lindsay.

Discarded smoking materials caused duplex fire

None injured in fire that destroyed home. 

WWII vet Earl Collins takes flight of honor

World War II veteran Earl Collins took off on his first Honor Flight on Saturday, but not before his friends and neighbors gave him a proper sendoff.

Small crowd gathers for school board forum

Tense moments punctuated a forum hosted by the Uptown Alliance on Tuesday night featuring five of the six candidates for Seattle School Board.