The City of Seattle activated the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and Joint Information Center (JIC) in support of the Seahawks season opener. Please direct all media inquiries to the JIC using 206-233-5072.
Kickoff is scheduled for 5:40…MORE
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Seattle Fire Department's 'Fill the Boot' fundraising campaign kicks off September 18
Wed, 09/03/14
Members of the Seattle Fire Fighters Union, Local 27 along with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, will celebrate their 60-year partnership and kick off the fire fighters' annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to benefit children and adults…MORE
September: National Senior Center Month Proclamations Issued by King County, City of Seattle and City of Kenmore
Wed, 09/03/14
Senior Services and their seven affiliated Senior Centers are celebrating National Senior Center Month in September 2014. National Senior Center Month, celebrated every September, is coordinated by the National Council on Aging’s National…MORE
Mayor proposes Department of Education and Early Learning
Wed, 09/03/14
As parents ready their kids for the first week of school, Mayor Ed Murray today unveiled his plan to reorganize of the city’s education and support programs into a new Department of Education and Early Learning (DEEL), the first of several…MORE
Fair weather’s foul smells could come from many sources
Fri, 08/29/14
There’s an air of mystery around King County’s wastewater treatment facilities, and while it might smell like sewage, those odors could have other culprits.
Over the past several weeks, low tides and decaying seaweed have prompted an…MORE
Congestion likely at Northgate southbound I-5 on- and off ramps
Wed, 08/27/14
The Seattle Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin the last phase of its current repaving work on North Northgate Way on Thursday, Sept. 4. On that date, construction crews will move to the final phase of the project, the one-block…MORE
Spend More Time in Fremont! (as Bridge Painting Begins)
Wed, 08/27/14
Next week the Seattle Department of Transportation will begin a series of lane closures for painting the Fremont Bridge, a project which will last into February. These closures will occur during off - peak travel hours, but heavier traffic should…MORE
Something stinks in Salmon Bay and it’s not the fish
Wed, 08/27/14
When it rains in Ballard it dumps. When there is more than one tenth of rain, hundreds of gallons of sewage and stormwater rush into Salmon Bay from the Ballard Basin.
In 2013 Ballard accounted for over one-third of the entire city’s…MORE
'Go walk it off' with Seattle City officials
Thu, 08/21/14
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s ‘Find It, Fix It’ Community Walk, focused on several crime hotspots, makes its way to a sixth neighborhood in Seattle on Monday, Aug. 25.
At the walks, community residents, police, and city officials walk together…MORE
Ballard Development: applications for subdivision and new drinking establishment; one appeal for AT&T antenna project
Thu, 08/21/14
The Department of Planning and Development announced pending land use applications today. One application is for a property subdivision into five unit lots. The other application asks to change a retail space into a drinking establishment. In…MORE
