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The City of Seattle joined cities around the world last Friday, September 18 in hosting its ninth-annual PARK(ing) Day event. On-street parking spaces across the city were temporarily converted to pop-up installations where local community groups…MORE

The City of Seattle is working with local and federal agencies to manage traffic on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week during the visit of a large Chinese delegation. Seattle officials are working to support U.S. Secret Service efforts…MORE

By Katy Wilkens, MS, RD

As summer winds down, plum trees start to discard their fruits. There usually are so many it’s hard to eat them all at once. Over the years I have collected some favorite recipes for using up copious quantities of…MORE

On August 5, the owners of Edith Macefield's famous "Up House"announced the house would be donated to OPAL ("Of People And Land") Community Land Trust -- a nonprofit organization providing permanently affordable housing on Orcas Island -- if…MORE

The Ballard Chamber of Commerce has requested a meeting with Mayor Ed Murray to discuss an alternative site location for the proposed Ballard transitional homeless encampment.

Mike Stewart, Executive Director of the Ballard Chamber of…MORE

Over 5,000 Seattle teachers and paraprofessionals picketed through the day yesterday in front of the 97 schools in the Seattle School District on what should have been the first day of class.

The strike continues today, and teachers have…MORE

Instead being the first day of school for Seattle Public School students, tomorrow teachers will strike at all of the 97 schools in the district.

More than 5,000 Seattle teachers and paraprofessionals will start picketing in front of…MORE

Members of Quest Church, a growing Seattle church based in Interbay, are moving into the 40,000 square foot building at 1401 NW Leary Way, which once was the home to Mars Hill Church.

Quest Church bought the building for $9 million last…MORE

The Low Income Housing Institute has announced that they plan to place tiny houses at the proposed transitional homeless encampment site at 2826 NW Market Street.

LIHI reported that they would place up to six houses along the frontage…MORE

The environmental remediation work at the proposed homeless encampment site on NW Market Street has finished, but the cost of remediation will exceed initial estimates after crews found contaminants deeper in the ground.

All of the…MORE