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UPDATE Because the Seattle Police Department will be holding a second media briefing on the officer-involved shooting that took place on Capitol Hill on Friday, the original Safe Communities update visit to the SW Precinct will be rescheduled…MORE

By Simone Alicea

Southwest District Council discusses property projects By Simone Alicea

Tweet: SPS and City Light talk about building projects in West Seattle at SWDC meeting Wednesday. New schools and possible parks on the agenda…MORE

An estimated more than 1000 people turned out for the 19th annual Admiral 4th of July Children's Parade.

The event started at 44th Ave. SW and Sunset Drive SW and wound through the Admiral neighborhood, ending up at Hamilton Viewpoint Park…MORE

Chanda Oatis, who has been the Principal at Alki Elementary for two years, after time at Denny International Middle School, has been named as Principal at Van Asselt Elementary School beginning in the fall. The announcement came in a letter to…MORE

Aida Fraser-Hammer has been named as the new incoming Principal for Chief Sealth International High School, replacing the departing Chris Kinsey. She was welcomed to the job with a letter from Seattle Public Schools Superintendent José Banda.…MORE

Thousands upon thousands of people will descend upon the West Seattle Junction retail core for Summerfest from July 12 – 14, and it will be a sight local independent retailers wish they saw every weekend.

In a nation beset with strip malls…MORE

The news today tells us Seattle’s economic and housing revival is in full swing.

As a result, the stories of those still mired in the foreclosure and underwater mortgage crisis that began in 2008 often times get drowned out, and a small…MORE

7th Congressional District Congressman Jim McDermott reintroduced the Duwamish Tribal Recognition Act (H.R. 2442) on July 1 in hopes of finally gaining federal recognition and benefits for the native people of metropolitan Seattle (named after Si…MORE

Firefighters and paramedics responded to the Port of Seattle's terminals (near Terminal 7A) at 4:40 p.m. on July 2 to aid a crane operator who reportedly suffered a cardiac event while in the crane's cab.

Upon evaluating the patient, it…MORE

A carjacking that took place on July 2, led to the arrest of two suspects but that's the simple part. Police now say that the man who pulled a gun during a Tuesday evening robbery might have been trying to get back some stolen auto parts.