Officially, it's the South Lake Union Streetcar. But in the neighborhood where the new line runs, it's called the South Lake Union Trolley — or, the SLUT. At Kapow! Coffee, a shop in the old Cascade neighborhood, 100 T-shirts bearing the words "Ride the SLUT" sold out in days, and another 100 are on order.
A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance @!$%#.
Former U.S. Attorney John McKay said his resignation was ordered by the Bush administration without explanation seven months after he received a favorable job evaluation.
When Washington state announced its new tourism slogan last spring, Pike Place Market vendor Kenny Telesco was willing to give it a chance. He practiced saying it with "jazz hands" and asked tourists to "SayWA" as they posed for photos. But he's not sure he can stomach Seattle's new tourism slogan, unveiled Friday in 18-foot-tall letters atop the Space Needle: "metronatural."
Patti Simon was working in the Jewish Federation's office when she heard screaming, gunshots and what sounded like furniture crashing on the floor above her.
City officials are yanking a voter-approved rule that has stunted Seattle's vertical growth for 15 years, but developers say there isn't much downtown space left for new skyscrapers.
Kyle Moore dropped his 14-year-old daughter off at a Tacoma bowling alley Friday night, knowing she was meeting up with older friends for a ride to a dance party in Seattle, one with a zombie theme.
The private party following a "zombie rave" was winding down when a man walked out, returned to the house wearing bandoliers of shotgun shells and opened fire on the young crowd, police said.
A gunman opened fire early Saturday in a home, killing six young partygoers and critically injuring at least one other before committing suicide when confronted by police outside.
Artists and city planners are reshaping the city's largest undeveloped downtown water front — a toxic vacant lot — into a sculpture park, museum and environmental restoration project that officials hope will become a new landmark alongside the Space Needle and Pike Place Market.
"We have to go well beyond Kyoto in order to be able to deal with climate disruption that has been occurring ... on the planet," Nickels said of the international agreement that the U.S. has refused to sign.
Pacific Northwest Franklin Graham Festival starts this weekend, Nov. 2-4, at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Wash.
The go-go dancer is gone, but her platform still stands inside a shuttered Belltown nightclub. With Bible in hand, the pastor of a new downtown evangelical church climbed the ladder Monday just to see if the platform could be used as a pulpit to preach redemption.
Each day, Thanh Nga Nguyen rises before 3 a.m. to tend to her tofu factory -- a small, steamy place tucked into the end of a strip mall on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South. Trucks rumble down the freshly paved street -- it's easy to bypass Chuminh Tofu without another thought.
From New York to Seattle, gays are divided over a workplace protection bill in Congress, not because of whom it covers but because of whom it leaves out: transgender people.
The first thing I noticed about G.I.B. (this was how he identified himself, and he wouldn't tell us what the letters stood for) was that he was drunk—slurred-speech, unable-to-stand-up-straight-for-more-than-a-few-seconds drunk.
The last time a drive was launched to eradicate malaria, the year was 1955 and the call came from the governments of the world through the United Nations. Now, two people from Seattle are challenging the world to take up the cause again.
The Tri-Cities area in Washington State was the ranked the fastest growing area by percent in the state and 29th out of America's 361 metropolitan areas
Bill and Melinda Gates today challenged the world's top malaria experts to take on one of the greatest challenges in the history of medicine: The eradication of a disease that has plagued humanity for millennia and still claims more than a million lives a year.
Inside a private conference room at Microsoft, top executives leaned around the table, eyes and ears fixed on a small, soft-spoken visitor from Bangladesh.
If the malaria community had an Oscar week, this would be it.
Data from several key traffic measures indicate that as traffic congestion worsens, many drivers may be starting to make significant changes in how they get around — including driving less and owning fewer vehicles.
Scenes from Union Bay. This is what makes Seattle awesome. Take a look at the photos, note the bridge that so many have as their commute.
Throw in Strong in Week 5, and we still haven't had a Sunday this season that was free of a season-ending neck injury.
Vulcan, Paul Allen's development firm, has announced a twist in its plans to make over South Lake Union: roughly 1.5 million square feet of new office buildings for a single tenant, a large employer who remains unnamed.
An unknown person fired two shots from a .22 caliber weapon at a cat in North Seattle, hitting the animal in the face and stomach. The cat is under the care of a local veteranarian, and volunteers are distributing flyers.
Microsoft is launching a Web-based service for organizing events and remembering them afterward -- trying to move further into the highly competitive areas of social networking and online photo sharing. Preview this new Service at:
I am sure we can all remember those cheesy recycling ads way back in the day, but how many cities and towns have actually made and progress sine those prehistoric recycling days? Well, Seattle has made some great strides and has reached the point of 44 percent of all trash begin …
Out here next to Steamboat Slough and the lumber mill, piles of garbage from Seattle are lined up in neat rows and blanketed with a fabric similar to that used in high-end Gore-Tex clothing.
Seattle is a city that has some very strange traditions and phenomena regarding traffic rules that natives delight in attempting to explain to visitors.
Police in Seattle are searching for a giant toilet on wheels after the van it was being carried in was stolen.
Sonics Center Robert Swift has been benched in favor of Johan Petro for the pre-season opener in Sacramento and he's not happy.
Now nearly a third of residents in Bellevue are minorities, the same percentage as Seattle, and yet Lee looks at his council colleagues and sees no other people of color. After more than a decade, it remains lonely at the top.
...Seattle Seahawks fullback Mack Strong has a spinal cord condition that is ending his career immediately -- but not affecting his quality of life. And for that, the 36-year-old Pro Bowler, husband and father of two is grateful.