Capitol Hill News

Grant Feek, left, and John Wehr, of Tred, a startup that debuts today after local testing.

New City's stripped down staging of Tony Kushner's intimate one-act reminds us of the power - and perils - of theater.

A Seattle serial rapist will likely be free for the first time in 16 years early next week, when prosecutors expect to drop an effort to have him institutionalized indefinitely as a violent sexual predator.

Former Queen Anne and Magnolia resident Elizabeth Lonseth is returning to the Seattle area to present "A Gradual Disappearance," a booklet to help families dealing with a loved one's memory disease.

The I-5 bridge over the Skagit River is reopening with temporary fixes. Seattle kindie rock stars set to tour.

Billie Holiday wore a fox stole that still had the heads on it. Lady Gaga learned to play on a stand-up piano.

Among the small army of campaign operatives, consultants and policy advocates that has attached itself to the fate of leading mayoral candidate Ed Murray, nearly all of them share a trait that Mayor Mike McGinn's campaign considers more than a coincidence: They once worked for the man McGinn vanquished four years ago, Greg Nickels.

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A community march is planned in Lake Stevens tonight in memory of Molly Conley , who was killed in a driveby shooting here on June 1. Conley was 15, of Seattle.

Seattle City Council leaders Monday dealt Mayor Mike McGinn an election-year rebuff, saying they would not recommend funding for one of his signature issues - studies of a light-rail crossing of the Ship Canal.

Oregon police have filed charges against the driver who allegedly struck and killed a Seattle man who was dribbling a soccer ball to Brazil.

3:18 PM: Our crew at the scene says a car hit a pole and hydrant on the west side of the road a short distance north of Highland Park Way.

Ending a long-running legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to hear a case in which the City of Seattle spent nearly $600,000 to challenge a lawsuit and $1 award to a man who was held at gunpoint by an off-duty police officer.

"Spotlight on Seattle," 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and "Inter National Series," 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Raisbeck Hall/Cornish College of the Arts, 2015 Boren Ave., Seattle; tickets and info: www.SeattleIDF.org.

Father's Day weekend brought plenty of business to Chicago undertakers, with six dead by Saturday night and one more Sunday, continuing the wave of violence against which deadly crime in Washington State, where a new gun control initiative is being tried, pales.

Janet Stadt's family runs Flour City Pasta, which for four years has been a staple at the Rochester Public Market, Lori's Natural Foods and other places.

Rio "The Rocket" Valdez, 7, of Seattle reads in the back of his father Frank Valdez Jr.'s 1962 Chevy Impala SuperSport during the Show and Shine car show at Festival Sundiata at the Seattle Center on Father's Day Sunday June 16, 2013.

Many of my closest friends from high school and college have scattered to places like Alaska, Washington state, Idaho and New York, and we may or may not send each other Christmas cards.

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn has acknowledged recent discussions with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman.

Joe Neverkewitz, owner of Spirit World, a Lake Stevens liquor store, just launched an ambitious reward fund, hoping to find justice for a teenage girl.