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Alki Point wildlife watcher/writer Guy Smith shares that photo with news of the first brant sighting - just two days after we published his story about the small geese who return to West Seattle waters Thanksgiving week every year .

To honor the legacy of the historic Olmsted boulevards that run through Seattle, the city is installing special street signs.

THESE 15 BRANCHES will be open five days a week, a total of 35 hours: Columbia, Delridge, Fremont, Green Lake, High Point, International District/Chinatown, Madrona-Sally Goldmark, Magnolia, Montlake, NewHolly, Northgate, Queen Anne, South Park, University, Wallingford.

Sean Wooten, 29, journeyed from West Seattle to the Samoan Islands last month to volunteer after they were hit with a tsunami.

Seattle mayor Greg Nickels announced today that Microsoft has become the 150th business to join the Seattle Climate Partnership, a voluntary program for the regiona s businesses working to reduce their carbon footprint and partner with others in the effort.

The windy weather is taking its toll on the Seattle metro area. Trees are down, knocking out power across the city.

An old episode of Frasier , the television comedy set in Seattle, focuses on an impending strike at the fictional radio station where Frasier works as an on-air psychiatrist.

As a new mayor takes office, key jobs at the Seattle City Council will stay put under a new alignment of committee chairs announced late Thursday by the council's president Richard Conlin.

An underwater billboard hoax helped a restaurant on the Puget Sound increase chowder sales by a factor of four.

The King County Ferry District board voted Monday to reduce the amount of money it collects from taxpayers, abandon proposed demonstration ferry routes and focus only on the Vashon-Seattle and West Seattle-Seattle foot ferries.

A man was assaulted and robbed early this morning by three men armed with a baseball bat, police said.

Just after 11 p.m., the Seattle School Board unanimously approved the new boundary maps assigning which schools Seattle children will attend for years to come.

Most city attractions for kids are clustered at Seattle Center, a 74-acre downtown venue with the Space Needle, Children's Museum, Children's Theatre, Pacific Science Center, Experience Music Project and an indoor-outdoor amusement park.

A genuine representation of the collective spirit, neighborhood Christmas light displays embody the true institution of the holidays.

Our sister paper Seattle Weekly reports that the 5-Spot , a Seattle restaurant that rotates its menu among regional cuisines, is currently offering a board of St.

Please join us tonight for some politics under the influence at the Seattle chapter of Drinking Liberally.

Ready or not, the holidays are coming. And with them, the downtown Seattle trimming, such as the tree that tops the trampled walkways of Pike Place Market and the star over the downtown Macy's -- both of which will be hoisted in place in the next week.

Just out of the WSB inbox, from Sean McGrath : For over a hundred years the Fraternal Order of Eagles have been offering Thanksgiving meals across the country.

Seattle City Council members held a press briefing today to talk about their almost-final 2010 budget decisions.

The Mormon church and Boy Scouts of America were named as defendants in lawsuits Monday claiming childhood sexual abuse by youth leaders decades ago.