Seattle Center News

A group of half-naked animal-rights activists dressed like fish say a veterinary convention is no place for fish-throwing. About a dozen members of PETA protested Saturday outside the annual convention of the Illinois-based American Veterinary Medical Association.

IDSA + IxDA = Whole product design. Industrial Designers and User Interaction Designers will tell the story of the products they designed, together.

The Santa Fe, an 11-unit apartment complex in Seattle, sold for $1.44 million to a private investor, according to a news release from Marcus & Millichap.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels gave the city's highest-paid executive the maximum $40,000 bonus this year.

It looks like the Seattle City Council will put off plans to repeal the city's employee "head tax," or Employee Hours Tax, a $25-per-employee tax charged to business owners in Seattle.

A Puget Sound resident reeled in what is believed to be a Humboldt Squid Friday in West Seattle.

A Seattle police officer was injured early this morning when he was dragged by a car being driven by a man wanted for reckless driving.

The homeless camp that calls itself " Nickelsville " will mark one month back in West Seattle on Monday - if it's still there.

As in, less restrictions could mean more variety in housing units. Or, so said the architects from whom City Councilmember Sally Clark and her Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods Committee heard at Youngstown Arts Center Tuesday night.

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New York City Tiffany & Co. will open a store in Seattlea s University Village on Sept.

We heard most of this play out on the scanner early this morning but didn't get quite enough information to write about it till verifying with police - which now we've done: On Beach Drive around 4:30 this morning, police arrested two men who were caught with a stolen Zodiac watercraft.

Four Belltown blocks are about to get beautified, the Seattle City Council decided this afternoon with a unanimous vote.

The Washington State Patrol said that a missing 27-year-old Spokane woman who walked off a ferry and left her car behind was spotted Tuesday in Shoreline.

Seattle's "head tax" costs Carl Hoeflick less than $1,000 a year - $25 annually for each of the employees at his Duwamish manufacturing company.

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and two City Council members, Richard Conlin and Tim Burgess, are calling for an end to the much-maligned employee head tax by Jan.

Thanks to Gatewood writer Pam from Nerd's Eye View for that photo from low tide today at Lincoln Park.

The courtship of Russell Investments is getting a little rough. After they got wind of the sweet nothings Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels has been whispering into Russell's ear to entice it to leave Tacoma for Seattle, 16 Pierce County legislators fired off an angry letter to the mayor Tuesday, telling him to knock it off.

A balloon artist named Magic Mike is once again taking the air out of Seattle Center's restrictions on street performers.

Sixteen Pierce County officials have sent a letter to Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels telling him to back off attempts to lure the Russell Investments headquarters from Tacoma.