West Seattle News

For a moment, as the giant concrete elephant tipped in the wind, everyone was on edge.

Moments after the first returns were posted in the Seattle mayor's race, Mike McGinn's volunteer field director took the stage at the Capitol Hill party.

In the city's most sharply-contested City Council race, Mike O'Brien, environmentalist and former chief financial officer of a law firm, appeared poised to win with 57.91 percent of votes in the ballot counts Tuesday night.

SEATTLE ? ON NOVEMBER 6TH AT APPROXIMATELY 2:50 P.M. SEATTLE POLICE HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WERE INVOLVED IN A SHOOTING IN THE 13700 BLOCK OF 56TH AVENUE SOUTH IN TUKWILA.

Environmentalist Mike McGinn has widened his lead over cell phone executive Joe Mallahan to 2,384 votes in the race for Seattle mayor.

Slain Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton was remembered as a father, brother, husband, friend, teacher and hero at a public memorial service at KeyArena.

Today we're welcoming a new WSB sponsor, The Little Gym of West Seattle , about to open at California/Myrtle . It's WSB tradition for new sponsors to get the chance to share information about their business, so here's what The Little Gym wants you to know: When new parents come to us and ask "why should I sign up for a class at The Little Gym?", we ...

Two more fires burned businesses early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood , an area where officials are already investigating six recent arsons .

This is the kind of tone deaf opinionifying that's always defined this radio host, but he's dialed it up to 11 since KIRO's ratings went to hell last Spring.

ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31ST SPD ROBBERY DETECTIVES ACTING ON A TIP RESPONDED TO A MOTEL LOCATED IN THE 16500 BLOCK OF AURORA AVENUE NORTH IN SHORELINE.

Ballot drop boxes will close at 8 p.m. today. Also, the Reporter will begin posting election results online, beginning at 8:15 p.m. tonight.

Susan Hutchison fields questions from the media at her party at the Bellevue Hyatt Regency after announcing she was trailing in returns.

In Delridge , General Election 2009 , West Seattle news , West Seattle politics That dropbox outside the Delridge Neighborhood Service Center at 5405 Delridge is the one place in West Seattle you can take your ballot all the way up till 8 tonight.

Firefighters said a fire that burned at a North Seattle Apartment complex overnight is arson.

Two political newcomers battled Tuesday to be Seattle's next mayor, and a former TV news anchor and a seasoned local politician faced off for King County's highest office.

ON OCTOBER 30TH, AT APPROXIMATELY 11:37 P.M., THE VICTIM WAS WAITING AT A BUS STOP IN THE 300 BLOCK OF PINE STREET.

Taproot Theatre held a press conference this morning, to let media folks inside to get a first-hand look at the damage from the devastating arson A on Oct.

The Greenwood-Phinney Chamber of Commerce has sent out a note urging its members to be "vigilant" and report all suspicious activity to police in the wake of last month's arson that destroyed four businesses, according to our news partners at PhinneyWood.com . Chamber President Steve Giliberto said the community must work even harder to stay safe, ...

Michael Wells, owner of indie Capitol Hill bookstore Bailey Coy Books and a prominent member of the Hill business community, tonight announced that he is closing doors on the shop at the end of November.

Two Seattle police officers Sunday place flowers at the makeshift memorial where Officer Timothy Brenton was shot and killed Saturday as he sat with an officer-trainee in a squad car.