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Back in December the Seattle Center cleared out half of the rides at the Fun Forest - "those east of the Center House - "to make room for new vendors and temporary installations in the 68,000 square feet of then empty space.

Strange things have been happening since T.W. Smith moved to Tacoma last spring: erotically themed Halloween costume parties; squads of voluptuous calendar girls causing commotion at local bars; squads of rowdy bicyclists going on monthly, pedal-powered pub crawls that Smith has dubbed "the Friday Night Booze Cruise." "We spend about an hour in ...

An armed robber hit a business in Ballard early Saturday, and police say he closely matches the description of a gunman who held up a business on Roosevelt Way Northeast 90 minutes earlier.

Major League Soccer and its players have signed a five-year labor contract that avoids a strike scheduled for next week.

Low tides this time of year aren't mega-low - but low enough to happen onto sights like that one, photographed by Eve at Lincoln Park on Friday.

A federal judge has struck down a tentative deal by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco to sell its old downtown Seattle building to an undisclosed buyer.

Researchers in Seattle have reached a milestone in the field of genetics. They've sequenced the entire genetic makeup of a family of four.

A 22-year-old accused of shooting a man to death outside St. James Cathedral last November has been arrested in Ohio after a four-month manhunt.

The forecast had called for wind up to 25 mph and it's been kicking up for about the past half-hour. So far we have outage reports from Morgan Junction and Westwood , too.

A Navy sailor bit and kicked Seattle police officers while they were arresting him for DUI, said the Seattle Police Department.

If you are looking for something to do this weekend why not take a walk through one of the many botanic gardens the pacific northwest has to offer.

Downtown business-community members said tourists and locals avoid downtown because they are afraid of and intimidated by people asking for money.

Sending that photo of last night's rainbow, Edgar from Captive Eye Media wondered if leprechauns would be finding the pot o' gold at that SW Dakota playground.

A van overturned on Burlington Northern railroad tracks in south Seattle Tuesday morning, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

Thanks to food correspondent Christopher Boffoli for pointing this out: Swinery proprietor Gabriel Claycamp just announced on Facebook that his West Seattle store is reopening April 1st.

Although there's no "Fiddler on the Roof" sing-along event as there has been in previous years, the 15th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival has the next best thing.

Update :Seattle City Light says outages involved 9,000 customers and blamed gusty winds that blew branches on power lines.

A news release this morning brings word of a new business at 42nd/Oregon in The Junction.

That sign on the door at Hotwire Online Coffeehouse is for a new first-of-its-kind service launched by Hotwire proprietor Lora Lewis - it's Textwire ; text Hotwire your beverage order and the time you're arriving, and the drink will be ready when you get there.

Executive director of CannaCare in Kirkland, Finn Hill resident Steve Sarich recently led a rally on the steps of the state House to call on state legislators to provide more legal protection for medical marijuana patients.