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By Erica C. Barnett City Councilmember Dionne Foster has introduced a bill that will give developers a break on mandatory…

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(File photo) Looking for a preschool? West Seattle’s unique Intergenerational Learning Center at The Mount (WSB sponsor) is holding an open house tomorrow (Thursday) night, and we’re mentioning it here in case you haven’t already seen it in our Event Calendar – here’s the invitation: Join the Intergenerational Learning Center Director Yona Dembele and team […]

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(WSB file photo from a movie night at Camp Long) As noted in our calendar and daily highlight list, Seattle Parks is screening “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” in Lincoln Park tonight.Camp Long has been hoping to host outdoor movies before the season’s over, and this afternoon we just got word of two, on the next […]

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After many housing advocates feared the idea of a temporary break on Mandatory Housing Affordability fees was dead, Foster's proposal could be approved by early next year. It includes an 80% discount for vested projects, and a 60% break for new projects that include more family-sized units.

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A RV safe lot between South Park and West Seattle is expected to serve 140 currently people currently living on the street once it opens in November. Councilmember Bob Kettle and other officials spoke to the importance of the project at a recent ceremony.

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I will be out of town until next Thursday, so look for my stories on the mayor’s gun violence reduction…

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On the way home from a recent trip, Eriech Tapia drove past a sea of dark industrial buildings lining an already jam-packed northern Virginia road: data centers. “It was interesting to see how many were going up,” said Tapia, a 30-year-old Republican from Arlington, Virginia, who works in higher education advocacy and policy. He said […]

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(WSB photo, February) We first reported back in February that Delphinium Delicatessen and Goods was on the way to 3902 California SW, and published a May update on progress. As is almost always the case for new businesses, things took a little longer than hoped for. Some readers have asked for an update, and tonight […]

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Peter Martin went missing two years ago from the Fond Du Lac reservation in Minnesota. His family hasn’t stopped looking, but they say the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs investigation into Martin’s disappearance has stalled since the agent assigned to the case left the role in early 2025. “They’ve never […]

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A man convicted in the shooting deaths of three people is set to be executed Wednesday in Texas. Meanwhile, another execution that was scheduled for the same time in Georgia has been halted by a judge. This would be the fifth execution in Texas, while Georgia has yet to put anyone to death this year. […]

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For generations, kids have learned how to ride a bike — a quintessential childhood milestone — in driveways, on sidewalks and in neighborhood streets. Now, they’re learning in school gyms and playgrounds. On a recent September day, kindergarteners at Terra Vista Elementary School in Rancho Cucamonga, California, were fitted with helmets and assigned a black-and-white […]

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A Georgia judge has stayed the execution of Stacey Humphreys to allow for a hearing under a new state law that permits victims of abuse to seek sentence reconsiderations. Humphreys, convicted of malice murder, will have his case reviewed to determine if his personal history qualifies him for a sentence reduction under the recently enacted legislation. The ruling puts the scheduled Wednesday execution on hold pending the outcome of the legal challenge.

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Two weeks ago tonight, Seattle Public Schools and its educators’ union, the Seattle Education Association, reached what was literally an eleventh-hour tentative agreement on a new contract, enabling classes to start the next day as scheduled. Last Friday, SEA members met to vote, and some voted online.Results are now final, and the union has just […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A helicopter crashed in Los Angeles on Tuesday, killing at least one person near a deadly bus crash, officials said. It was not immediately clear whether anyone had survived the helicopter crash. “We’re trying to determine how many patients were inside the helicopter,” Capt. Branden Silverman, a spokesperson for the Los […]

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An analysis by The Seattle Times found violent and property crimes in Seattle's downtown commercial core have fallen by nearly 50% since 2018.

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Testing confirmed that a rare strain of avian Chlamydia abortus likely caused the deaths of three tufted puffins at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

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KIRO host Jake Skorheim said Upthegrove left out the most important part in his op-ed on wildfires in Washington.

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dramatic video released Wednesday shows the moment two Minneapolis officers were shot after racing to an upper floor of an apartment building in pursuit of a shooter who had also killed two people and wounded three others, one the mother of his child. The videos released by the City of Minneapolis provide […]

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A man accused of assaulting a woman who was jogging on a trail in a sexually motivated attack was taken into custody by Renton police.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has issued an order blocking immigration officers from making warrantless arrests in Southern California unless they determine the person is likely to escape. In a preliminary injunction granted Sept. 2 and unsealed Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong said the government must consider the “totality of the […]