Why This Rickety Building Lost The Fight Against Rising Rents On the top floor of the Summit Inn, a run-down building on Capitol Hill where artists live, Philomel Swango, 64, shows off bolts of colorful cloth and... Joshua McNichols
Seattle Suspends $1 Fine For Failure To Compost Breathe easy, Seattle. The proposed fines for not following Seattle’s new food composting rule have been delayed. The fines were originally scheduled to... Sara Bernard
National Guard Battles Army Over Gear As Money Dries Up At Lewis-McChord Inside the hangar at Washington state's Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Army National Guard mechanics are busy maintaining a neat line of Blackhawks. Some of... Patricia Murphy
Some See Dangerous Giant in Shell Oil Rig, Others See Jobs It was the kind of David-and-Goliath moment that Greenpeace was looking for: Kayakers paddling out in their tiny craft to meet a mammoth oil drilling... Joshua McNichols
Shell Oil Arctic Drilling Rig Arrives Off Port Angeles A Shell Oil drilling rig at the center of environmental protests about oil exploration in the Arctic arrived off Port Angeles at dawn Friday on a trip... Joshua McNichols
Seattle's New Parking Meters Smart Enough To Charge More At Peak Times Editor's note: The city of Seattle says it began Monday to install new parking meters with expanded features that make them more user-friendly. This... Joshua McNichols
Mindie Lind's Voice Is The Aural Version Of Honey The camera pans across four bathroom stall doors, revealing a set of legs in each. It stops at the last stall, where no legs are visible. Instead, a... Marcie Sillman
Skip Testing? Two Kirkland Moms Debate The Ethics It’s the day before state testing, and the Dimpsey and Rasche kids gather for a playdate in Kirkland. Pearl, a third-grader at Peter Kirk Elementary,... Joshua McNichols
Meri, 11: The Day My Parents Adopted Me From Ethiopia It was a long trip and many things were different. But I enjoyed it. I was young so I wasn’t that close to many people. But it was hard to let go of my... Meri Putnam
Seattle Hula Expert Moodette Ka'apana Dies at 60 To people who knew Moodette Ka’apana, she was Aunty Moody. “There’s a saying in the Hawaii community: ‘Huiiii, Aunty! How you?’” said Stephen Gomes, a... Ruby de Luna
