Beacon Hill News

Purchasers of fireworks at the Muckleshoot Reservation south of Auburn can try out some of the noisemakers in a nearby test-firing area.

We're at The Hall at Fauntleroy , where City Council President Richard Conlin is one of four councilmembers here for the "town hall" meeting tackling three topics: Youth violence, public schools, and tree protection.

Presenter: Jeffrey Pindelski This webcast will enable you to learn essential rapid intervention rope rescue concepts that can also be applied daily fireground survival.

Today is the last day of school in Seattle. And for five schools, it's the last day ever.

Please let this be a Seattle trend Portland does not follow: landscape looters are stealing newly planted trees and shrubs from the yards of erstwhile gardeners.

What she's resorted to: Jahns knows her new Daphne isn't priceless, but she's using barbed wire, chain and masonry as a deterrent.

A falling tree took down power lines and knocked out electricity service early this morning for about 3,000 customers in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood.

At Beacon Hill Station, one of four elevators will speed you roughly 16 stories down.

The power is back on in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood this morning after nearly 3,000 customers lost service.

Artwork by Seattle's Dan Corson is suspended above the passenger boarding platform in the Beacon Hill Station.

The Seattle real estate market is experiencing several pieces of great news, among them: Green Lake, Ballard and North Seattle.

One month ago , we shared the report that The Swinery - Culinary Communion founder Gabriel Claycamp 's cured-meat business, closed on Beacon Hill - was planning to take over space in West Seattle.

TRACKS WITH A VIEW Looking north, between the Rainier and Tukwila stations. W e are weeks away from living in a real city.

When light rail trains start running between downtown Seattle to Tukwila next month, Mayor Greg Nickels has said he hopes many people will ditch their cars and ride the rail instead.

PLATFORM Surface station off South Lander Street - just below the red "SODO" sign that's visible from Beacon Hill and Interstate 5. CONNECTIONS Sodo busway.

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This morning, a gaggle of elected glad handers and reporters piled onboard a Sound Transit light-rail train for the first complete preview trip from the bus tunnel in downtown Seattle to the Tukwila station.

I'm liveblogging from onboard the first end to end test run of Sound Transit's new Central Link light rail system.

Q: How does Colleen Harris know when baseball is back in town? Simple: when baseball traffic backs up her regular commute from Mercer Island to her West Seattle neighborhood.

A wandering young black bear was spotted again Friday morning in Shoreline. King County sheriff spokesman John Urquhart said a man saw the bear in his backyard about 5 a.m. "He sees bear, bear sees him, bear takes off over the back fence and hasn't been seen since," Urquhart said.