Downtown News

Looks like it's finally going to happen: Seattle's new Hard Rock Cafe will likely open in January or February of 2010.

Olympia's decades-long quest to build a municipal parking garage downtown has hit another roadblock.

Riot police move east on Pine Street as they drive protesters up to Capitol Hill on Nov.

No special place for media to shoot the Macy's Holiday Parade downtown, so we just picked a spot - and got lucky: The Chief Sealth High School-Denny International Middle School combined marching bands, directed by Marcus Pimpleton , stopped right in front of us for an entire Christmas medley .

Get ski and boarding conditions all winter long with webcams, snow alerts and more at seattletimes.com/snowsports Downtown Seattle welcomes Santa to town with marching bands, drill teams, balloon floats and thousands of spectators at the Macy's Holiday Parade , starting at 8:45 Friday morning.

The Seattle Times is reporting that Seattle Public Schools and Seattle Center have reached a tentative deal to demolish the aging Memorial Stadium.

It is an issue so important to Seattle drivers, a lot of people feel it cost the mayor his job.

Back at the end of August, I posted some stats for Seattle Home Sales breaking Seattle into North of Downtown, North of Downtown to 85th and South of Downtown.

Artis Kalsons, Fairmont Olympic Hotel's pastry chef, builds a gingerbread Eiffel Tower for the holidays.

It wasn't spontaneous, but the city of Seattle hopes it drew attention. On Saturday, city transportation leaders spoke at Pacific Place, and on cue, a "flash mob" broke out and started cutting a rug to the old classic song "Safety Dance." SDOT says it was the first time they knew any city department had tried such a thing.

Belltown became famous in the days of "grunge" music and the "grunge" look. So there's no small irony in a business group urging the neighborhood's condo and property owners to pay extra taxes so they can make their streets as clean as an indoor shopping mall.

The California-based performer--whose real name is Corey Scoffern--will kick off his "How the Grouch Stole Christmas" trek Dec.

Seattle is one of the few western cities that offers a large amount of street food vendors throughout the city.

Ready or not, the holidays are coming. And with them, the downtown Seattle trimming, such as the tree that tops the trampled walkways of Pike Place Market and the star over the downtown Macy's -- both of which will be hoisted in place in the next week.

THESE 15 BRANCHES will be open five days a week, a total of 35 hours: Columbia, Delridge, Fremont, Green Lake, High Point, International District/Chinatown, Madrona-Sally Goldmark, Magnolia, Montlake, NewHolly, Northgate, Queen Anne, South Park, University, Wallingford.

Seattle is a beautiful city with its own special charm. Once you go there, you'll want to go back again.

The housing market continues to stabilize nationally, according to the third-quarter report from Seattle-based real estate site Zillow.com. But a neighborhood-by-neighborhood look at Seattle shows that fortunes can vary in the distance of a few bus stops.

"Strong African Maidens,'' a group effort by Sistah Quilt, displayed at the Pacific Northwest African American Museum.

That noise you heard Monday night in Seattle was the collective wailing of the city's big shots as they came to grips with the fact that Mike McGinn will be the next mayor.

My second pizza stop in Seattle, after Serious Pie and some digestion time spent at the Space Needle, was the Tutta Bella on Westlake Avenue in the area known as South Lake Union.