Downtown News

A dognapping in downtown Seattle took a strange turn thanks to an observant dog daycare worker...and a little luck.

An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol said.

Rafael Abreau, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center, says the temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centred 10 kilometres west northwest of Greenville, and about 40 kilometres southwest of Susanville.

A leading music school in Washington State, The Academy of Music Northwest provides different levels of rigorous college-prep music classes and extensive performance opportunities for talented young musicians between the ages of 4 -18. Day and night our luxury service connects all of Bellevue, Seattle, and Tacoma.

At a luncheon this week for the Urban Land Institute's local sponsors, guest speaker - and Seattle restaurateur - Tom Douglas toyed with the idea of abandoning the Seattle monorail.

The Northwest Folklife Festival can be overwhelming - though part of the fun is stumbling on a great act you've never heard of - but if you're looking for some suggestions, here's a day-by-day list.

That's not the question you usually hear, but you'll get some fascinating answers to it at this year's Northwest Folklife Festival, which starts Friday and runs through Memorial Day.

A Seattle butcher said he's found a way to marry marijuana and meat - by feeding pot plants to pigs.

Home-made mechanical gadgetry will race, run mazes and clash with metallic might in the eighth annual Northwest Robotics Festival this weekend at the Spark Museum of Electrical Invention.

Catch a robber, get a pizza : Actually 200 pizzas go to the person who helps track down the robber who held up a pizza restaurant in Spokane yesterday.

Luis Negron Elliott Bay Book Company, Thurs. 5/23 at 7 p.m., FREE Spanish language author and queer activist Luis Negron reads from Mundo Negron, his debut collection of short stories.

By Jessica Davis Customers young and old have been lured in by the sweet pie aroma coming from Capitol Hill's new Pie Bar since it opened on May 1. The new business, at 1361 E. Olive Way, combines the award-winning pie-making talents of Alyssa Lewis and the mixology skills of her twin sister, Natalie Delucchi .

Does it feel a bit like January out there today? Your skin does not deceive you.

Nearly four years after the end of the recession, King County unemployment hit 4.4 percent in April.

The Center will hold its grand opening and tour from 5-8 p.m. Thursday with the dedication starting at 6 p.m., at 2310 S. Lane St., Seattle.

Creatively focused, eco-obsessed, possessing an urban sensibility and locavore leanings, beautiful without being braggy-the new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art might well be considered the embodiment of the island community itself.

Sorry, Capitol Hill. You are so last week. All of a sudden, restaurants and bars are competing for real estate in a new neighborhood.

For the past five years, I've played "kitchen liaison" at the Fred Hutch Premier Chefs Dinner and fundraising auction.

Of the 52 mayors who've run our fair city in the last 144 years, how many do you think were Seattle natives? Precisely one.

High school valedictorian, college football standout and UW-educated lawyer who built a career in his hometown, where a mayor told him at age 12 he should consider public office.