Eastlake News

Bundle up and get out! Hundreds of your neighbors in West Seattle have been getting ready all year for this one huge day - the LONG list of highlights from the WSB Holiday Events/Info Guide and our year-round calendar : SCHMITZ PARK ELEMENTARY HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: At the school , 10 am-3 pm.

Seattle police are hitting the streets during the weekend cold snap to keep those without homes safe.

The sun had just set when the Argosy Cruises Christmas Ship and its accompanying vessels arrived at Lowman Beach tonight, first of two stops on its first of two nights visiting West Seattle this season.

Lots of student creativity at the Schmitz Park Elementary holiday bazaar/arts-crafts-etc.

The Henry M. Jackson Federal Building, in Downtown Seattle . The foreground shows part of the main arch of the Burke Building, which used to stand there.

SDOT released a traffic advisory report that lists all the events and closures, and advises motorists to be aware and anticipate traffic delays in the downtown area.

Oliver ), Fagin and the Arftul Dodger , in The 5th Avenue Theatre's production of "Oliver."

Receive FREE access by logging in to or creating your Spokesman.com account. SEATTLE - Today marks the anniversary of the day Washington's legal marijuana law took effect, and hundreds of people are expected to celebrate by lighting up beneath the Space Needle at a party permitted by the city of Seattle.

Crowds of happy stoners bundled in winter coats are celebrating the anniversary of legal marijuana in Washington state by sparking up under Seattle's Space Needle.

Capitol Hill Run by the folks from Tango next door, owner Travis Rosenthal and manager Kate Perry, Rumba is an island gem on the Pike Street Hillclimb.

Any Charles Dickens ' tale basically has the same theme, working through adversity to get to hope.

The photo of a male Anna's hummingbird is courtesy of Mark Wangerin , one of several bird fans who suggest we remind you to thaw your feeders and bird baths during this mega-cold snap, so the birds have a fighting chance too.

The longstanding Magnolia Boulevard Vegetation Management Plan , done in 1998, has only been minimally carried out until last year and this summer, when major work was completed in September.

When legendary singer-songwriter Joe Henry decided to book his first ever solo acoustic headlining tour, he selected just four cities.

Fengluan Qin, a 50-year-old from Queens, pleaded guilty on Thursday to stealing thousand of dollars from elderly Chinese women.

That's the crane at 5020 California SW, where The Blake is under construction; so far, it's the only one of West Seattle's three current construction cranes bearing Christmas lights.

Part V is part of a continuing series to acquaint bicyclists with popular bicycling routes in Seattle.

Several bicycle and pedestrian projects can go ahead now that the Puget Sound Regional Council on Thursday selected the projects for federal funding.

So if you have to get back to West Seattle sometime soon, consider taking 99 past the bridge, to enter via Highland Park.

That's the official West Seattle Junction Christmas tree, one of three in our area that will be officially lit by mid-weekend.