Eastlake News

SEATTLE A recent spike in violent crimes at Seattle city parks is prompting city leaders to take action.

He's joking, of course. As the support act for bluesy alterna-rockers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, thenewno2 has only so much time to give the audience a taste of its music.

Members of a Meetup-group pet Casper the cow at the Precious Life Animal Sanctuary in Sequim, Wash.

Cornish College of the Arts is studying whether to build a 19-story residential tower next to its main campus at 1000 Lenora St., in downtown Seattle.

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

A heroic Seattle police dog brought down a wanted felon on Tuesday night near North 113th Street and Corliss Avenue.

Seattle's central waterfront is getting a huge, decade-long face-lift: a new tunnel for State Route 99, a new ferry dock, a new seawall, pedestrian promenades, maybe even a mist machine to remind summer visitors that they're in Seattle.

Across Seattle, reports alt-weekly The Stranger , posters are appearing linking gay rights and gun rights in ways that are just freaking out the usual control-freaky suspects.

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.

The Admiral Way hill north of the West Seattle Bridge is in for more changes, according to an announcement just in from SDOT .

Don't worry if yours isn't one of the lucky 150 mouths to bite into a free slider at Skillet tomorrow.

As usual, SIFF's opening-night gala was way too heavy on preshow speechifying, leaving hundreds of excited Joss Whedon fans bored and dejected for a full hour before their movie god took the stage.

A butcher operating out of Pike Place Market in Seattle has been feeding pigs all of those "useless" stems, root bulbs, and "over sized" marijuana leaves produced as by-product at the local medical dispensary.

Every year, you get just a few chances for a close-up look at one of West Seattle's true gems - the Alki Point Lighthouse .

First - before two reader reports - here's something that likely would have topped West Seattle Crime Watch 52 years ago: Anne Higuera from longtime WSB sponsor Ventana Construction was working on a project in Ballard when that West Seattle story from a 1961 edition of the Seattle P-I, stuffed in the walls, caught her eye.

The B-Town Blog is pleased to welcome a new business to downtown Burien and a new Advertiser to our site - Suite Arrangements is a well-known consignor of fine furnishings in West Seattle.

In a tradition reaching back 35 years, the Alki Masonic Lodge held their Annual School Awards on May 20 to honor the hard work, both in the classroom and the community, of eight juniors each from Chief Sealth and West Seattle High School.

In the early hours of Sunday morning a hit and run driver collided with an SPD officer's vehicle on patrol on 3rd Ave NW in Phinney Ridge.

Capitol Hill is home to Seattle's start-up of the year. Belmont Ave's Simply Measured took home the title last week at the 2013 GeekWire Awards .

Kerry Sear is executive chef and director of food and beverage at ART in Four Seasons Hotel Seattle, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary this year.