Eastlake News

May 16, 7:28 p.m., 6200 Block of 4th Ave NW -- A victim called police reporting that her home had been burglarized.

We start today's West Seattle Crime Watch with details on a street robbery - the type of crime that, according to what Southwest Precinct Lt.

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.

The most stolen ware in Seattle area bars, like this one at Ba Bar. Some local watering holes may need to install metal detectors for those on the way out of the bar.

A dog who was left in a vehicle was returned to his owners in West Seattle, Washington after an investigation found no cause for animal cruelty charges.

Thanks to both Schmitz Park Elementary teacher Alison Aylesworth and West Seattle Food Bank operations manager Steve Curry for sharing the word of a cool event at SP today.

Seattle Police Detective Jill Vanskike spends her days focused on residential and industrial burglaries, from tracking down perpetrators in real time when a 911 call comes in to evaluating evidence in the aftermath, tracking stolen goods that show up at pawn shops, and keeping an eye on known crooks who have been released back onto the streets ... (more)

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.

An update from SDOT as Phase 3 of the Delridge Way repaving project proceeds - the next intersection closure is tentatively scheduled to start at the end of next week: Most of the intersection of Delridge Way SW and SW Holden Street will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday, May 31, until 6 a.m. Monday, June 3, for roadway restoration and storm drain ... (more)

Heading for a 4-day holiday weekend? Many are this year, particularly since school is out Friday through Monday for Seattle Public Schools and others that follow its calendar.

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 .