Eastlake News

On Fridays we feature an adoptable pet from the Seattle Animal Shelter . SAS is located at 2061 15th Ave W , just north of Whole Foods, at the corner of W. Armory Way.

The Seattle Department of Transportation is closing the right lane on southbound Fifth Avenue North between Roy and Republican streets and the center lane on Mercer Street between Taylor and Fifth avenues North beginning Tuesday, July 29, at 6 a.m. until the morning of July 31. This is to accommodate sidewalk work on Fifth Avenue North.

Seattle voters are being asked to take a big leap: Should they vote to create a Seattle Park District, with taxing powers and run by the City Council .

But I make exceptions. And I say the name of C. P. Cavafy with the deepest respect, because for me this Greek man is possibly the greatest Gay poet who ever lived.

More work to protect West Seattle forest land: Seattle Parks plant ecologist Michael Yadrick sent word of a new round of greenbelt restoration happening now - nine acres in the West Duwamish Greenbelt, the city's largest contiguous forest, some of which is shown in our photo above, looking at the greenbelt behind the Parks facility on West Marginal ... (more)

Visitors of the Ballard Boys & Girls Club will probably notice something extra special thanks to Swanson's Nursery.

After seeing the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society's production of "The Mikado" on Sunday, it's clear why so many people enjoy this opera.

Founded in 1891, Seattle University is a Jesuit Catholic university and law school in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

A Top Hat man fresh from prison may be headed back following allegations he betrayed his FBI and Seattle police handlers after going to work as a paid informant.

With the Seattle City Council voting earlier this week to select First Avenue as a future streetcar route, and agreeing to seek up to $75 million in federal money to fund the project, this week's throwback post harkens back to the days when Ballard had streetcars and trolleys running through the neighborhood.

BELL + WHETE Belltown: Somewhat bizarrely, this sibling of Local 360 celebrates the cuisine of the conquering Normans of yore , including "modern interpretations of old world dishes, such as pottage with fried bread, house cured ham + sausages, pork knuckles, venison, boar, and roasted fowl ," from chef Forrest Brunton .

The Seattle King County Coalition on Homelessness accounted for 97 homeless people in Auburn in January during its annual One Night Count.

There are numerous proposals for public spaces on Seattle's new waterfront. One is a swimming pool barge, shown in the foreground, at Pier 62/63.

FLOOR 'TREEHOUSE': Krystal Kelley from Mind Unwind at 2206 California SW in The Admiral District says its Treehouse Lounge is reopening at 4 pm today after a big change - more like an exchange: The lounge will now be on the ground floor, while Mind Unwind 's adult art classes will be on the second floor.

Thanks to Myrtle for sharing the Wednesday afternoon double-rainbow view! Perfect promise of more summery weather returning - in time for tonight's Summer Concerts at Hiawatha show, and more: SAVE LIVES : Be a blood donor - today, with the Bloodmobile at the Clock Tower Plaza on the South Seattle College campus, 10:30 am-4:30 pm, with a 12:30 ... (more)

Nothing spilled when three tanker cars in an oil train from North Dakota derailed at a rail yard early Thursday, but it alarmed environmentalists.

CORRECTS DATE TO JULY 24, NOT JULY 14 - An investigator photographs the scene where a locomotive and cars carrying crude oil went off the track beneath the Magnolia Bridge in the Interbay neighborhood of Seattle, Thursday morning, July 24, 2014.

Hector Barreto is the former head of the Small Business Administration and currently serves as the Chairman of The Latino Coalition.

The Capitol Hill Block Party - Seattle's favorite one-day actual block party-turned three-day corporate-sponsored music festival - is returning to a fenced-in Pike Street for the 17th year this weekend.

Seal Sitters Marine Mammal Stranding Network's final training for the 2014 seal pupping season will take place on August 9th.