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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.

Friends have set up a fund to help a family that lost their home and nearly everything in it in a Greenwood fire early Monday morning.

Sustainable Ballard will be hosting a workshop to inform locals about the City of Seattle RainWise program tonight at The RE Store from 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. The program has been recently expanded and is offering Ballard property owners up to a 100% rebate for the installation of rain gardens or cisterns.

This edition of The WSBeat contains summaries written from reports on cases handled recently by Southwest Precinct officers - generally cases that have not already appeared here in breaking-news coverage or West Seattle Crime Watch reports, but that might at least answer the question "what WERE all those police doing on my block?" Or on the bridge ... (more)

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Jamie Boudreau of Canon makes his smoky fall drink "Skull & Blackberrries" with 1776 rye, rossbacher, blackberry and blueberry smoke.

The Southwest Seattle Historical Society 's Log House Museum is decked for the holidays - just in time for a wave of special events to roll into the Alki Beach landmark.

During the holiday season, Americans across the country have a unique opportunity to strengthen their local economies, support their communities, and get great services and products by shopping small-shopping at small businesses, that is.