Eastlake News

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.

A FREE Family Health & Fitness Night hosted by The Hope Heart Institute and Molina Healthcare is happening at West Seattle Elementary School on May 21 from 5:30pm-8:00pm. The school is located at 6760 34th Ave SW.

This Thursday, May 23rd, the Queen Anne Historical Society will be hosting its annual meeting at the Seattle Church of Christ at 7pm.

Following up on the Seattle Public Utilities announcement published here last night regarding work starting today to place reflective red rings on the city's 70 remaining low-flow hydrants, so firefighters can make fast decisions when arriving at fire scenes - we now have the map and list of locations from SPU.

In Director District 5, which includes Capitol Hill, the Central Area, Beacon Hill and downtown, Kay Smith-Blum is stepping down from her board seat after one term.

Tony Award-winning producer Junkyard Dog Productions has just announced that leading man Zachary Levi, star of TV's "Chuck," Disney's feature film Tangled and the upcoming Thor: The Dark World, will make his Broadway debut starring opposite Broadway and television ingnue Krysta Rodriguez in First Date , Broadway's new romantic musical comedy.

Punk-rockers Alkaline Trio have begun an extensive spring and summer outing in support of their just-released eighth studio effort, "My Shame Is True." Thetrio continues the in-progress run Tuesday in New York City, and treks across the nation for three weeks.

The street had been scheduled to stay closed until 5 a.m. Monday morning but it reopened at 8 a.m. Sunday because crews quickly completed prep work for the west phase of Mercer corridor project.

Looking for a hotel with charm and character in Seattle ? Check out the historic Alexis Hotel, originally built in 1901.

They didn't see it coming and Cords himself was not prepared for how such a revelation would so completely upend his life.

Click that map for a larger version, showing the plan along Alki for this morning's West Seattle 5K , followed by the Summer Streets festival .

There has been a lot of concern about this increasingly upward trend of Micro-Housing, also known as "APODments", small, single occupancy units sometimes with shared kitchens.

A felon who police say was in possession of a firearm was arrested following a early Saturday morning shooting in North Seattle that wounded a man.

Community means cooperation and that's what was in evidence May 18 as Sustainable West Seattle and some willing volunteers came together at Westcrest Park to create what they called a Presto Garden.

Xander Roberts, 6, plays make-believe in the gun turret of a B-25 bomber Saturday at Aviation Day.

SPD Blotter reports the arrests are in connection with a shooting earlier today in South Seattle.

At 6:15 a.m., May 17, a Boeing 737-400 Alaska Cargo Combi arrived at Sea-Tac Airport with much fanfare to unload 24,000 pounds of recently-caught Copper River king and sockeye salmon via processors, Ocean Beauty, Trident, and Copper River seafoods.