Rainier Valley News

Sound Transit Link Light Rail: it will take many years to change the car-dominated Rainier Valley Let's not fool ourselves about 'walkability' Walkable neighborhoods take more than density and sidewalks.

Youth violence is not the fault of children and teens, but instead represents the failure of adults to instill key values and provide basic services to young people, one of the nation's leading child advocates said at youth-violence summit in Seattle Tuesday.

Surface level, in the median of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South, just south of South Henderson Street.

Tanner Guthrie munches on a cookie during a picnic for families of Little Pilgrim School at Lincoln Park in West Seattle.

A Sound Transit Link light-rail train heads north along Martin Luther King Jr. Way South, just south of South Myrtle Street as it passes through the Othello station.

Some of us who have lived on the plateau are familiar with parts of the story of the Reard-Freed Farmstead, particularly the Freed half, which we will also review here.

King County prosecutors have charged a Seattle man with assaulting police after he was mistakenly released from jail while being held for allegedly breaking into a Rainier Valley church during a blood-smeared vandalism rampage earlier this month.

At the Rose Petals Restaurant and Lounge, the catfish is served with a 180-degree view of chaos.

Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times A Sound Transit Link light-rail train heads south along Martin Luther King Jr.

The weekend begins with Bjork in a concert documentary reviewed by Sara Brickner : For all the sad Bjork fanatics who missed her 2007 Volta tour, or for those who were there and want to relive the experience over and over again, here's the documentary, Voltaic .

Developer Othello Partners plans to break ground in July on a $70-million, 420,000-square-foot project in Rainier Valley, despite the slow economy.

Magnolia's Gay Avenue West may be the most blatant of our city's thoroughly fey thoroughfares, but it's certainly not the only one.

Bassim Dowidar's family is leaving Southeast Seattle. After multiple break-ins, he's become convinced his bad fortune is rooted in the area's poverty, and the young physician sees no end to that.

Too bad Doc Locks isn't out here in Seattle : 623-9430 - If all else fails I'll put in an order.

Botched communication by the King County prosecutor's office led to the mistaken release Wednesday of a Seattle man who was held for breaking into a Rainier Valley church during a blood-smeared rampage that destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property last weekend.

An estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people work in the flatlands just south of downtown Seattle.

When light rail trains start running between downtown Seattle to Tukwila next month, Mayor Greg Nickels has said he hopes many people will ditch their cars and ride the rail instead.

PLATFORM Surface station off South Lander Street - just below the red "SODO" sign that's visible from Beacon Hill and Interstate 5. CONNECTIONS Sodo busway.

You may recall how, despite the imminent shift to digital TV, many stores aren't carrying low-cost digital TV converters .

Susan Farrington, third-generation owner of Dawson Plumbing on Capitol Hill, stands in front of her store whose sales have dropped by 57 percent because of nearby construction.