Wallingford News

It's a bathroom scare like no other. Your private moments in the bathroom shattered by a water-logged rodent: a rat in the toilet! It's such a concern in Seattle that the Health Department not only keeps a map of all the rat sightings, it hunts rats full time.

Bell Street as it is today. A new park along Bell Street took one of its first steps toward reality last night, as Seattle Parks and Recreation and the firms designing the project asked for community input.

Nov. 10, 11:46 a.m. [Click on sketch to see it larger] We can thank Dick Spady for all the burgers and milk shakes that we can enjoy at his drive-in restaurants in Wallingford, Capitol Hill, Ballard, Lake City and Queen Anne.

Restaurant owner Timur Leno says the damage to his restaurant "Olive You" is worse than he thought.

Seattle City Council incumbents Richard Conlin and Nick Licata are headed back to the council, joined by newcomers Sally Bagshaw and Mike O'Brien. Election returns Tuesday showed all four candidates with commanding leads.

Here comes the new mayor, Mike McGinn. He would do well to hire competent staff, tend to basics and avoid unnecessary fights on the tunnel.

The M~Theory The M~Theory blog looks across the landscape of political and social issues and examines how they impact Bellevue, our region and beyond.

Seattle police are stepping up their patrols in the Greenwood neighborhood after a string of arsons damaged or destroyed businesses.

Every month, a group of food writers/bloggers in Seattle have been getting together to get to know one another, to exchange tips and hints, and to socialize with one another.

SEATTLE With 95 percent of the expected vote counted, KING 5 News is projecting that environmentalist attorney Mike McGinn has won the race for Seattle Mayor over T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan.

Investigators said three more fires overnight in the city's Greenwood neighborhood were intentionally set.

The man who is a suspect in the Halloween night slaying of a Seattle police officer is a 'domestic terrorist' who had explosive devices in his apartment, police officials said Saturday.

That clip from our West Seattle Grand Parade video this past July includes the Denny Middle School Marching Band - and this weekend we have word that Denny's band will march with Chief Sealth High School 's band in the Macy's Holiday Parade downtown the day after Thanksgiving.

Seattle Prostate Institute, an affiliate of Swedish Cancer Institute, is offering free prostate cancer screening tests on Fri., Nov.

Timothy Brenton was a modest man, the kind of guy who would shrug off praise by cracking a joke.

Heidi Hoffman / The Herald Snohomish County Sheriff John Lovick and Lt. John Flood carry a memorial arrangement to the service for Brenton at KeyArena in Seattle on Friday.

Capitol Hill parents -- and parents to be -- might want to plan a drugstore road trip this week.

Tickets are on sale now for classical stars Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk, appearing in Seattle Feb.

If you like live theater, your cup runneth over in West Seattle this weekend - and that's why we call it theatrically thrilling.

Seattle police say a cyclist on Tuesday hit a pedestrian, leaving him with serious head injuries.