Seattle News

Seattle has become Ramen Central in recent months, with enough new restaurants dedicated to the Japanese dish or chefs adding it to the menu that it made our list of delectable and desirable 2014 food trends .

State transportation officials are doing some preliminary research before they can dig a giant pit in downtown Seattle to repair the tunnel boring machine known as Bertha.

More than 30 families are selling their items this year. You will find tons of high-quality, upcycled baby and kid's clothes, , with brands like Baby Gap, Gymboree, Mini Boden, Nordstrom, Juicy Couture and many others at up to 90% off retail.

Celeste Miles, 18, works for minimum wage at Husky Deli in West Seattle. A new report has found that job prospects for teenagers fell nationwide over 12 years, but more so locally, adding fodder to the debate over a $15 minimum wage for Seattle.

If we want a "waterfront for all" we need to commit to all of our waterfront - including the southern reach of the waterfront along the Duwamish River [" Waterfront wish: Architect has big plans for post-viaduct era ," Local News, March 5].

The Ballard Jazz Festival, Seattle's most convivial and inviting jazz event, has announced that the great saxophonist Sonny Fortune will headline this year.

In lieu of the Skagit River Bridge collapse last May, the Ballard News-Tribune decided to investigate the condition of the Ballard Bridge.

Thanks to Alki photographer David Hutchinson for yet another wonderful West Seattle view - the colorful sunrise, through the recently installed Luna Girls on Alki .

The push to raise the minimum wage in Seattle was just a campaign slogan last fall.

Good spring weather - sunny and high near 60F- on Thursday is a perfect reason to walk around the 'hood and check out the art shows opening for the monthly Capitol Hill Arts Walk , aka your hyper-local affordable art fair.

A designer reveals his latest update for a massive waterfront park that would stretch 26 blocks along Elliott Bay once the Alaskan Way Viaduct is demolished.

I would have sworn when I was younger that I'd never be capable of saying, "I don't want to travel again for a long, long time."

A Park Department & NOAA warning: We walked down to Magnuson Park again, and had to duck an extraordinary number of cars.

Theater Schmeater has announced its 2014 season in a custom-made new home: a 50-seat venue at 2125 Third Ave., in a Belltown residential building owned by the nonprofit Plymouth Housing Group.

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Positive, peaceful and respectful - that's the direction Garfield High School students want to go with Issaquah High after racist tweets by some Issaquah students.

But bands of today provide an all-consuming product well beyond anything Spector did with the Ronettes or anyone else.

Are these the people who will deliver affordable apartments on Capitol Hill? Mike O'Brien, far right says yes As the minimum wage debate rolls on in Seattle, it's worth remembering the underlying premise at play: working people ought to be able to afford some basic standard of living on their hard-earned wages in an increasingly expensive city.

Standing room only. Supporters are wearing purple stickers with slogans; opponents are wearing yellow stickers with slogans.

Another City Council committee has a West Seattle issue on its agenda tomorrow: As first mentioned here last week , the council's Energy Committee meets at 9:30 am tomorrow at City Hall with an agenda including a briefing on City Light 's surplus West Seattle substations .