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Residents who fall into the Seattle Police Department's North Precinct, which includes the Ballard area, may soon see a new police station.

First, from Highland Park Action Committee , which says it's time for the encampment to move on, chair Carolyn Stauffer says: We've just come back from the City Clerk's office, where we filed a claim.

Going to Seattle Center for the Northwest Folklife Festival next weekend? Though it's not happening in West Seattle, three West Seattleites are involved in making it happen, as we recently found out.

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.

As one LGTBQ group prepares for a Wednesday night march and rally to launch a new "block watch" program on Capitol Hill , someone else has taken to the utility poles of the neighborhood to spread a much different message.

One of the most joyful annual fundraisers in West Seattle is happening right now on the playfield at Pathfinder K-8 on Pigeon Point.

Car Bomb Attacks Hit Across Iraq : At least 54 people have died, nearly 200 are injured , no group has yet claimed responsibility.

His idea was crazy, but his support and the outpouring of grief after Richard Swanson's death last Tuesday is far from insane.

Who needs abstract art when you can buy a rocket instead? Billionaire Paul Allen pocketed more than $43 million selling a painting earlier this week, and now we know what he did with some of the money.

King County search and rescue crews were headed to Mount Si on Sunday afternoon to help an injured hiker.

Seattle Police are investigating a hit-and-run fatality collision that occurred at 12th Avenue South and South Dearborn Street early Sunday morning.

The Olympian reports the woman was seeking payment for medical expenses, plus pain, inconvenience, emotional stress, scaring and other general damages.

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.

A leading music school in Washington State, The Academy of Music Northwest provides different levels of rigorous college-prep music classes and extensive performance opportunities for talented young musicians between the ages of 4 -18. Day and night our luxury service connects all of Bellevue, Seattle, and Tacoma.

Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, political triage by the administration and party leaders in Congress and lack of evidence to date of wrongdoing close to the Oval Office.

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 .

Oxbow has won the Preakness, ruining Orb's bid to capture the Triple Crown. Oxbow led from start to finish.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says pessimists who are forecasting that the economy will not reap sizable benefits from the computer revolution are likely to be proven wrong.

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