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You may have heard the radio ads: Seattle Children's Hospital says it needs to grow from 250 beds to 600 in the next 20 years.

As the Seattle Times reported this morning, there was an early morning fire on 11th Avenue between Republican and Mercer.

Firefighters and police had not one, but two meetings in Greenwood to discuss the latest in the string of arsons in the neighborhood.

Seattle Police are receiving some new clues as they search for the person who shot and killed Officer Tim Brenton.

Berkeley officials are expected to make a decision Tuesday on the hiring of a new police chief.

SEATTLE, Washington , November 3, 2009 - Conservation and energy groups have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking the agency to object to an air pollution permit granted to TransAlta Corporation's coal-burning power plant in Centralia, Washington, one of the largest suppliers of base load power in the Pacific ...

Photo: The TransAlta power plant in Centralia, Washington (Photo by Robert Ashworth)

A Seattle woman says she's too traumatized to stay in her own home after a raccoon attack sent her and her dog to the ER.

DNA evidence collected from the scene of Officer Tim Brenton's Oct. 31 homicide and the arson of four police vehicles nine days earlier matched Christopher J. Monfort, the man shot Friday by homicide detectives at his Tukwila apartment, police said.

The assault trial of a former King County sheriff's deputy has been put on hold over concerns that the man suspected of killing a Seattle police officer on Halloween night may have been motivated by the deputy's actions.

Another fire has been set in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood, the fourth fire since Sunday night.

For a moment, as the giant concrete elephant tipped in the wind, everyone was on edge.

Moments after the first returns were posted in the Seattle mayor's race, Mike McGinn's volunteer field director took the stage at the Capitol Hill party.

Officer Tim Brenton, who was gunned down on October 31, was laid to rest Friday in Seattle, Washington.

On Nov. 24 a West Seattle hometown boy becomes King Countya s new Executive, with a cabinet of 22, plus 13,000 full time employees under him, and nearly two million King County residents to serve.

The couple in the plastic chairs at the Northgate public library was typical of about a fifth of Seattle voters, a recent poll said.

Former school advisor said man was 'natural leader' At one point he wanted to be a policeman.

A man was found beaten to death Wednesday morning in a homeless camp, and another homeless man with a history of assaults is being held on $500,000 bail.

Mike McGinn stretched his lead over Joe Mallahan to 1,209 votes Friday afternoon in Seattle's mayoral race, as elections officials released a new count of 20,000 ballots.

Law enforcement officers from throughout the region are gathering to honor slain Officer Timothy Brenton with a long procession and large funeral service at KeyArena.

Two more businesses were damaged by flames early Thursday in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood , and fire investigators said both were deliberately set - bringing to eight the total number of arsons there in recent weeks.