Hundreds clean up south downtown Seattle before MLB All-Star Game
About 450 people volunteered Friday morning to clean up the neighborhoods around T-Mobile Park ahead of MLB All-Star Week July 7-11.
Day: June 24, 2023
Tom Nelson, Seattle’s fishing evangelist, wants you to catch fish to save fish
For 20 years, on his AM talk radio show, Nelson has tried to teach people how to catch fish as a means to get them to care about fish.
Harrell chastises ex-SPD Chief Carmen Best for refusing to talk about protests
Mayor Bruce Harrell, in a four-page letter, expressed “disappointment in Chief Best’s refusal to sit for an interview on this matter of public concern.”
Seattle driver sentenced to prison in fatal hit-and-run near Seward Park
A driver was sentenced for the hit-and-run death of a 63-year-old bicyclist near Seward Park in 2021.
‘Elephant Man’ at SIFF is hard to watch. Here’s why it’s necessary
This year’s Seattle Film Festival has many fabulous programs, and one of 2023’s crown jewels is the retrospective “Dreams and Nightmares: The Films of David Lynch.” Among the films is “The Elephant Man” from 1980, which is…
WA researchers remember red flags and discoveries on OceanGate submersible
A series of dives off Friday Harbor in 2018 illuminate the Everett-based company’s experimental approach to underwater exploration, passengers say.
There might be a new calf in this endangered orca pod of the Salish Sea
The Center for Whale Research shared photos Friday that show what appears to be a new calf in L pod of southern resident orcas.
On the road between ‘hogwash and baloney’ on WA’s high gas prices
Democrats flagrantly soft-pedaled the impact on gas prices in their climate change policy. That may be because previous efforts that were honest about it all failed.
Rant and Rave: Students didn’t let fire alarm deter them
RAVE to the students and faculty of a local high school Pacific Islander group that held a festival celebrating their culture. Students prepared traditional dishes for the gathering. As the meal was being served, the fire alarm went off. Attendees had …
How LGBTQ+ youth are finding community in Seattle
As some Seattle area hangout spots reopen from the COVID-19 pandemic, some LGBTQ+ youth say they’re finding community again in person, as well as in virtual spaces.