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New Facilities Open on Elliott Bay Trail, Honoring Indigenous Roots

Seattle just celebrated the grand reopening of Myrtle Edwards and Centennial Parks, with upgrades fueled with $56 million in private donations. The overhaul included several nods to the land's Indigenous people and their Salish culture.

Ballard Farmers Market to host 4th annual Pride Celebration Day on Sunday

The Ballard Farmers Market will host its fourth annual Pride Celebration Day this Sunday, June 14, with a series of events throughout the morning. The celebration begins with a Pride ... Read more

Zahilay Outlines Affordability, Safety Priorities in First State of the County Address

From affordable housing and expanded child care to new bus routes and violence prevention funding, Zahilay used his first State of the County speech to spotlight early wins and future priorities.

Beaver spotted at the Ballard Locks

A beaver was spotted at the Ballard Locks on Tuesday. Leslie Rome shared the below video of the beaver, which she said she spotted on the Magnolia side of the ... Read more

Mediums Collective Brings Raza Pride to Capitol Hill

Tubman Center 'Turns Soil' on New Rainier Beach Health Center

Focused on serving communities of color, the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom is aiming to deliver culturally-competent care for 12,000 patients at a new Rainier Beach facility that started construction on June 5.

Salmonberry Goods taking open-ended break from Ballard Farmers Market

Salmonberry Goods announced that it is taking an open-ended break from the Ballard Farmers Market, with Sunday, June 14, marking its final market day for the foreseeable future. In a ... Read more

COLUMN | When Corporations Leave, Seattle Communities Pay the Price. It's Time to Invest Locally.

2. As major companies cut jobs and seek subsidies, Marcus Harrison Green makes the case for supporting worker-owned, family-run, and neighborhood businesses that keep wealth circulating locally.

Seattle Leaders Push Back on Plan to Shortchange City in New Countywide Tax

A 0.1% countywide sales tax hike is on deck for later this week, largely to fund road improvements outside cities and towns. Seattle city leaders are arguing that a proposed cap diverting several million dollars per year to other cities and towns is unfair.

Fire damages Ballard home and kitchen of longtime farmers market vendors

A fire at a Ballard home near 30th Ave NW and NW 59th St on Tuesday night caused extensive damage to the residence and destroyed a food production kitchen used ... Read more

Donations help family of Auburn girl who died in accident

Only days before her eighth birthday, Hazel Bryant was playing in her Auburn neighborhood with family nearby on May 22 when she was fatally struck by a car backing out of a driveway.

SIFF Reviews: “Are You Native?” “Powwow People”

When it comes to curating and programming — choosing which films get put into a certain category or get paired with another film for the maximum movie-goer experience — the folks over at Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) are doing everything right, because these two great documentaries (short doc and feature-length doc) that came out in this year’s SIFF are both Indigenous-made, both related to the Puget Sound and both feature (in some capacity) the master of Master of Ceremonies Reuben Little Head doing what he does best as a popular Powwow host throughout the west.