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Ballard and North Seattle teens are being mugged on their way home from school
Ashley Hiruko

October 25, 2023 / 3:52 pm
A neighborhood ice rink says goodbye after 60 years

This week Seattle says goodbye to an ice skating rink that's been around for generations. Owners of the Highland Ice Arena in Shoreline say it’s a bittersweet end for the family business.
Casey Martin

October 14, 2022 / 11:59 am
With light rail as fuel, Seattle's Northgate is ready to grow

This week, a lot of people tried light rail and got off at Northgate to look around. As they exited the station, many of them were greeted with a neighborhood undergoing massive change.
Joshua McNichols

October 06, 2021 / 7:11 pm
Here's what light rail means to these North Seattle commuters

Three new light rail stations open this Saturday in North Seattle at Northgate, Roosevelt, and the University District. It’s an important moment for Seattle. For the first time, North and South Seattle will really be connected by light rail. It's a dream that's at least 25 years old. We asked people what this moment means for them.
Joshua McNichols

September 30, 2021 / 5:39 pm
Serial rapists targeted women on Aurora. This woman got justice

In June 2017, Robin Curtis lived in a tent one block away from busy Aurora Avenue in Seattle.
Kate Walters

December 13, 2019 / 5:30 pm
'His eyes, he kind of looked at me.' Inside the mayhem in northeast Seattle

Two people were killed and two injured in a carjacking and shooting spree in Northeast Seattle Wednesday evening.
Isolde Raftery

March 27, 2019 / 8:31 pm
How to convince parents to vaccinate their kids?

This reluctance to vaccinate has shown up in two very different communities in Seattle – liberal white families and the Somali immigrant community.
Kamna Shastri

March 01, 2019 / 9:55 pm
What's that big yellow box perched on Phinney Ridge?

The air raid siren is about the size of a VW Beetle, weighs almost 3 tons and was loud enough to be heard a mile and a half away.
Katherine Banwell

January 31, 2019 / 9:26 pm
Seattle's growth may push out this community of low-income seniors

Holcyon Mobile Home Park has been a quiet neighborhood for years. Now that it's for sale, its residents are rallying to save one of the last parks in the city.
Casey Martin

January 28, 2019 / 12:48 pm
Some Seattle school PTAs can afford extra teachers. Should they spread the wealth?

Roosevelt High School in north Seattle is a fundraising machine. The school’s fundraising groups have $3.5 million in assets. Its foundation has paid for MacBooks, microscopes, professional cameras — and a bear costume that cost $1,250.
Isolde Raftery

October 29, 2018 / 6:50 am

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