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A man fell to his death Friday morning on I-5 south below the Convention Center.
Seattle Fire says it responded to the reported fall from the I-5 overpass from Capitol Hill just after 11 AM in an incident in the southbound lanes of I-5. Continue reading
Chef Zac Reynolds and Nile Klein of Cook and Weaver at its opening in 2017
For a chef who creates their own place on Capitol Hill, there are paths that might lead someday to your own restaurant group with 12 unique concepts and 20 locations.
And there are simpler routes that don’t lead to much more than good times and happy memories.
Chef-driven Cook Weaver has announced it will close with one last New Year’s Day of service after a decade in Capitol Hill’s historic Loveless Building.
“Why are we closing? Well, have you ever looked forward to a new chapter with anticipation, while also in tender thanksgiving for all that has brought you to this moment?,” owner Zac Reynolds wrote in the E Roy restaurant’s announcement. “That’s pretty much where I am. In truth, I really want to spend more time with my kid and my wife on evenings and weekends – it’s that simple.” Continue reading
The Seattle Police Department’s arson and bomb squad is investigating after someone busted out the window of a Tesla parked on First Hill early Saturday and set it on fire, destroying the vehicle, police say.
According to police, the incident took place just after 1 AM near Harborview and was captured on video as the suspect can be seen walking up to the car parked near 9th and Alder, breaking the window, and lighting the car on fire.
The incident comes after a flurry of similar acts earlier this year as protests grew against the company over CEO Elon Musk’s short-lived but damaging Department of Government Efficiency and its corporate-style cost-cutting of the federal government under the Trump administration. Continue reading
The Seattle City Council Tuesday afternoon is expected to approve a new contract with the union representing the city’s police officers that mixes big raises with agreements that officials say will open the way for the city to grow its CARE Department and dispatch its crisis responders to 911 situations without a police officer to accompany them.
The collective bargaining agreement forged between the Harrell administration and the Seattle Police Officers Guild comes as SPD Chief Shon Barnes faces an uncertain future under incoming Mayor-elect Katie Wilson. Barnes and his top lieutenants continue to tout a reversal in hiring struggles at the Seattle Police Department and say that improved staffing should begin to bear fruit in the coming year.
Building on a previous 23% retroactive raise, the new agreement grants officers a 6% retroactive increase for 2024 and 4.1% in 2025, followed by annual raises of 2.7% in 2026, and a CPI-based adjustment of 3–4% in 2027. Continue reading
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After burning through smaller allocations, city officials tell CHS there is more than $3 million in the coming year being dedicated to helping small businesses deal with burglaries including special funding earmarked for Capitol Hill.
The update comes as CHS reported last week on the headaches of broken glass, plywood, and roll-down security doors Capitol Hill and Central District restaurants, cafes, bars, and shops are dealing with this holiday season.
While TV news follow-ups might make it sound like small businesses are on their own, the city has put more resources in place to help that can do more than just replace broken glass. Continue reading
A few weeks back as CHS examined the progressive sweep in the November election led by Katie Wilson’s defeat of incumbent Bruce Harrell, we looked at the block by block, precinct by precinct maps documenting the victories.
They showed the latest adjustments to the now familiar political fault lines in the city where the less wealthy, more densely developed neighborhoods swing left while the wealthiest areas ringing Seattle’s waterfronts swing right.
A map we didn’t share then, we bring you now as an invitation to a District 3 area to rejoin its city.
In November, there were only two precincts in the city where residents voted against renewing the city’s $1.3 billion education levy needed to support a growing spending plan for childcare and preschool, K-12 academic supports, and the Seattle Promise program. Continue reading
By Matt Dowell
Businesses and property owners have continued to call for more to be done to address street disorder and public safety concerns around Pike/Pine — especially as the area is prepared for the opening of a county Crisis Care Center in 2027. But an effort for owners to organize themselves to pay for safety and cleanup resources remains on the drawing board.
The push to form Pike/Pine property owners into a new Business Improvement Area will continue into 2026.
In February, CHS reported that the Seattle Office of Economic Development advocated for a new BIA which would add a special assessment for property owners along Pike and Pine. The fee could directly fund cleanup and safety initiatives within the BIA alongside other business district revitalization and management efforts. Similar organizations fund efforts along Broadway and on 15th Ave E.
Per BIA rules, a coalition of roughly 60% of the property owners within the proposed zone would need to sign on.
Along Pike and Pine, that hasn’t happened yet. Continue reading
Somebody dropped off what looked like 10 pounds of cocaine in front of the East Precinct headquarters Sunday afternoon.
Police say the unknown subject left a yellow container filled with “multiple clear plastic baggies containing a white powdery substance” at the front entrance to the precinct at 12th and Pine just before 12:30 PM.
“A field test confirmed that the substance was cocaine, with a total weight of 4,588 grams,” SPD reports.
Cocaine at that volume could be worth more than $150,000 depending on quality. Continue reading
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Sorry, Angle Lake, we never visited.
Southbound trains leaving Capitol Hill Station are now identified as headed to “Federal Way Downtown” on the Sound Transit reader boards and arrival screens.
Meanwhile, light rail service across the I-90 bridge to the Eastside is slated to begin by May.
Over the weekend, a $2.5 billion, nearly eight mile extension to the system’s 1 Line debuted connecting to three new stations including the new southern terminus in downtown Federal Way. Continue reading
“The police, their purpose is to serve and protect right? And we agree with that purpose but we do not agree with them because of what they have been doing,” Mays, wearing the white mask, said during the newly unearthed interview (Image: Converge Media/Q13)
A jury trial in the wrongful death lawsuit over a teen shot and killed in an unsolved slaying inside the CHOP protest zone was slated to begin in King County Superior Court Monday morning.
New video found among the hours of reporting by Omari Salisbury and Converge Media has also shined new light on what drew 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. to the camp and the 2020 protest in Seattle.
The deadly shooting — one of two killings of Black teens in the camp — came early on a Monday morning amid a night of drive-by shooting fears around the protest zone. Mays was shot inside a Jeep Cherokee that had been driven at high speeds through the streets around the CHOP camp and died as camp security and medic volunteers worked to save him while Seattle Police and Seattle Fire refused to enter the protest area.
His teen companion in the vehicle survived but suffered a brain injury. It was a final straw as Seattle Police stormed the protest encampments and cleared the area two days later.
No suspects have been publicly identified in the case. Continue reading
