One person was reported shot and police were looking for a possible suspect vehicle in an incident under investigation near Denny and East Olive Way early Tuesday.
Police were called to the scene just before 3 AM where a man suffering from a gunshot wound was reported in front of the nightlife businesses along E Olive Way.
Seattle Fire treated the victim and transported him to Harborview. We do not have information on his condition. Continue reading
The blustery winds and widespread power outage that left some bars darkened and some bars miraculously still lit somewhat dampened the Hilloweekend spirit. The calendar may have also had something to do with it.
The weekend before Halloween on Capitol Hill often brings some of the most intense revelry of the holiday — especially when October 31st falls on, say, a Wednesday or a Thursday.
But in 2025 when Halloween aligns with a Friday night, the sexy ghosts, sexy bats, sexy Spidermen, sexy witches, sexy warlocks, sexy Bugonias, and sexy Zohran Mamdanis seem to have been mostly keeping their powder dry.
CHS still found a few revelers out and about despite the power outage, terrible weather, and calendar. Continue reading
Grayson (Image: SF.gov)
As it touts the success of the program in keeping people housed, King County’s “Health Through Housing” Capitol Hill apartment building is ready to welcome its first residents after nearly three years of planning and preparation.
Just off Broadway, the four-story, 35-unit Sharyn Grayson House has been prepared to provide supportive housing for “queer, transgender, two-spirit, Black, Indigenous, people of color” experiencing chronic homelessness as part of the county initiative,
The Lavender Rights Project and Chief Seattle Club residential building is named to honor Grayson, a Transgender advocate and Trans community icon.
The county says the opening of Sharyn Grayson House will add to the success of its Health Through Housing developments in helping to break the cycles of homelessness. Continue reading
From the CHS Facebook Group
No, those stop signs were not another rogue project of the Capitol Hill Department of Transportation.
A new 4-way stop at 21st and John that appeared and then disappeared earlier this month is now permanently installed at this busy crossing near the Meany Middle School and Miller Playfield. Continue reading
A stabbing aboard a Metro bus brought a large emergency response to Pike and Minor Sunday.
Emergency units were called to the area just after 4:30 PM to the reported stabbing. Seattle Fire responded to treat the victim reported still aboard the Metro coach. The victim was being treated for non-life threatening injuries according to emergency radio updates. Continue reading
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(Image: Alex Garland/CHS)
View latest outage updates hereSo far, the power outage has remained limited after electrical equipment exploded and caught fire at E Aloha and Harvard Ave Saturday night.
Seattle Fire was called to Aloha and Harvard around 7:10 PM to the reported transformer fire.
Seattle City Light reported more than 700 customers without power including swaths of Broadway north or Roy.
Blustery winds and bursts of heavy rain were forecasted to continue through the night.
UPDATE 9:38 PM: City Light says another more than 6,000 customers are now without power in the Capitol Hill core. Continue reading
Here are the top stories from this week in CHS history:
With reporting by Hannah Saunders
The Capitol Hill “Stay Out of Drug Area” leads the city in banishment orders. The challenger to Ann Davison in the race for the Seattle City Attorney’s office says she will not enforce it.
“This was a failed policy that my opponent championed back, despite experts opposing it,” Erika Evans tells CHS. “Banishing people does not work. Prosecuting someone’s presence is not effective.”
Evans says the policies are racist and inequitably applied. They are also having no impact on reducing the public drug use and street disorder they were intended to address. Continue reading
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Image: Dorothy Edwards)
One recent Sunday evening, writer and queer activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore was walking from her home near the Capitol Hill branch of Seattle Public Library and toward Volunteer Park when she spotted one of the neighborhood’s ubiquitous feral rabbits.
“Look at that cute rabbit,” she said, delighted by the small creature as it scurried along the sidewalk toward the protection of a row of hedges. “The rabbits are the best thing that’s happened to us in the last five years. They came right with the pandemic, too. I mean, we’ve always had rabbits, but you might have seen one a week, if you were lucky. Now, you might see ten a night.”
Neighborhood walks are essential to Sycamore’s creativity. This was especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic, a productive period when she wrote two books that proved popular among readers and critics. So, when the opportunity arose to interview Sycamore for CHS, it made sense to do so while on one of her regular neighborhood walks. Continue reading
