Stories By Natalie Guevara

  • Happy winter solstice: Longer days ahead in Seattle Tuesday marks 2021's winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. 
  • 13 mistakes people make when they first move to Seattle Just moved to Seattle? Here are some things to avoid to out yourself as a transplant.
  • 42 years ago: Mount St. Helens woke up and blew her top On March 21, 1980, tucked into the eighth page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was a brief, three-paragraph report about an earthquake that rippled through the Mount St. Helens area.
  • Today in history: Adult show shut down at Seattle World's Fair The Monorail and Space Needle were not the only big attractions during Seattle's 1962 World’s Fair -- how about nudity and dancing women along Century 21’s Show Street?
  • Will Sunday be the last time we 'spring forward'? Probably not. Even though the state legislature passed a bill earlier this year that would allow Washington to remain permanently on daylight saving time, residents should still wind their clocks back one hour early Sunday morning. The problem is, staying...
  • The early years of Seattle's first newspaper The Denny Party landed in Seattle just 12 years before the publication that would later become the Seattle Post-Intelligencer published its first edition. That paper was the Seattle Gazette, which printed its first edition in 1863 -- Seattle's...
  • These are the mistakes people make when they first move to Seattle Whatever your reason for moving to the Emerald City, there are a few things Seattle transplants should know.
  • COVID-19: How to stay social while social distancing Social distancing is likely to feel isolating for those forced out of their workplaces and out of school. So what can you do to stay social during social distancing?
  • 5 COVID-19 cases confirmed at Boeing Everett Boeing's Everett plant has confirmed five cases of COVID-19. An additional two workers there were tested, but tests came back negative.
  • Here's how every county in Washington voted in the primary The deadline to vote has passed, and results are beginning to drop across Washington state. But how did your neighbors vote?
  • Update: Woodland Park Zoo releases new photos of baby gorilla Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo welcomed a bouncing baby boy gorilla on Wednesday, March 4 at 2:48 a.m.
  • Northshore schools to close for up to 2 weeks for COVID-19 The Northshore School District closed Thursday for up to two weeks as novel coronavirus continues to spread in Western Washington.
  • King County to buy Kent Econo Lodge to use as quarantine site King County plans to use a motel in Kent as a quarantine facility for those infected with novel coronavirus.
  • Report: Don't run late when flying out of Sea-Tac Airport When flying through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, save yourself a headache and arrive early, and follow these other useful tips and tricks.
  • 19 years ago: Seattle rocked by 6.8 Nisqually quake Nineteen years ago, Western Washington was rocked. A magnitude 6.8 quake shook the Nisqually Delta, to the northwest of Olympia, for 40 seconds. In less than a minute, an estimated 200 people were injured. The quake was also cited as the cause...
  • Call me! Blondie to perform during ZooTunes on Aug. 23 It's not yet spring, but midday sunshine and recent dry weather in Seattle has us hanging on the telephone thinking of summer. Same with the folks at Woodland Park Zoo , apparently, who made their first ZooTunes lineup announcement this week.
  • Report: 13% of employed Seattleites make $100,000 or more In the Seattle metro area, where the average wage was over $50,000 -- and 13.1% of employed people make over $100,000. That's the fifth-highest population of six-figure salary earners among the country's large cities, according to a new study by...
  • Macklemore named creative director of cold brew for Dutch Bros Macklemore has been named a creative director of cold brew for Oregon-based Dutch Bros Coffee.
  • The cars it pays to buy new or lightly used in Seattle It's well-known that when buying a car, a person is likely to save money by buying used. In Seattle, it pays to buy a GMC Sierra 1500, where the price difference from a new to one-year-old car is -41.5%.
  • Sunny weather to continue through the end of the week in Seattle Sunshine lovers, prepare for a few more days of rays in Seattle .