Both sides of the Boeing strike have announced they have reached a tentative deal, which, if ratified, will end the 52-day strike. We don't have specifics on the deal, but the term of the deal is 4 years rather than the previously discussed 3-year contract. Promisingly, the proposed agreement was unanimously endorsed by the machinist union's negotiating committee. The proposed deal will be presented to union members for a ratification vote later this week. more ›

According to the P-I, traffic is currently blocked off on Third between Cherry and Spring as police search for the man who robbed a bank near the Columbia Tower an hour ago. They're looking for a white man in his 30s (read: half of downtown's daytime population), but Seattlest wishes them luck! We'll keep you posted, and let us know if you hear anything more or what you're seeing if you work near the area. more ›

Yesterday, one of the largest mainline Protestant Christian denominations--the Presbyterian Church (USA)--voted at their General Assembly to end the ban on ordination of gays and lesbians. The vote was 54% to 46%, an impressive margin for a denomination that has been roiled by bitter conflict over this issue for a solid thirty years. Technically worded, the vote dropped the rule that "fidelity within the covenant of marriage between and a man and a woman, or chastity in singleness" was an absolute requirement for ordination. It will take another year for the nation's 173 presbyteries, or geographically grouped churches who have a shared governing body, to vote individually to approve a change to the PC(USA)'s constitution. But as of right now, a church--yes, even a church in the moderately conservative Presbytery of Seattle--may on a case by case basis overrule the ban and ordain gays and lesbians. This is huge news! more ›

Ooooh—the Seattle P-I has launched their new crime blog, Seattle 911. It's a resting place for the flotsam and jetsam of the city's police and fire departments, where morbidly fascinated readers can take in side stories, breaking crime news, and details from daily reports. more ›

While trolling around some of Seattle's great local blogs for breaking news, we saw this photo that broke our heart: more ›

Also lapsing into first person, since that's what my predecessor did. more ›

The Seattle Times is reporting, way at the top in an unlikable breaking news sentence (read: cub reporter with a police scanner), that there has been an accident involving the Mercer Streetcar. According to the bolded sentence paragraph, an SUV ran an intersection and collided with an empty streetcar at the corner of Mercer and Terry. more ›

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All across the Ist-A-Verse (or at least the American parts thereof), writers and editors are in the midst of enjoying their three-day weekend. But after the week we've all had, we feel like the break is not only needed, but deserved. Just look at everything we've been doing! more ›

Our Venezuelan baseball correspondent, Pauls Toutonghi, has breaking news that will be made official by the Mariners on Sunday. more ›

Cities in other states. Why, during 24 tonight, did Fox 13 news use their "Coming up" commercial break to tell us they have Breaking News about a bunch of people who got shot in a mall in Salt Lake City? (Granted, we're from there, so we care but we don't understand why this is making the Seattle news.) And why are they reporting on their site about a murder-suicide in Philadelphia? more ›

We had thought our 15th Avenue breaking news this morning would be pointing out that Coastal Kitchen is still closed from last night's flooding. But that was before we got to 14th Avenue East and East Thomas, and noticed something ... different. Luckily we had our camera phone with us. more ›

Any day now Seattle will catch a break. I mean we are owed one. more ›

-Did you know that the Thunderbirds are still playing and they're facing a Game 7? Are you at all aware of the Thunderbirds in the first place? more ›

Comic book fans from around the world woke up today to breaking news of an imminent re-match between award-winning Canadian cartoonist Seth (aka Gregory Gallant) and local comic book publisher and Comics Journal executive editor Gary Groth. Their previous battle from the late '90s left many spectators wondering if another round of their incendiary exchanges would incite Groth's well-documented flair for explosives and firearms, provoking Mr. '30s Fetish to respond in kind. more ›

The Seattle P-I wants to have it both ways. First there's this scooter-booster wind-in-your-hair, pocket-change-for-gas story, then Daddy Buzzkill appears with the a second story's breaking news that you're 26 times more likely to die riding a motorcycle than in a passenger car. Also, if you buy liability insurance, which you're not required to do, it could cost you money. $150 - $300 a year! Uh...so? more ›

We posted recently about the upheaval at ConWorks. Today the Stranger website carries the breaking news that on Tuesday the ConWorks board fired executive director Matthew Richter, who, in recent weeks, had fired or inspired the resignation of three staffers. more ›