Soon, SPD officers may not ride horses, because money. The Seattle City Council is even turning down money from the Seattle Police Foundation to preserve the program. But is this maybe for the best? You tell us! more ›

If your pony is feeling perky, go ahead and let it horse around--the horse herpes outbreak has been contained. more ›

No bad horse jokes here. An outbreak of deadly equine herpes is sickening ponies across the Pacific Northwest, and threatening to expose hundreds more. more ›

Horses are back in the news today. Federal officials again ruled out slaughtering horses for food even though there are far too many horses on public lands in the west. Remember this post, two months ago? "They Eat Horses, Don't They?" more ›

• Another creepy Washington horse story, of course, of course. A 26-year-old Kennewick man was arrested Friday, caught without his pants and chasing the neighbor's very scared horsey. Ummm...dude, if you don't recall, horse and human sexual relationships generally don't have a happy pleasant ending.
• The Puget Sound Business Journal spells it out in big numbers that a whopping 68,800 jobs have been lost over the past year in Seattle alone.

Remember Kristy Lee Cook—the Seattle-born Oregonian who rocketed to "15 Minutes of Shame" during last winter's American Idol? Well, she has a record coming out on Sept. 16. And we give you the album cover: more ›

FREE BUSH: Get your mind out of the gutter. We're talking about Gavin Rossdale. He's in town today to put on a free show at everyone's favorite new venue Showbox SODO. Get there early, because we imagine there'll be a line for blocks to get into this thing. We hope he does some solo acoustic versions of all the Bush classics. more ›

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