Happy Thanksgiving! Reported last night: a security guard intimidating a four-year-old, Snohomish County having all kinds of water problems, the outcome of Phoenix Jones's pepper-spray fiasco and a recovered purse. more ›

A high school stabbing and a downtown stabbing as Gregoire goes head-to-head with the unions, the City Council considers a program to help car campers, and a bike that looks like sperm delivers... sperm. more ›

Around 5:25 a.m., an earthquake with a 4.5 magnitude rattled the towns of Puget Sound--including Seattle. According to the UW-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, the quake was centered about 2 miles north of Indianola (in the Port Gamble area--here's a topographical map of that specific region), or about 14 miles northwest of Seattle. Locals reported feeling the quake in areas stretching from Puyallup to Snohomish, which is typical for such a shallow quake. There are no major damages reported at this time. We found an interesting graphic from the PNSN which shows all of the quakes in the last two weeks in the Pacific Northwest, and a reassuring statement from the West Coast And Alaska Tsunami Warning Center about this earthquake in particular: "The magnitude is such that a tsunami WILL NOT be generated." Great! Did you feel this one, readers? more ›

On the front page of the local news section of the P-I this morning is a feature on David Entrikin's 1,500 portraits of local homeless people. (You can read more about Entrikin's photo exhibit on "unsheltered" people here.) On the inside page is this story: Seattle-area foreclosures soar. This August, King and Snohomish counties had 1,185 foreclosure filings, or one out of every 906 households. According to the Greek chorus that is the SoundOff comments section, the lesson here is, "Live within your means." No one responded to the commenter who interjected that the three foreclosures he knew of were related to two divorces and a death. more ›

For years, we’ve heard that the best New York-style pizza in Seattle is actually in Snohomish. more ›