All southbound lanes of Interstate 5 through downtown Seattle were closed earlier this afternoon while the State Patrol investigated an accident involving a tractor-trailer and several other vehicles at 1:54 p.m near the Mercer Street exit. more ›

WOMEN & MONEY: Personal finance expert and author, Suze Orman talks about the complicated and dysfunctional relationship that women have with money in her book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny. more ›

Now's the time for the big salmon shows where they navigate through our local fresh waters to their birthplace where they'll lay a few million eggs and die. We hear it's really cool how they swim upstream and jump up waterfalls and get eaten by bears and orcas and McCormick and Schmick's diners. Ah, the wonders of nature. more ›

We read in the P-I today that the Washington Department of Licensing has rejected a complaint about the alleged offensiveness of a "JOHN316" license plate. more ›

The boys putting together the new WaMu tower across from Benaroya Hall had some trouble yesterday when a beam fell and injured three. The details are slow in coming, but somehow a beam that was designated as part of the flooring escaped the grasp of a crain that was holding it in place. One of the injured men is in critical condition at Harborview. The Washington Department of Labor and Industries is, of course, hastily dispatched investigators to the site. more ›

Seattleites looking forward to one of the region's great eats might be disappointed this spring as razor clam season on the peninsula is in jeopardy. The Oregon coast has already waved the white flag in the northern, central and southern regions due to high levels of domoic acid found in the shellfish there. more ›

If you've ever overheard your officemate on the phone saying, "Well, honey, it's black and red at the bridge but then it goes down to yellow," you know that a) they're on the DOT website, b) you're glad you don't live or work across the lake, and c) "honey" is screwed. (The image here shows 520 with "black" conditions on the left and "green" on the right.) more ›