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The Seattle Center will go dark Thursday night, according to a news release from Seattle City Light. A planned outage will be in effect from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. Friday for the second of three phases to replace the Seattle Center's aging electric system, Seattle City Light announced.

Justin Forsett sat at his locker preparing for practice when Deion Branch walked up to deliver his jersey for the day: A Seattle Seahawks logo "onesie."

The UW Husky Helmet will be the first vehicle to travel on the reopened Northeast 45th Street Viaduct at 11 a.m. Friday, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation.

An independent panel has given generally good marks to Washington state's ferry system, but also made 36 recommendations on how it could be better.

An independent panel gave generally good marks to Washington state's ferry system, but also suggested recommendations ranging from how to save money to how to unload bicycles from boats, according to the study released Thursday.

The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it.

For a team that endured so much losing its first season, maybe it's only appropriate that a defeat was the turning point for the Atlanta Dream on the way to the WNBA Finals.

Prison officials made final preparations Thursday as the clock ticked toward Washington's first execution in nine years.

Justin Forsett sat at his locker preparing for practice when Deion Branch walked up to deliver his jersey for the day: A Seattle Seahawks logo "onesie."

The father of a U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan says he tried nearly a half dozen times to pass an urgent message from his son to the Army: Troops in his unit had murdered an Afghan civilian, planned more killings and threatened him to keep quiet about it.

Cal Coburn Brown has spent most of the day in his usual cell at the Washington State Penitentiary, awaiting execution early Friday morning.

Justin Forsett sat at his locker preparing for practice when Deion Branch walked up to deliver his jersey for the day: A Seattle Seahawks logo "onesie."

A burglary suspect who was arrested and put in the back of a Seattle police patrol car managed to escape Thursday morning when he slid through the partition into the front seat and drove off.

For years, Kathleen Terrio has greeted and fed the feral rabbits that populate the University of Victoria, where she works as an English teacher.

After a four-week delay, Sound Transit board members voted Thursday to spend $4.6 million in design money in hopes of getting the South 200th Street park-and-ride station done by 2015.

A judge in Wyoming has mostly upheld a federal decision to designate land in six states as critical habitat for the threatened Canada lynx.

Twenty-seven school districts in Washington are getting a total of $27.8 million for construction projects that increase energy savings.

Seattle police officials struck a conciliatory tone Wednesday night when about 100 members of the region's Native American community gathered at the Daybreak Star Cultural Center in Seattle's Discovery Park to press them with questions about the killing of John T. Williams. Williams, a 50-year-old First Nations carver, was fatally shot by a police officer last week after he failed to comply with an order to drop his carving knife.

Jefferson County leads the state in the number of wind or other renewable projects per resident.

Prison Officials made final preparations Thursday as the clock ticked toward Washington's first execution in nine years.