More than one-fifth of all Seattle households and businesses have used www.seattle.gov/stopphonebooks, made a phone call, or mailed a postcard to opt out of telephone book deliveries since the service was started by the city, last May 5.  [More]

Explore ways to protect and sustain our most precious resource, water and watersheds, and reorient ourselves within our community ecosystems and local habitats at The Next Fifty Water & Habitat Weekend (May 5 and 6).  [More]

Join the Seattle City Council for one of three conversations in May about the City budget and community priorities. Participants will engage City Council members and neighbors in conversations centered on five thought-provoking questions about the future of our City. [More]

All three credit rating agencies – Standard & Poor’s, Fitch and Moody’s – have affirmed the city of Seattle’s existing Aaa/Aa1 bond ratings. In addition, Standard & Poor’s has revised its outlook for Seattle’s rating to “stable” from “negative.” [More]

Opening day will feature a cornucopia of spring greens, flowers, edible plant starts for your garden or patio, early vegetables, gourmet cheeses, fresh eggs, wild-caught salmon, pastured meats - and some delicious prepared foods. Over 40 local farmers and artisan food vendors will sell at the market throughout the season. The market is extended through winter holidays as well, enabling shoppers to buy local ingredients for seasonal celebrations up through December 23. [More]

Recent amendments to the American Fisheries Act and other federal, state and regional policies are providing new opportunities for Bering Sea commercial fishing vessel owners to rebuild or replace aging vessels. Actions taken or under consideration by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council should also facilitate replacement of vessels in the Amendment 80 and Freezer Longline fleets.  [More]

Kiplinger has named Seattle one of the 10 best cities of the decade. With Seattle being home to some of the most influential companies—Microsoft, Costco, Amazon, Starbucks— and our regions knack for turning the impossible into possible, the city is at the cutting edge of innovation.  [More]

Have you ever wanted to drive a golf ball on a downtown Seattle street toward Mount Rainier? For a day, you can! Intuit will be in town Tuesday, April 17 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., creating a driving range on 2nd Avenue to film a commercial for its GoPayment mobile credit card reader. [More]

They sport vintage bowling shoes and the latest tech gear, but they know all the best places to eat and drink. These are America’s hipsters and the best place to find them is in none other than Seattle. Travel and Leisure readers ranked 35 metropolitan areas on culturally relevant features like live music, coffee bars, and independent boutiques and found the Emerald City on top. To zero in on the biggest hipster crowds, they also factored in the results for the best microbrews in the most offbeat and tech-savvy locals. "These northwesterners prove that a key to hipsterness is being ahead of the curve: they won the survey for their smarts, their tech savvy, and their high-octane coffee." [More]

Mayor McGinn returns from a short trip to Chongqing and Beijing, where he led a delegation of over 50 business and community leaders from Seattle to meet with companies and school officials to discuss areas of mutual cooperation, and to honor the longstanding sister-city relationship between our two cities. [More]