Brendan Kiley

1 month ago | seattletimes.com | Brendan Kiley

Nighttime travelers on northbound Interstate 405 between Renton and Bellevue should expect detours through Thursday night due to a road-widening and express toll lane project. Between 11 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. from late Monday to early Friday, crews will fully shut down northbound I-405 from Southeast Eighth Street to Northeast Fourth Street in Bellevue. Lane reductions will start from Lake Washington Boulevard Southeast.

2 months ago | columbian.com | Brendan Kiley

News / Nation & World Demonstrations target Tesla showrooms in multiple states A physician at Seattle Children’s hospital. A janitor at Seattle Center. A retired elementary school teacher. A disabled military veteran. These people and about 80 others protested in front of a Tesla showroom in South Lake Union on Saturday afternoon, voicing opposition to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s newfound power as an unelected “special government employee” — as well as the Trump administration’s freezing of federal...

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Brendan Kiley

Editor’s note: Pacific NW magazine’s weekly Backstory provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writer’s process or an extra tidbit that accompanies our cover story.This week’s cover story explores Washington’s winds from many different perspectives. THIS WEEK’S MAGAZINE cover story is about wind: not the high drama, marquee winds (it’s not a storms-of-the-century story) but the everyday transit of air around us as it meets the fluctuations of pressure, temperature, terrain and time.

2 months ago | seattletimes.com | Brendan Kiley

BEFORE SMARTPHONES, before laptops, before weather.gov or wunderground.com, the American flag flying at the top of Two Union Square told Seattle which way the wind was blowing. A downtown tower that seems to sprout from Freeway Park, Two Union Square was completed in July 1989, and its first flag went up immediately — courtesy of Don Covey, the developer-CEO behind the project and a Marine Corps veteran who wanted to give the Seattle skyline a patriotic signifier.

Dec 22, 2024 | seattletimes.com | Brendan Kiley

THIS YEAR HAS BEEN a time of growth for the Connections Museum: that whirring, clacking temple of telecommunications, perfumed by copper wiring and delicate industrial oils, housed in a dystopian-looking concrete hulk. That hulk, in Georgetown, used to be a nerve center for AT&T/Bell.