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Life & Style Photos: Seattle Humane Society's Tuxes and Tails Gala (Photo Gallery)

By Joshua Lewis Published: May 14, 2012 at 2:57 PM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2012 at 8:15 AM PDT

Life & Style Seattle Color Run 2012 (Photo Gallery)

By Joshua Lewis Published: May 14, 2012 at 11:48 AM PDT

Life & Style Seattle's Space Race Final Challenge (Photo Gallery)

By Joshua Lewis Published: May 9, 2012 at 1:39 PM PDT

Life & Style Q & A with Brian Barrett of Syas (Audio)

By Jill Russell Published: May 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM PDT

After six years, Brian Barrett’s dream of being a rock star has come true. The SoCal-expat provides haunting vocals and impressive guitar skills to local indie rock band, Syas. This month, the band just released its freshman album, Stained Glass.

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Life & Style Garage Sales: Your Clutter is Someone Else's Treasure

By Tina Gleisner, Home Improvement Published: May 1, 2012 at 10:04 AM PDT Last Updated: May 8, 2012 at 1:18 PM PDT

Spring is popular for garage sales. We get to clean out what’s cluttering our homes – the garage, attic, basement and oops, don’t forget the dining room table. Garage sales offer the perfect opportunity to reward your de-cluttering efforts with a night on the town, a new outfit or maybe you want to add a little extra to this year’s vacation budget.

Life & Style You wanna live in a castle? Don't worry, it's in Idaho (Photo Gallery)

By KBOI Web Staff Published: Apr 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM PDT

Life & Style Seattle gardening events this spring

By Jill Russell Published: Apr 23, 2012 at 10:48 AM PDT

With Spring underway, the grass turning greener and the plants blooming, many of us are heading outdoors with our gloves and radio to plant flowers and tend to our gardens.

Life & Style It's Time To Buy Your Seeds!

By Dianne Venetta, Gardening Guru Tier 1 Published: Apr 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM PDT

It's time to buy your seeds! If you haven't been seed saving, that is.

Life & Style Seattle Remodeling Expo this weekend

By KOMO staff Published: Mar 20, 2012 at 10:23 AM PDT

Spring is here and that means it’s time to get started on all those remodeling projects put on hold during winter. The Seattle Remodeling Expo can help you get started.

Kicking off this weekend (March 23-25) at the Washington State Convention Center, the expo brings together homeowners and many of the most knowledgeable and experienced remodeling and building experts.

Every aspect of the home will be explored, from the smallest design detail to the largest house addition. Professionals will be on hand to share their valuable knowledge to bring your ideas to life or inspire you with new ones.

See the latest innovations and design trends. Experts will be showcasing everything for the home including, but not limited to the latest in cabinetry and countertops, flooring, sunrooms and additions, basement finishing, waterproofing, smart home automation, energy efficient windows and exterior products.

This all-encompassing event will surely provide the ideas and inspiration to get your home improvement plans off the ground.

Life & Style Stretch your food budget - join a community garden

By KOMO staff Published: Apr 2, 2012 at 10:32 AM PDT

Save money on fresh produce, provide a bounty of healthy food for the dinner table and get in some gentle exercise by growing your own vegetables in one of King County Parks’ community garden plots.

King County Parks currently has community garden plots available for rent at North Green River Park near Kent. Each plot measures 10 feet wide by 40 feet long, and costs just $50 to rent per season. Plots are renewable from year to year.

The available garden plots are located at a bend in the Green River near Central Avenue South and South 259th Street near Kent and are easily accessible from State Route 167. The land features enough sunny acreage for more than 100 garden plots where fresh vegetables and flowers can grow for months on end.

The North Green River Park site is one of three community gardens in King County Parks. Community gardens are also rented at Marymoor Park near Redmond and White Center Heights Park; those locations are fully rented for 2012.

Applications are now being accepted for garden plots at North Green River Park. Act fast because plots are going fast. Interested gardeners should call the King County Parks offices to request an application form and a chart that shows the available plots from which to choose.

More information is available by contacting King County Parks at 206-205-3661.

Life & Style Pike Place gives free flowers for spring

By Jill Russell Published: Mar 20, 2012 at 8:55 AM PDT

Celebrate the first day of spring with a free daffodil.

Now in its fifteenth year, the annual Pike Place Market daffodil giveaway has become a Seattle springtime tradition.

Rain or shine, Pike Place Market community members will hand out 12,000 daffodils to shoppers, workers and residents during lunch time today - the official first day of spring. Snag a bright daffodil, grown by Market farmers, from 11:30 a.m.- 1 p.m.

These are among the downtown locations where you can receive a daffodil:

• 4th Ave./Pine St. – near Starbucks and Westlake Park.
• 6th Ave./ Pine St. – Pacific Place
• 3rd/Union – Post Office/Benaroya Hall
• 4th Ave./Cherry St. – City Hall
• 4th Ave./Madison St. – downtown library
• 3rd/ Marion – Wells Fargo Center
• 5th/Olive – Westlake Tower/Medical Dental Building
• 5th/Pike – City Centre

Local & Regional Eco-friendly Ballard home is earning money for its owners (Video)

By Tricia Manning Smith Published: Mar 8, 2012 at 12:24 PM PDT

A Ballard couple's frugal approach to home building is paying off, and they're now the proud owners of the city's first home that actually produces more energy than it uses.

Life & Style Flex your green thumb at sustainability expo

By Jill Russell Published: Feb 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM PDT

South Sound Sustainability Expo in Tacoma this Saturday.

Life & Style 'This house fits us like tailored clothing' (Video)

By Kerry Tomlinson, KATU Problem Solver Published: Feb 23, 2012 at 3:01 PM PDT

A Portland couple’s 128 square foot home could probably fit into your bedroom with room to spare.

Life & Style Mushroom project teaches warm, sticky lesson in climate change (Photo Gallery)

By Jill Russell Published: Feb 22, 2012 at 3:58 PM PDT

What happens when a rag tag group of interdisciplinary professionals gets their hands on a grant aimed at conservation and sustainability?

Life & Style Craziest Tax Deductions

By Mary Schwager, Consumer Watchdog Published: Jan 6, 2012 at 1:00 AM PDT

Some call it “Creative Accounting 101”. Others call it an “audit magnet”. Either way, we’re talking about tax deductions. What’s legit? And what’s just over the line? The Massachusetts Society of CPA’s rounded up accountants who dished the dirt about what they’ve seen their clients try to pull off. Let's call it the craziest of the crazies.

Life & Style Tax Time: What to Shred, What to Keep

By Lisa Zaslow, Organizational Guru Published: Jan 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM PDT

Life & Style Cleaners to lotions, going green starts in your garden

By Emily Anderson, Galtime.com eco-expert Published: Jan 16, 2012 at 2:30 PM PDT Last Updated: Feb 14, 2012 at 11:37 AM PDT

Your garden is more than just a pretty space, it’s a treasure trove of organic solutions for you and your home. Concocting your own natural herbal remedies doesn’t require an advanced degree in Chemistry, anyone can do it.

Life & Style Compost holiday greens

By Jill Russell Published: Jan 5, 2012 at 11:12 AM PDT

Christmas is over... now, what to do with that Christmas tree? Seattle residents can compost trees and greens free of charge until Jan. 9.

Life & Style Safer stems

By Jill Russell Published: Jan 4, 2012 at 2:00 PM PDT

Every year, Americans spend nearly $20 billion on fresh flowers, and with Valentines Day upon us that number is sure to skyrocket.

Life & Style Composting 101: Five tips to get started

By Wells Rawls, Landscape Designer Published: Dec 27, 2011 at 12:47 PM PDT

Five tips to speed up your compost pile, you can get a head start and begin harvesting the rich, dark soils from what begins as old leftover food and yard waste.

Life & Style Deck the halls with ... tomatoes?

By Associated Press Published: Dec 9, 2011 at 2:49 PM PDT Last Updated: Jan 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM PDT

Move over mistletoe: New Hampshire greenhouse experiments with tomato plants as holiday decor

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Local & Regional (Updated) Teen girl killed, young man wounded in Shoreline shooting (Photo Gallery) (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: May 16, 2012 at 7:00 AM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 12:44 PM PDT

A 17-year-old girl was fatally shot and an 18-year-old man was critically wounded when someone opened fire on their car early Wednesday.

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By Josh Lewis Published: May 15, 2012 at 1:40 PM PDT

Local & Regional Photos: Seattle Color Run 2012 (Photo Gallery)

By Joshua Lewis Published: May 14, 2012 at 9:20 AM PDT Last Updated: May 14, 2012 at 3:43 PM PDT

Local & Regional Dream prom dress turns into nightmare for Everett teen (Video)

By Jamie Lynn Published: May 15, 2012 at 11:21 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 7:11 AM PDT

It's prom season and girls all over the country are looking for the perfect dress at the perfect price, but an Everett girl learned that hard way that sometimes the best price isn't the best deal.

Local & Regional (Updated) Jury convicts Steve Powell of voyeurism charges (Photo Gallery)

By MIKE BAKER Associated Press Published: May 16, 2012 at 11:41 AM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 1:17 PM PDT

A jury has convicted Steve Powell of voyeurism charges that stemmed from an investigation into the 2009 disappearance of his daughter-in-law Susan Powell, a mother of two from Utah who has never been found.

Local & Regional Search on for 16-year-old boy in Chehalis River

By KOMO Staff Published: May 15, 2012 at 6:09 PM PDT Last Updated: May 16, 2012 at 7:15 AM PDT

Rescue and dive teams have searched unsuccessfully for a 16-year-old boy missing in the Chehalis River near Rochester, Wash.

Local & Regional Parents of girl shot at school: 'Where is the justice?' (Video)

By KOMO Staff Published: May 15, 2012 at 10:43 AM PDT Last Updated: May 15, 2012 at 5:42 PM PDT

The mother of a 9-year-old boy who accidentally shot a classmate at a Bremerton school struck a plea deal with prosecutors Tuesday, much to the disappointment of the victim's parents.

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By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Business Writer Published: May 16, 2012 at 10:14 AM PDT

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