Last month we learned that the neighborhoods we live in might be making our kids fat. Now comes news that the design of our neighborhoods, and whether kids can walk from place to place or are forced to be driven by parents, can impact a child's ability to connect with people around them and their community

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An Olympia couple is suing Greyhound and their partner company Rimrock Stages after enduring a nightmarish cross-country bus ride.

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Yesterday Austin Porter and the attorneys representing him held a press conference in Seattle, announcing a lawsuit they'd filed earlier in the day in King County court seeking undisclosed damages resulting from Porter's 2011 run-in with a local Ride-the-Ducks vehicle. Porter's attorneys say the 28-year-old was literally run over by one of the World War II-era amphibious tourist traps last October, sitting on his 2010 Triumph Bonneville T100 motorcycle at a stop light on Seattle's Pike Street.

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John Brennan walked into Portland International Airport Tuesday evening with every intention of boarding his Alaska Airlines flight to San Jose. But when he got hassled at a TSA security checkpoint, something snapped -- or rather unsnapped. He stripped all the way down to his birthday suit because, as he puts it, "my civil liberties had already been violated."

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Move aside, Bill Gates, there's a new whiz kid in Seattle: 14-year-old programmer McKaulay Kolakowski spent over 200 hours building a video-game tribute to the Seattle Monorail, just in time for its 50th birthday, only a week away. Even though his game hasn't been released yet, Kolakowski already has several monorail fans, and has been invited to join the celebration.

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Car-loving developer Kemper Freeman would like nothing more than to stop light rail expansion in its tracks, but last week the tide may have turned for good for transit advocates as Freeman lost a key court battle to keep the East Link expansion from coming into his back yard over the I-90 bridge. He may still appeal, but you have to ask yourself: How many licks does it take for the hardest-core pro-car advocate to get the picture?

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Got a passport? Plenty of people wait until the last minute and are surprised when the application process sometimes takes as long as six weeks. Normally you'd have to wait to make an appointment first, but you're in luck, Seattle, because we've found a shortcut to get you that little blue ticket to paradise quickly and without an appointment.

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Jan, Teammate

At this point, Jan Steves, 55, is with her four-footed team mushing somewhere through the Alaska snowfields on a 1,000-mile journey between Anchorage and Nome, attempting to become, her brother says, the oldest woman from Washington state to ever finish the Iditarod dog-sled race. And here Rick Steves thought he was the one who always went the distance.

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A regular audit of the Port of Seattle expenses shows $13.6 million in taxpayer funds that should have gone to sound-proofing for Highline schools, continually buffeted by planes taking off and landing at Sea-Tac. Instead, the Port decided to help fix up and run a college prep school called Aviation High, basically a breeding ground for people destined to work for the Port in some degree. "The Port makes jobs, and we go to school so we can fill 'em up," says Quinn Schiller, a student at the school profiled in this video:

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The State Senate is considering a bill which would make abortion coverage mandatory for all insurance providers, with a caveat, and the new bill, H.B. 2330, would give Washington State first-in-the-nation status for requiring abortion coverage when universal healthcare kicks in two years from now. But about that caveat...

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