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People return to charred homes - Seattle Times

A bus carries residents of the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar, Calif., to see the wildfire's destruction Monday. LOS ANGELES — Stacks of charred bricks, blackened shells of cars and burned tree trunks were all that remained Monday in much of ...

An Inviting Tudor Opens Up For Magnolia Home Tour - Seattle Times

The tile and wrought-iron staircase sweeps visitors upstairs in grand fashion. The sculpture in the reception hall is called Angel. The Daubenspeck home is a classic 1929 Tudor Revival with its steep-pitched roof, cross gables, decorative half ...

An explorer's dream city rich in pickings - Independent

ISLAND CHARMS: The Queen Victoria Hotel on Vancouver Island is an ideal base before you set off whale-watching Having taken a spur of the moment decision to book two flights to Vancouver -- a place we knew absolutely nothing about -- we Googled the ...

November 2008 - ABC News Blogs

1. Who will play a bigger role in filling out President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet -- Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, or Doris Kearns Goodwin ? 2. Will the Republican Party have to blow itself up to put itself back together ? (Which of those directions ...

Take a trip back in time along the Columbia River - Seattle Times

If you go "Ocian in View" Symposium details The three-hour bus tours cost $30 per person (reserve in advance, these fill fast: 360-642-3446). Lectures are $10. All program events take place on the north side of the Columbia River in or near the town ...

How to find travel deals - Seattle Times

When is a travel "deal" really a deal? Here's some advice on how to navigate among the many promotional travel offers. The packaged hotel "experience" may or may not be a deal. At first glance, prices can be deceiving. Consider these two examples: A ...

A close view of the Viaduct, cracks and all - Seattle Post Intelligencer

Zipping along the Alaskan Way Viaduct at 50 miles per hour, it's easy to overlook the physical evidence that the aging double-decker roadway is deteriorating. Walking down the center of the northbound lanes, though, the signs are clear: cracked ...