Today from the seattlepi.com archive we share the story of the day the Monorail opened to the general public: March 24, 1962. The Monorail, a 1.2-mile track that goes from the Seattle Center to ...

Our reporters Josh Sandiford and Rachael Lewis have been out and about on the streets of Birmingham. On Wednesday, the police were called because so many people turned up to get rid of their ...

Birmingham’s bin-strike woes escalated this week when police were called to a mobile waste collection service that became swarmed by locals desperate to get rid of their rubbish. In Moseley, a ...

Strikes by refuse workers in Birmingham have led to scenes of chaos, with bins piling up on streets, reports of rats, and some residents saying their recycling hasn't been collected in a month ...

Two men have been spared jail after torching a car under the Gatwick Aiport monorail in an “appalling” incident. Edward Maunder, 37, and Michael Lyons, 28, have been handed down a two-year suspended ...

Residents who subscribed to Birmingham's garden waste collection will be refunded after the service failed to get under way, the council has announced. The seasonal service, which costs users £61 ...

Ready for a tough question, food lovers in Birmingham? Well, here goes: If you could only eat at one restaurant here for the rest of your life, which would it be? The metro area is filled with ...

The two monorail cars strapped to a bridge over the Mississippi River haven’t actually moved more than a few inches since 2018. And, due to cost, changing times and other factors, it’s unlikely ...

Rubbish bins are being left uncollected on the streets of Birmingham after hundreds of refuse collectors walked out indefinitely. Nearly 400 council bin workers in the UK's second-largest city ...

Hundreds of bin collectors are set to strike into summer as rats the “size of cats” dig through rubbish bags piling up outside Birmingham’s front doors. Nearly 400 Unite the Union workers ...

Refuse workers lined up in front of the Tyseley depot on Tuesday morning An indefinite all-out strike for bin workers in Birmingham is under way, as rubbish continues to pile up in the streets.

An all out bin strike is about to get under way in Birmingham. Not for the first time in our city's recent tumultuous history, the streets of Birmingham are filling up with unemptied bins as the ...