"Nora [Ephron] was really insistent on basing the movie in Seattle—and not for any reasons she could defend," production designer Jeffrey Townsend says. Rom-com legends Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks star as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Because you’re taxed only on the slip—the place on the dock where your new water-bound palace resides—it promises to save you ...

Some people who live in houseboats along Lake Union are up in arms over proposed new regulations the city is floating that could force them to pull up anchor. There are about 500 floating homes like ...

or more than 100 years, floating homes along the shores of Seattle lakes have attracted people who couldn’t afford to live ashore, including low-wage workers, bohemians, radicals, hippies, and ...

Seattle is being forced to review its shoreline planning policies, and for a time it looked like the houseboats might have to go. But now comes word that the unique lifestyle will go on. It's a huge ...

WHAT: A one-hour tour of Seattle's houseboat scene. WHERE: Lake Union, near the University of Washington and slightly north of Pike Place Market. WHY: So you can see where Tom Hanks was "Sleepless." ...

A half century ago Seattle had more than 2,000 houseboats. Today only about 500 remain. Over the decades the houseboat community has struggled to stay afloat as a result of policy changes, higher ...

SEATTLE — Seattle has approved a new shoreline plan that won’t allow new houseboats to take up residence. KIRO Radio reported Seattle’s existing houseboats — immortalized in the movie “Sleepless in ...

They say there are no stupid questions, so I threw out the question that everyone was thinking but no one was asking: How fast can Seattle’s famous domesticated vessels move? OK, so some queries ...