GOODBYE, 2025: This year’s most-commented WSB stories

Every year, this is our only “year in review” story – the 10 WSB stories with the most comments during the year. And as we note each year, that doesn’t mean they were the most important, or most read, stories; the comment totals just happen to be a quantifiable component in our publishing system. With hours left to go in 2025, here are this year’s top 10:

#10 – WEST SEATTLE LIGHT RAIL OPPONENTS NOT GIVING UP
January 7, 2025 – 124 comments

#9 – POLICE OFFICER SHOOTS, KILLS MAN OUTSIDE SOUTHWEST PRECINCT
March 19, 2025 – 132 comments

#8 – KATIE WILSON HOLDS LEAD IN MAYOR’S RACE, ONE WEEK AFTER VOTING ENDED
November 11, 2025 – 133 comments

#7 – 100+ SHOTS FIRED IN NORTH DELRIDGE
March 30, 2025 – 134 comments

#6 – SCUFFLE OVER SIGN IN THE JUNCTION
October 13, 2025 – 135 comments

#5. – 2+-HOUR CENTURYLINK OUTAGE IN WEST SEATTLE AND BEYOND
June 19, 2025 – 142 comments

#4 – LIGHT-RAIL OPPONENTS’ ‘RETHINK THE LINK’ FORUM
January 25, 2025 – 154 comments

#3 – $2 MILLION SMASH-AND-GRAB ROBBERY IN 90 SECONDS AT MENASHE JEWELERS
August 17, 2025 – 170 comments

#2 – BEL GATTO CLOSES AFTER LESS THAN A YEAR
January 6, 2025 – 180 comments

#1 – SDOT GOING AHEAD WITH REMOVAL OF DOWNHILL DRIVING LANE ON HIGHLAND PARK WAY HILL
March 5, 2025 – 183 comments

PREVIOUS YEARS: Here are our previous most-commented-stories lists, going back to 2011:
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2012
2011

Happy Days December 31, 2025 (9:06 pm)

A lot of anger and sadness in the blog above. Maybe people can take a minute to help the people around them this year. Try to focus on the positives of life, instead of the negatives. Spend time with your friends and family. Help the people in need. We’re going to get through this West Seattle. Happy New year.

GH December 31, 2025 (9:16 pm)

Wow we love arguing in the comments.

Seth December 31, 2025 (9:20 pm)

I really wish we didn’t give as much coverage to the rethink the link people. Imagine a world where we didn’t deal with those people and instead just built the project. Probably would have saved 2 to 3 billion honestly.

pelicans January 1, 2026 (12:49 am)

So Seth, in your imagined perfect world valid dissenting opinions from your fellow community members, “those people,” would not be given media coverage? In other words, only your opinions matter?
Maybe you should take that up with the editor/publisher of the WSB and see how that works out for ya.
Sheesh!
- k January 1, 2026 (7:47 am)
  
  They spread misinformation, constantly. No, I don’t think flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, or the rethink the link/gondola people deserve the same media coverage as people who know what they are talking about and are willing to deal in facts. The WSB coverage is helpful in that it helps taxpayers see just how committed some people are to sucking up Sound Transit’s time and money in hopes people will turn on a project they don’t like. But otherwise it’s just giving extra air time to a small but very vocal group of people determined to overturn the will of the voters. No one needs that.