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On Feb. 2, 18 Ballard High Schools made public their intent to join Garfield High School on the boycott on MAP testing. Ballard High School has already finished administering the test, so the boycott won't take effect until May, but the teachers…MORE

While Garfield High School has taken the spotlight on the recent controversy over the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test, the subject has a history in Ballard.

On Saturday, Feb. 2, 18 Ballard High School teachers (so far) made public…MORE

The Fred Meyer store in Seattle’s Greenwood neighborhood, at 100 N.W. 85th St. reopened Friday after its expansion to a packed house, and what a house, with an additional 55,000-plus square feet to make it 190,000.

They hired an addition…MORE

For the second, and not the last, memorial for West Seattle's Jerry Ceis, family and friends gathered at the Alki Bathhouse on Saturday Feb. 2 to recall memories and celebrate the life of a man everyone agreed was a free spirit and someone who…MORE

(Editor's note: Andy Ryan with SPU provided further background on the South Transfer Station delay in the comment section below the story.)

The 14,000 sq. foot South Transfer Station being built at 130 S. Kenyon St. in South Park was…MORE

Surveillance cameras are popping up along Seattle’s waterfront, including on light poles along Harbor and Alki Avenues in West Seattle, as part of a $5 million federal homeland security grant to monitor for terrorist threats coming into the Port…MORE

Information from SDOT: The Seattle Department of Transportation is in Phase 1 of the project to rebuild much of Delridge Way SW between SW Orchard and SW Roxbury streets. To reduce impacts to the community intersection construction will be done…MORE

Information from Seattle Public Utilities:

The Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), seeks an artist or artist team to develop a permanent, site-integrated artwork for the North…MORE

Here's the agenda for the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council public safety forum set for Feb. 7.

Sgt. Henry McLauchlan of the King County Sheriff’s Department will discuss how graffiti and other types of vandalism impact our…MORE

By a vote of 4-3 on Jan. 31, the Seattle School Board approved the annual capacity management plan and updated student assignment transition plan in hopes of making room for an ever-growing student population.

In West Seattle, the…MORE