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The Seattle Department of Transportation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are beginning the environmental review to address the Elliott Bay seawall. A comment period is underway, and a public meeting is being held: June 16, 2010 |Bell Harbor…MORE

The Seattle City Council today approved (7-0, Rasmussen and O'Brien disqualified) legislation to better protect renters from sub-standard rental housing conditions. The three pieces of legislation create a framework to improve sub-standard…MORE

All three candidates for Seattle’s police chief will appear before the City Council's Public Safety and Education Committee at City Hall 600 Fourth Avenue, Council Chambers, 2nd floor, Wednesday morning, June 2 at 9:30 am.

Sacramento…MORE

The closure of the Battery Street Tunnel announced for Saturday, June 5 has been canceled.

"We double checked and realized that this date would create too many traffic problems with the events scheduled for that day," said Mary Beth…MORE

Ballardites can call the meerkats cute, they can call them curious and soon, they can call them by the names that they have given them.

Woodland Park Zoo is inviting the community to pick their favorite names for the zoo’s new mob of eight…MORE

The southbound, curb lane of the Ballard Bridge will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 4.

The closure will allow Seattle Department of Transportation crews to complete a routine maintenance inspection of the bridge.

Friends of Ballard Corners Park is hosting a work party on June 5 at the new park at the corner of Northwest 63rd Street and 17th Avenue Northwest.

"Ballard Corners Park is looking great these days," said David Folweiler of Friends of…MORE

As the midday sun shone over Tukwila's Museum of Flight, "Aluminum Overcast" took to the skies once again. A restored B-17 bomber that narrowly missed action in World War II, the plane was in Tukwila last week as part of its "Salute to Veterans…MORE

SeaTac lawmakers acted quickly May 25 to lessen chances that a facility for drug dependent or mentally ill people will be located in the city.

The "crisis diversion facilities" would temporarily treat people who otherwise would be headed…MORE

A collective sigh of relief from Burien-area book lovers has mixed with the standard spring breezes of late as the news spreads that Burien Books will continue to operate under the ownership of Allison Lee-Moore.

Following the death of…MORE