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During one of the hardest budget sessions Des Moines has faced in recent years, the Des Moines Police Guild cried foul over the council's decision to cut five police officers from the budget next year.

The city says the money is not there…MORE

The lights will come on Sunday, Dec. 20 at 4 p.m. at Burien's Dottie Harper Park and will remain on Thursdays through Sundays from 4-9 p.m. until Feb. 15.

Burien Arts Associaition members are working to extend the lighting to a full-time…MORE

Just in time for holiday air travel, service from the SeaTac City Center/Sea-Tac International Airport light-rail station will begin Saturday, Dec. 19.

Opening ceremonies will start at 9 a.m. with a ribbon cutting featuring Sound Transit…MORE

The Burien Interim Art Space is no more as the largest sculpture. "The Passage" was trucked away on Thursday, Dec. 17.

Smaller sculptures were removed over the weekend.

The space behind the Burien Town Square was used as a year-long…MORE

The looming 2010 budget crisis and two pieces of marijuana legislation seemed to be the topics of the night for the three legislators and two dozen constituents at the 36th District open house Dec. 15.

One attendee said she hoped to hear…MORE

West Crown Hill, a small pocket neighborhood just off 15th Avenue Northwest, has many things: proximity to shops and bus stops, a sense of community and comparatively cheap housing.

But, there is one thing it doesn't have: sidewalks. And,…MORE

UPDATE: June 12, 2012

The West Seattle Herald is saddened to learn that longtime Kenney resident Leon Joslin passed away recently at age 100. The story below, and photo, from Dec. 15, 2009, profile the then 97 year-old.

Here is a…MORE

Seattle City Council today adopted two pieces of legislation that will work to improve the livability, sustainability, and affordability of Seattle neighborhoods. The first ordinance creates a pilot project to allow for entirely self-sustaining…MORE

Artists from Seattle Mural Art, an affiliate of Greenwood’s Bherd Studios, are creating an 89-foot by 8-foot mural to commemorate the businesses damaged and destroyed by the string of arsons this past summer and fall.

The mural will be…MORE

Renton attorney Bob Warden filed a preliminary injunction against Mayor Greg Nickels and the City of Seattle in United States District Court on Sunday Dec. 13 in his effort to overturn the ban against carrying guns on Seattle Park Department…MORE