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It was a busy morning in West Seattle and White Center for Attorney Tricia Lapitan Tuesday, Nov. 24. She woke Rafael at 7:15 am. Ten minutes later she got Rich out of his deep slumber. Another 15 minutes passed, and she woke up 13 young people…MORE

Tuesday’s swearing-in of County Executive Dow Constantine means there is now a vacancy in Council District 8. The Metropolitan King County Council received 11 applications from individuals who are seeking to replace Constantine on the County…MORE

King County Metro Transit will operate with a Sunday schedule on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26, and will have a reduced weekday schedule on Friday, Nov. 27. Metro reminds bus riders that it will be operating on a reduced weekday schedule on…MORE

The Ballard NW Senior Center needs the help of neighborhood theater-lovers.

The Dec. 1 showing of Taproot Theatre's "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play," was meant to be a fundraiser for the senior center. But, after an Oct. 23 arson…MORE

Gov. Chris Gregoire and the state Department of Ecology approved clean water projects in Ballard, as well as Spokane and Olympia, worth a total of $5.6 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding Nov. 24.

Project proponents…MORE

The Seattle Department of Transportation will nearly double the number of cameras providing real-time information to the city and the public by adding 57 traffic cameras this year.

“Crews are installing traffic cameras in Ballard, City…MORE

On November 18, at approximately 3:40 p.m., the listed suspect carried out a bank robbery at the Key Bank, located at 1918 SW Campus Drive, in the City of Federal Way.

The suspect demanded "all the 100's" from the teller and received…MORE

Construction of the six-story, retail and residential Avalon Ballard development on the site of the former Sunset Bowl is free to get underway after it passed its State Environmental Policy Act review Nov. 23.

The Seattle Department of…MORE

Aviation High School kicked off a major capital campaign at an event last week at the home of James and Sherry Raisbeck.

The Raisbecks and their foundation have pledged $4 million toward the effort to construct a facility for the school at…MORE

By next September, all parents and guardians in the Highline School District should be able to log on to their computers and check their child's grades, attendance and academic progress, district technology director Mark Finstrom reported to…MORE