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In the month since Mayor Greg Nickels announced changes to the city’s low-income utility rate assistance program, nearly 3,500 people have applied. New income eligibility requirements allow more people to participate in the program that cuts…MORE

The Senior Center of West Seattle was burglarized at 10:45 p.m. Sunday following an accordion club that rented out the space. An investigation is ongoing.

The center, located at 4217 S.W. Oregon St., had a heavy 1950's-era safe in a…MORE

Local nursing home Ballard Care and Rehabilitation will hold a press conference tomorrow, April 14 at 10 a.m., about proposed budget cuts in Olympia, that, if enacted, they say will create a crisis for thousands of nursing home patients across…MORE

The field for prospective appointment as King County Executive was narrowed to four as members of the Metropolitan King County Council April 13 submitted four names for evaluation by a Blue-Ribbon Committee.

“We’ve generated a strong field…MORE

This July 4, Alki Beach will lose one of it's most popular fireworks show. After 44 years, Ivar’s Seafood Restaurants has opted to discontinue its “4th of Jul-Ivar’s” community fireworks show so that it might donate more to Northwest Harvest,…MORE

Hundreds of volunteers will survey unsheltered homeless people in Seattle tonight, April 13, to better understand the needs of people who are homeless and the barriers they face to finding permanent housing.

The Homeless Needs Assessment…MORE

Mayor Greg Nickels announced the 21 outstanding middle school students who have earned this year’s Scholar Award for service to their schools and their communities, eight of which attend schools in West Seattle.

This year marks the 10th…MORE

Five seventh-grade girls were accepted into Splash this summer, a prestigious science program at Seattle University.

Tasha Addington-Ferris, Megan Antalan, Riley Bunch, Michelle Raney and Alex Valenti, will spend July 24 through August 18…MORE

The White Center Food Bank has announced that the raised beds in the community garden at White Center Heights Park are available by application to community members.

The community garden was part of the Starbucks Ultimate Park Makeover in…MORE

The Washington State Department of Transportation recently installed a replica of a fence panel that its designing as a suicide-prevention barrier for the Aurora Bridge, and at today's Architectural Committee Meeting, the committee gave the state…MORE