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Seattle Parks and Recreation Superintendent Tim Gallagher has made appointments to four key positions in the organization: recreation director, parks director (all maintenance activities), planning and development director, and deputy planning…MORE

The Washington Drug Card, which is free to all residents and provides savings of up to 75 percent on prescription drugs, can now be accessed by simply visiting any Safeway pharmacy location.

In the past residents were required to obtain…MORE

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Des Moines City Council members have deferred several improvements planned for major city streets to reduce a projected $1.675 million deficit in the capital budget this year.

Council members also directed…MORE

Seattle Public Utilities has reported that food scraps take up about one-third or 45,000 tons of residential trash each year and solving this problem has been made easier for single family homes by giving them the solution to create their own…MORE

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Interact with artists living in a storefront, watch trapeze dancers perform astoundng feats in a parking lot, hear musicians play original songs while an artist creates paintings of birds for purchase, and catch a…MORE

During the six months that Bruce Harrell has been a Seattle City Council member he has grown frustrated with the limited feedback he hears from the community.

While he found that the council often heard from certain activists, he said he…MORE

Construction crews working at night to repave Burien's First Avenue South as part of finishing the improvement project on that thoroughfare from Southwest 160th Street to Southwest 146 Street.

The recast Statue of Liberty, atop a new pedestal and surrounded by a plaza of inscribed bricks, will be rededicated during a daylong celebration Saturday.

The Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band will start the celebration at 11 a.m. Arts and crafts…MORE

The Port of Seattle Commission voted Aug. 26 to approve Resolution 3605 which makes sweeping changes to how the commission delegates its authority throughout the organization.

Seattle has begun to see a change in the type of people who are coming in for food bank services - people with their pressed slacks and white button down shirts are no longer a rare sight amongst the usual consumers.

As gas and food prices…MORE