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A half dozen people waved black and yellow signs reading "Rebuild Viaduct, No Tunnel" at the traffic on Fourth Avenue at City Hall Thursday afternoon.

Gene Hoglund, who represents Working Families for an Elevated Solution on the viaduct…MORE

The Sound Transit Board unanimously approved on July 25 placing a 15-year mass transit package on the November ballot.

The plan rapidly increases express bus and commuter rail service and creates a 53-mile regional light rail system.

A local woman's quest to save a house has been put on hold because available land is scarce in Seattle.

Margaret Todd wants to recycle the house previously owned by the 7th Elect Church of Israel, which sits on the land recently purchased…MORE

The Seattle City Council last week voted unanimously to place a six-year, $145 million Parks and Green Spaces Levy on November's ballot.

The Council voted in favor of a levy package that would fund acquiring parks and green belts;…MORE

With a grand reopening on July 25, Westfield Southcenter in Tukwila celebrated a $240 million expansion that makes it the largest indoor mall in Washington and Oregon.

Gov. Chris Gregoire and Tukwila Mayor Jim Haggerton were among the…MORE

"She was David in a Goliath story" is how Kathryn Fairchild described Elda Behm, a friend and a stand-in-grandmother to her, during a memorial service for Behm on July 19.

Behm, "Paradise Garden" creator, died July 13. Behm created the…MORE

Last year at Des Moines Beach Park, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed legislation creating the Puget Sound Partnership tasked with the job of cleaning up Puget Sound.

On July 24, Gregoire returned to the park, as part of a two-day, seven-stop…MORE

According Washington State University's Center for Real Estate Research, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment in King County is $900 a month.

The yearly salary for a first-year teacher in the Highline School District is $32,000.

Hidden in a small garage in an obscure and wooded corner of SeaTac are miniature cities and gardens inhabited by countless people, many smaller than your pinky finger.

These are the clay creations of 60-year-old animator, Bruce Bickford.…MORE

Burien City Council members voted July 21 to adjust the assessed added value of the only residential property within the First Avenue South renovation project.

The lawmakers voted 4-2 to reduce the assessed value of Harold and Sheila Dunn'…MORE