News

The West Seattle Junction Association has been given a grant of $10,000 from the Office of Economic Development.

It was one of 18 grants to Neighborhood Business District Associations throughout Seattle to continue the city's investments…MORE

The Des Moines "Storefront Studio" Project, which is producing a series of "picture postcards" that depict a revitalized downtown and waterfront, concludes with a free open house on Friday, June 6.

These visual concepts will be on display…MORE

The city has unveiled the first of four plug-in hybrid electric vehicles it will test over the next year.

Specifically, the project will test technology used to convert four existing Priuses in the city's fleet to 100-miles-per-gallon…MORE

With commencement ceremonies for Highline high schools looming on June 16 and 17, a number of twelfth-graders and their parents are breathing a sigh of relief.

The Class of 2008 is the first group of seniors in the state required to pass…MORE

Last Oct. 10 Maria Cantwell headlined the grand opening of Propel Biofuels' fuel station at Bernie's Automotive in Ballard, its first of 15 planned. The senator praised the $3.59 per gallon biodiesel for its renewability, minimal discharge of CO2…MORE

The Hi-Liners non-profit youth theatre organization has hired Esther Margaret O'Farrell as its first marketing director.

O'Farrell developed her management and marketing skills at Microsoft.

She has worked in the non-profit sector…MORE

Karma Kreizenbeck has been selected as the new executive director of New Futures.

New Futures is a Burien-based nonprofit that operates programs to assist low-income children and their parents in several Highline apartment complexes.

John Lowe is a man on a mission--His 14th, to be exact.

On April 10, 1945, Lowe was on that 14th mission as a 19-year-old waist gunner aboard a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" over Brandenburg, Germany.

Suddenly, bullets from a…MORE

"A lot of things have happened to me in 50 years," SeaTac resident Garry Treadwell acknowledges with a serious tone.

Three years after graduating from West Seattle High School in 1958, he was a passenger in a car wreck that almost took his…MORE

The city says meat and dairy products will be allowed in the yard waste cart, glass will go in the same recycling container as paper and plastic, and more plastic materials will be eligible for recycling, thanks to new solid waste contracts that…MORE