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If you live within a few blocks of 53rd and Alki avenues Southwest, the beautiful sites and sounds of sunsets and waves have yielded to a crescendo of nasty sounds and smells of construction due to "that pump station's" upgrade.

The 22-…MORE

Federal Way residents may have to wait up to 12 more months before crews began constructed the long-awaited mixed use multi-plex in the heart of downtown.

"Symphony" builder, United Properties of Vancouver, BC, last week formally asked the…MORE

A reader, Rick Hughes, writes to ask, "Why does this city have so many businesses close down. I just learned we are losing the Roadhouse Grill next Sunday.

The Fourteenth Annual West Seattle Garden Tour took place from 9am to 5pm on Sunday July 20th. It was a beautiful sunny day, yet not too warm to visit all nine gardens on the tour. Each garden was designed to spend time in, showing a a high level…MORE

The American Legion Grand Parade was a big hit in West Seattle on Saturday July 19th as usual. Throngs of parade watchers lined California Avenue to see more than 70 entries pass by. 1st Place float went to Port Orchard who put over 3000 hours…MORE

A construction worker was trapped in a trench at a construction site on July 16th . The trench was approximately 15 feet deep. A vacuum truck from City Light helped remove the dirt as workers shored up the trench around him. The trapped man was…MORE

Paper or plastic? Beginning in January either choice could cost you.

The City Council's committee decision on a proposal to tax all disposable shopping bags is scheduled for July 22. If approved, Seattle consumers would be charged a 20-…MORE

If one were to get on the 6:45 a.m. ferry to Vashon from Fauntleroy, they may notice an abnormal excess of adolescents present for such an early hour of the day.

What many don't know is that most of these unexpected adolescents are…MORE

Beside a pile of torn asphalt, water bubbles up muddy, pooling in fresh dirt.

The guy running the excavator, the green backhoe, "hooked" a water line while demolishing the old pedestal for the Alki Statue of Liberty last Tuesday.

At 8 a.m. on July 7, the number 56 bus to downtown Seattle leaves the corner of 61st Avenue Southwest and Alki Avenue, the first stop of its route, with 14 passengers on board. By the third stop, that number has doubled. By the time the bus has…MORE