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Mayor Greg Nickels has released $25,000 from a $350,000 fund he'd frozen that the City Council had set aside to aid renters being displaced by condominium conversions, but housing advocates and city council members say they will push for more if…MORE

(Editor's Note: This was Tim St. Clair's last story for the West Seattle Herald. Tim was a regular bus rider to downtown and about anywhere else. He did this story just a short time ago.)

With gas prices topping $3 per gallon, there are a…MORE

The recent designation of the old John B. Allen School as a city landmark could make it fiscally easier for the Phinney Neighborhood Association to purchase it from the Seattle School District.

The Phinney Association has leased the school…MORE

The Port of Seattle and the King County Housing Authority agreed last week to delay the transfer of the Lora Lake Apartments pending the outcome of environmental testing at the affordable housing complex.

The sale of the property from the…MORE

Des Moines' elegant Landmark on the Sound, an early 20th Century mansion with sweeping views of Puget Sound and Maury Island, hosted this year's Poverty Bay Wine Festival events Feb. 29 to March 2.

All proceeds benefit community service…MORE

Starbucks is coming to SeaTac.

A drive-through Starbucks will be part of a mixed-use development across International Boulevard from the South 154th Street light rail station.

SeaTac City Council members approved on Feb. 26 approved…MORE

The Highline School District's proposed upgraded policies on sex and AIDS education were introduced at the board's Feb.

Tim St. Clair, 57, long-serving Robinson Newspapers reporter, died Feb. 25 at Virginia Mason's Bailey Boushay House where he had been moved earlier in the day from Swedish Hospital.

Tim, who worked for the West Seattle Herald/White Center…MORE

Burien council members gave a unanimous thumbs down Feb. 25 to a bill designed to help Seattle offset the additional costs of providing services if that city annexes North Highline.

The unofficial rejection of House Bill 1139, which is…MORE

King County Council Chairwoman Julia Patterson plans to organize Highline community leaders across city boundaries to lobby for more services for the area.

"The time to talk about it is over-it is time to do something," Patterson declared…MORE